The excerpt exemplifies the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre" because It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality.
Explanation:
In this excerpt the character is facing his own sudden confrontation to death, this makes the readers face their own mortality by relating to the story an come to think that world and life are unpredictable and everyone in a certain moment would be in the moment before the end.
Katniss was thinking about what Haymitch told her. He said that she just needs to focus on running. Do not try and grab any of the weapons nearby. She was weighing the odds.
