Thresh Case Study

Rough Draft

The significant opinions the audience had of Thresh were affected by the falsified media. Thresh was perceived differently because of the way his personality traits were shown on a screen. Extremely falsified media was beneficial to Thresh throughout the games: where he managed to disprove these results. Thresh’s qualities that were displayed on camera overall falsified his real personality and abilities.

Although Thresh had the benefits of being large and strong, his silence portrayed on camera made him less intimidating and unknown. All through the interviews, Thresh expresses his silent attitude and nature. Thresh barely speaks or acknowledges Caesar, and he attempts making a conversation while he’s getting interviewed. According

to Katniss, Thresh “ignores Caesar’s attempts at banter and answers with a yes or no or just remains silent”(126) from the start to the end of the interviews. Exaggerated silence resulted in the audience considering him to not be interesting and unprepared for the games. Thresh loses an edge by not acting intimidating and not standing out to the capitol. Gradually noticing his abilities to stay alive occurred when all the tributes were put in the arena. He acted silent and unintimidating; nevertheless Thresh had the ability to “bring a rock down hard against Clove’s temple”(287), killing a tribute. At one point towards the end of the games Katniss is eventually, “overwhelmed by her fear of Thresh”(288). Accurately, Thresh was considered, “silent but deadly” (“Thresh” Par1). With silence, Thresh is playing off unfriendliness with the capitol and Caesar.
Instead of using the cameras to get sponsors and kindness from the capitol, Thresh remains quiet and unfriendly on camera.

He does not attempt to be witty or clever during his interview with Caesar, saying little to nothing throughout his interview. Katniss describes his unfriendly nature as “sullen and hostile”(126), stating that he’s inhospitable and doesn’t seem to care: causing the audience to be uninterested in him, losing many sponsors. Although Katniss describes Thresh as sullen and hostile she realizes his true thoughts when her life was on the edge. Katniss along with: Thresh, Foxface, Cato, and Clove, went to a feast where Clove attacked her, and Thresh was the reason for her survival. He stated, “just this one time, I let you go”(288). To allow Katniss another shot at life, he let her go unharmed. As well as showing kindness towards Katniss, he expresses his kindness to Rue: the girl tribute from his district. He saved Katniss because of her and how Katniss treated her. When he spoke to Katniss he referred to Rue as one of the reasons he was letting her go, “For the little girl”(288). To let Katniss go because of her kindness towards Rue showed his friendliness directed at her. Along with unfriendliness and silence on camera, Thresh made no attempt to speak to any of the tributes before the games or make an

alliance.
While training and during the games, Thresh didn’t associate with any of the other tributes, showing little to no interest in the games. Staying by himself during training, Thresh ignored every other tribute. Standing out because of his strong build and his gigantic size, he unexpectedly rejected teaming up with any of the other tributes. Katniss recalled “he rejected the invitation from the careers to join their crowd”(126). Also during training, Thresh didn’t demonstrate any of his skills or attempt to show off; therefore Thresh seemed uninterested in winning the games and getting to return home. Katniss stated, “ he showed little interest in training”(126), proving that he wasn’t going to be a danger in the games because he didn’t want to win. His lack of interest made the Capitol and the tributes not accommodate him and his abilities. Thresh’s loneliness was also accommodated into the games: he wasn’t part of any alliance and was rarely seen. Questioning Thresh’s whereabouts “what’s on the far side of the circle?”(295), Katniss was unaware of the grassy land beyond the hill. “Staying away from the tributes eventually helped him survive”(par.21). Unrealistic media showed that Thresh had little interest in survival, but in reality Thresh had the ability to survive on his own with his own techniques.
Easily with the media, Thresh was considered not intimidating, uninterested, and unable to win the games. Thresh managed to disprove each of these ideas during the games. Surprisingly unaware of these thoughts, Thresh had no concern about what the audience and Capitol considered him to be. Thresh represents falsified media by disproving his unfriendliness, inability to be intimidating, and inability to win the games that was shown on camera, during the games.