In the novel, The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian young adult book that is based in Panem that is divided into twelve districts. Each year the districts have to send a boy and a girl into an arena to fight to the death. The novel’s protagonist is Katniss, who lives in the poorest district. Katniss makes the audience think of the important ideas of bravery, societal class and love. An important idea that Katniss makes the audience think of is bravery. Every day since she was sixteen she has been going outside the wall to hunt for her family. When her father died and her mother slipped into deep depression she was the only one who could feed her family as her younger sister Prim was only seven. This bravery is shown …show more content…
Katniss is similar to Martin Luther King Jr as he was brave when he expressed his opinion on the inequality between the races. Even when he was faced with the idea of jail time he still tried to fight for equal rights. Katniss and Martin Luther King Jr were both brave and stood up for the people and things they believed in. In society, bravery is essential in order to make changes in our world for the better. Another important idea that Katniss makes the audience think of is Love. She helps the audience see this because the main driving point of the novel is Katniss’s love for Prim. This is the reason she volunteered for her at the reaping and why she is in the Hunger Games in the first place. This love is shown when she buys Prim her goat, “She (Prim) was so excited she started crying and laughing all at once.” This tells us that Katniss was willing to spend her money on a goat for Prim that she could’ve spent on something else that would’ve given them better prospects or saved the money. Instead, she chose to give her sister something that she could look after, love and give her lasting memories of fun and happiness. Katniss also shows love for Peeta when she nurses him back to health in the cave. Even when she thought that their love was fictional she still fought to get to him and helped save his life when he was
Katniss needs to relate to the citizens of the Capitol. Fitting in and trying to get sponsors to like her was a challenge. This is the stage where the hero gets a taste of what the adventure is going to be like. Katniss gets a feel of the competition when she is training in that room with all of the other competitors. We feel very uncertain again when we see how unprepared she is compared to
The 16-year-old bravely volunteered for her sister Prim in the Games, risking her chance of survival for her sisters. This shows great strength of character as “In District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct,” implies that Katniss not only has a deep level of love for her sister, but also an extraordinary level of strength. This quote clearly highlights the main act of strength portrayed by Katniss as she is risking her life for someone else’s. From the very moment Katniss volunteered, she had absolutely no self-confidence and she straight away told herself “I can’t win. Prim must know that in her heart.
Katniss is a kind girl. She does not like killing, and she saves everyone who is not enough bad. Also, she loves all her friends and families so much. She pushes herself into the game for her sister, she does not want her sister got killed in the game. In the games or out the games, Peeta does numerous bad things to her, but she forgives him finally. In addition, she is a person with easy-going and cool attitude. In the story, Peeta got shame by his family, he threw all the bread on the muddy ground. When the pigs are eating bread, she goes forward and picks the food up. She does not care about the muddy bread too much, she inly knows it can save her life, which is a awesome character, I
Like in any typical hero movie, there is a call that the protagonist must answer. In The Hunger Games, Katniss hears her calling for adventure when her sister, Prim is drawn to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Knowing that Prim is definitely not suited for violence, Katniss 's instincts kick in and she volunteers for her sister instantly. This call for
Katniss was the kind of person that put the greater good in first place. She knew what was right and wrong. She never went with the status quo. Her dad was killed in a mine explosion and her mom was a little crazy. This forced Katniss to become an adult at an early age. She learned the meaning of family and did not take that lightly. Katniss learned to hunt and catch food, so that her family could survive.
Within The Hunger Games Chapter 1, a novel excerpt written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen is confronted with the selection of her younger sister in the Hunger Games, an event wherein life is treated as a privilege and adolescents are forced to kill each other in order to survive the vicious ordeal. Throughout literature, protagonists are portrayed in different ways, contrasting in how effectively they fulfill their roles as a prominent figure in their respective stories. Consequently, Katniss is the most effective protagonist due to characterization. She has an eudaemonic nature in regards to her loved ones, as shown in, “How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?” She has an opportunity to escape
“We had to save you because you're the Mockingjay, Katniss, says Plutarch. While you live, the revolution lives” (Collins). Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games is a complex character who epitomizes the archetype of a hero, however, she also shatters the mold by rebelling against the capital and endangering her whole family. She starts out as a hero to her family, especially her sister, and then becomes the symbol of strength to everyone. Katniss sacrifices herself by volunteering to join the Hunger Games in place of her sister, it is a game of survival where a boy and a girl from each district are forced to fight the other members of other districts to the death. By going out of her ordinary world and preparing to join a game where her life could be taken, she fits right into the archetype of a hero. Her bow and arrow, the weapon that only she can wield, will be the only things to help her survive. Despite these heroic qualities, Katniss makes an erroneous decision and blunder mistakes that shows the reader the flip side of Katniss.
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.
Katniss protects her loved ones and friends no matter what the circumstance. By doing this she demonstrates bravery and selflessness, both characteristics that make people fall in love with her because she is a hero. “My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter.
She shows that actions are more powerful than words when Rue dies because she puts her head in her lap, bushes her fingers through her hair, and she sings to her until she was completely dead. After Rue was completely dead Katniss also laid her down and covered her in beautiful flowers. Katniss did that to show President Snow that little kids should not be apart of the Hunger Games and that they should be able to live a long and happy life without worrying if they were going to get chose or not to be forced to fight. This scene that katniss did had a big impact on District 12 and it also shows that her actions can be more powerful than
Katniss Everdeen was a hero, but just like any other hero, she faced many challenges. During the Hunger Games Katniss was faced with multiple challenge. She experienced things such as knowing where she stood with someone she thought she could trust,the death of someone close, and the responsibility of caring for someone else.
During the game Katniss have to pretend that she loves Peeta, but inside she knows that her real love was Gale and that he was waiting for her. It was hard for all of them because Gale was outside seeing how Peeta kiss his girlfriend, and for Peeta because he knows that Katniss was in love with another boy and not of him, and to Katniss because maybe she was with Gale, but passing time with Peeta and look how he tries to saved her life make her get confused about her feelings so she focused in what is good for her, and not of what she real want.
In part two of The Hunger Games Katniss signifies her heroic qualities of love, affection, and bravery
Katniss is a teenager trying to provide for her family by hunting with the skills her father taught her before he passed away, an event that changed her when she was a child. She doesn't want to rebel despite how she feels about the capitol. Katniss hunts to get food and money for her family to survive although it is considered illegal. she is shown to have a bad relationship with her mother because of how her mother reacted to her husband's death. Katniss is shown to love her sister very much this is shown very early on in the book when it says "My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim's warmth", that being said she doesn't have the best relationship with her sister's cat Buttercup and she just thinks of him as an extra mouth to feel "Even though it was years ago, I think he still remembers how I tried to drown him in a bucket when Prim brought him
I bought our food at the market and cooked it as best I could and tried to keep Prim and myself looking presentable.” (Collins 6), which shows how Katniss consciously makes decisions with Prim in mind. Katniss tries her best to keep Prim out of harm’s way as shown when she says “I protect Prim in every way I can, but I'm powerless against the reaping” (Collins 3), which shows how Katniss’ perspective is focused on