The human mind is a very powerful thing. It is able to pursuit different things into another mind. It can deceive whoever and however it wants. This happens in everyday. Everyone uses their own mind for different purposes. In the book The Hunger Games, by Susan Collins, it shows how the mind can put an image or a thought into someone. Not everything is the same inside and out. This is evident in the way that Cinna dresses Katniss after the games, how Katniss smiles to the camera, and how the game makers cut out the conversation with Rue and Katniss.
Cinna, the prep team head, shows the audience a side of Katniss that is not truly her. At the end of the games, Katniss is interviewed, and Cinna presents her a certain way. The way she is dressed and how she is groomed is all part of a plan that Cinna seems to have.
“My hair’s loose, held back by a simple hair band. The makeup rounds and fills out the sharp angles of my face. A clear polish coats my nails. The sleeveless dress is gathered at my ribs, not my waist, largely eliminating any help the padding would have given my figure. The hem falls just to my knees. Without heels, you can see my true statue. I look, very simple, like a girl. A young one. Fourteen at the most. Innocent. Harmless. Yes, it is shocking that Cinna has pulled this off when you remember that I’ve just won the games.”
(Collins, 355).

The Hunger Games change Katniss immensely. She saw death, causes death, been on the line of her life, makes many lies, but Cinna tries to make it look as though she has not been damaged by it at all and that it has not affected her. On the outside, he made her look like a young girl; innocent and harmless. He tries to make her look like something the audience would have expected. Katniss is shocked because Cinna has pulled this look off, remembering she has just won the games and thinking of what she has just