Katniss=Dog?

"All I can think is how unjust the whole thing is, the Hunger Games. Why am i hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate? The longer the interview goes on, the more fury seems to rise to the surface,until I'm literally spitting out answers at him." (117.Collins)

Before the Hunger Game actually occurs, Katniss must go through an interview for the broadcast of the show. Haymitch convinces her to "gain favors" from the audience so that she could be supported from the watchers to stay tuned for Hunger Games. Haymitch encourages Katniss to show the audience a good feature/ personality about herself. Eventually he decided she should be "humble" for the interview. But Katniss refuses to show any kind of positive attitude for the interview, because she doesn't feel comfortable and rather angry that she has to obey and sit down like a "trained dog" in front of people she doesn't even like.Katniss also wants her privacy about her life back home from people that could possibly cause her death and have already decided her future. She has the temptation of exposing her true feelings of the Hunger Game, but is aware that she can not do that because she would put not only her, but also her family back at District 12, danger. The fact that she is restricted from freedom of speech on television shows that this is a Utopian society, because the government is not only controlling what is shown to the public in television, but very strict to what is said against the government. Not only do they control what is broadcasted, but also authorize what the speaker can or can't say to everyone. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to expose the Hunger Games and their horrors on the interviews. I would assume that a lot of people in the game are tempted to share how they really feel to the world, but can't because the Panem figureheads are constantly watching and certainly capable to punish anyone who disobeys them.