Katniss Everdeen is the main character from the novel and is from District twelve, one of the poorest districts in Panem. "District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety (page 6)." Katniss lives with just her mother and sister after her father died in a fire and she is left to take care of her family by herself, as they are constantly on the edge of starvation. "But there is always food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion (page 5).”
In this novel, Katniss who possesses the ability to hunt with great ease and knowledge, is called to save her sister Prim's life, when she is announced as a tribute. When two people chosen from each district are to participate as ‘tributes’ in the Hunger Games, Katniss does something completely unheard of for
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So she willingly accepts the dangers of the journey she is to embark on and not refuse the call to adventure as she does everything in her willpower to keep her sister from harm, even if that includes sacrificing herself.
From each district the each team gets a mentor to give advice for survival, the mentors were former winners of the hunger games, called victors. Haymitch was a hunger games victor, and when Katniss and Peeta first meet Haymitch, he comes across of being an alcoholic and seems like he is not really all that interested in being their mentor. Throughout the novel you can see him change his ways and become more interested in helping them win. He starts giving them practical advice on how to survive during the hunger games as well as teaching them how to gain sponsors.
When Katniss enters the Capitol of Panem train for the Hunger Games she is taken into a whole different world. Katniss spends most of her time there training and attending public events in preparation for the hunger
The story revolves around the series' rebel heroine, Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, formerly known as North America. In Panem, the Hunger Games are an annual event in which young boys and girls fight to the death in a televised battle.
Katniss Everdeen is 16 in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, she’s 17-18 in Catching Fire and MockingJay, and 33 in the MockingJay epilogue. Her occupations, Hunter, Victor from the 74th Hunger Games, Tribute from the 75th Hunger Games, Soldier, and MockingJay. The MockingJay is the leader of the rebellion. Her home is Victor Village in district 12, before she won The Hunger Games she lived in a small house where she had to
A place where anything can happen, waiting for you, ready to attack without making a sound and kill you. This will be the stomping grounds of the twenty-four tributes, which will battle to the end, until one tribute is alone standing to become the victor. In the novel The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins. Panem is described as having a cruel government. The Capital uses children from the ages of twelve through eighteen to battle to death. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old. She took the place of her sister Primrose as tribute to fight the bloody battle in hopes of winning and becoming the victor so she may return home to protect Prim from unseen mishaps. Katniss will have many challenges in her way, if she wants to win and come home to protect her family from starvation. She will have to work through her impulsive, mistrust, and self-doubt to stay alive and make victor.
This book shows the life of Katniss Everdeen after winning the Hunger Games an event that is sponsored by the Capital, where children are put into an arena to fight and kill each other to survive, and how her life was affected while in the games and after as well. She also has to relive the horrors of the games because her and Peeta Mellark fellow winner of the games have to go on the Victory Tour around all the districts so the Capitol can keep the terror of the games alive. Then later it is announced that, “‘on the seventy-fifth anniversary… the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors’”(Collins 175) which meant that Katniss and Peeta along with the other victors would have to go back into the Hunger Games again and fight to win. The book is set in a futuristic place called Panem. Which according the website Shmoop.com Panem is “...a country that - after a series of vague disasters - rose from the ashes of North America… [and] it’s all pretty post-apocalyptic”(Shmoop Editorial Team) where people are put into different districts. While the more wealth people get to live in the Capitol where they do not worry about starvation and everything else that the people in the districts go
Every rebellion begins with a spark, and that spark is Katniss Everdeen. The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzann Collins and it starts with a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who is hunting illegally in the woods with her friend Gale. She has to do this because her father died in a mining accident and she is now the head of her family. Katniss lives with her mother and younger sister Prim in a place called District 12. There are twelve districts and the Capitol is the place that is in charge of all of these districts. This story takes place in a future United States, now named Panem due to a large rebellion that occurred years ago, that is known as the “Dark Days “and President Snow is the man in charge of everything and everyone.
The next mentor in Katniss’ life is Haymitch. At first, we think Haymitch is useless, as he is always drunk, but, as soon as they get to the Capitol, he proves himself. Haymitch is constantly reminding Katniss to “Play the Game” because he has hope that she will be able to appeal to the public and get sponsors, which will be the key to winning. Haymitch is the one who lays out
In Suzanne Collin’s trilogy The Hunger Games, the story focuses on the journey and struggles of sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen within the dystopian society of Panem. Throughout the books, Katniss is torn between choosing to fight the injustice and tyranny that has long been a problem for the people of Panem, or to give in to the power of the Capitol in order to keep herself and more importantly her family safe. In the end she rises up and without really intending to, becomes the hero that has long been needed in order to create change in her society. Katniss is like a modern day Robin Hood, because she stands up for and ultimately leads the common people in a revolution against the oppressive Capitol, despite it putting her and her loved ones at risk for the greater good.
Katniss lives in District 12, where there are old wood houses set amongst large mountains that are full of coal mines. The main character in The Hunger Games is Katniss. She's athletic, brave, good and smart.
In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, there is a new post-apocolyptic country created called Panem which used to be North America, that is divided into 13 districts. The main character of the novel is a girl named Katniss Everdeen from District 12 who is put to the challenge of competing against 23 other girls and boys to the death in the annual Hunger Games. The Capitol, is who rules the 13 districts. They create unfair and strict policies, which once cause the districts to rise up and rebel.
The main character, Katniss, was a girl who lived with her mother and younger sister in a poor coal mining community. The Hunger Games separated their communities into twelve districts, that were categorized by the resource they supplied for the government, also called the Capital. As opposed to Divergent, the Capital took the majority of the resources such as food and clean water, where the districts relied completely on the government for survival. Katniss was forced into the hunger games, a televised fight to the death of the district children, where she gained popularity and eventually inspired the districts to rebel against the government. Though she does fight, she is more of a propaganda icon than a
Three important qualities that Katniss Everdeen has in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are: the ability to survive, the ability to listen to advice and her compassion for others. These qualities affected both Peeta Mellark and Rue. This story is set in the future in an evil totalitarian led country of Panem, ruled by the Capitol, where two teenagers (tributes) are sacrificed every year from each of the districts in a ballot to fight one another to the death in the Hunger Games. These games are broadcast on TV to all the districts to warn them from rebelling against the government and are streamed to the Capitol as a form of entertainment. Katniss volunteers to save her younger sister Prim and Peeta is selected by ballot.
The Hunger Games is a movie and a book that follows Katniss Everdeen and takes place in a fictional nation of Panem, which consists of twelve districts, all of which are centered around The Capitol. She enters, participates in, and wins the Hunger Games Tournament, a tournament where 24 contestants are forced into a vast arena to battle to the death.
The country of Panem is divided in to thirteen districts and a Capitol. Traveling between the districts is forbidden, making communication and knowledge about other districts limited. Government’s totalitarian rule over the country tightened after the rebellion of the districts, thus demonstrating the absolute power that the government have over the people of Panem. The Capitol passed a new law forcing the districts to participate in “The Hunger Games”. A yearly blood sport, where two tributes— a male and a female— are forced to fight to the death. To further torment and demonstrate their absolute power over the people of the districts, the government forces the districts to treat the Games as a national holiday. The story’ protagonist, Katniss is a girl from district twelve. District twelve is arguably the poorest district of the nation of Panem. Her father died in a mine explosion when the protagonist was eleven years of age. Being the eldest of two children, she was forced to replace the bread winner. She learned how to hunt for food in the forest —which is forbidden— at an early age to feed her sister Prim and her mother. Her sister is then chosen to participate in The Hunger Games, which Katniss volunteers to replace her place as tribute.
Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl who has grown up in the Seam of the coal mining region, District 12, in the nation of Panem and the long time love interest of her fellow tribute, Peeta Mellark. Katniss is described as small in stature yet muscular due to lack of food for the majority of her life. She was one of the smallest tributes in the Hunger Games in which she participated. She has long, straight dark hair which she wears in her single trademark braid down her back. Additionally, she has grey eyes, and olive colored skin which is the traditional look of the people who live in the seam as she does. Katniss Everdeen became the primary provider at the age of eleven of her family after her father died in a mining explosion. She
In the book The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl, living under a totalitarian government that demands a boy and a girl to be sacrificed each year. The children are sent into an arena to fight to the death. Katniss is chosen and against all odds she wins, by an act of rebellion, along with the boy tribute from her district. During her time in the arena she helps to fan the flames a rebellion against the government, putting herself and others in danger. However, she ultimately overthrows it.