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District Twelve Katniss Quotes With Page Numbers

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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 …show more content…

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

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