How Does Sacrifice Affects Katniss

Throughout the novel you can see her other acts of care, such as when she takes 12 year old Rue under her wing in the middle of the games, and also how she refuses to leave Peeta when he is injured. “I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she’s a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim” (pg 201). In this quote the author Suzanne Collins is showing that Katniss is teaming up with Rue, rather than killing her, which is what would get her farther in the Games but she doesn’t because she reminds her of Prim, and wants to protect her.

In the novel Katniss’ intelligence contributes to her qualities that make her a hero. This is conveyed through her ability to outsmart the other tributes during the course of the games. This is made evident to the reader when she says-“ I position the knife in the groove… the nets bursts open like an egg.”- The use of simile allows the reader to imagine how Katniss’ let the tracker-jacker go. This is further seen during the Games where Katniss is highly aware of her surroundings. - “The bow and arrow is my weapon… Sometimes, if I've wounded an animal with an arrow, it's better to get a knife into it, too, before I approach it.”- This is made evident when Katniss is able to track and hunt down things in a protective and secretive way. The use of an explicit metaphor is used when describing her motives which demonstrate her thought processes. Thus it can be seen that Katniss empowers the qualities of a hero through her intelligence.

Katniss is thinking. " Where is she?What are they doing to her? Prim I cry out ." Prim!"only another agonizing scream answers me . How did she get here?Why is she part of the games? "

Katniss has the ability to realize that it's not the boy from district she's mad at it's the capitol.

Then, Katniss’ love for Prim is so strong that she is willing to sacrifice herself for her sister, something that not many others in the district would do for their family members. Later on, Katniss winning the games is the biggest reason the quote is important. When Katniss enters the games and sees a bow and arrow which is her specialty. She tries to see if she can get it, but when Peeta is distracting her she has a late start and she doesn’t get it. She believes she has no chance to come out of the games alive without a bow and arrow.

Alternatively, Katniss coincides, and grabs poisonous berries and hands a few to Peeta while keeping a few to herself. “One, two, three” Katniss breathed insinuating they would poison themselves, but a voice from outside the portal commanded them to stop, allowing them to both win. This shows that with the odds against her favor, she still wasn’t planning on giving in so easily. Allowing her and Peeta to win and take the train back home, staring out of the window, Peeta questions, “so what happens when we get back?” and her response is “I don’t know, I guess we try to forget.” With Katniss wanting to forget, it shows that she wasn’t doing any of this for the glory or fame, but for her sister Prim and all of the other districts, she started the games for her sister, and ended it by going against the Capitol.

A sixteen year old girl who has been reaped for the purpose of fighting against her fellow ‘tributes’ in a game show put on for the people of Panem. In The Hunger Games society, the higher class people live in the Capitol and wear eccentric costumes, while the rest of the population is diminished to animalistic Districts whose sole purposes are to supply the Capital. The people of the Districts are taken for granted and treated like animals by the Capital, until they are brought to the public eye by being reaped. Once in the Games, Katniss fights not only the other tributes but herself and her government system. In the end she defines herself by winning the games with a fellow tribute which simultaneously triggers new hope of a rebellion against her

Cinna helps Katniss to see her strengths, and this is what motivates her to survive the Hunger

The first mentor present in Katniss’ life is her sister, Primrose. When Primrose gets reaped, Katniss steps in and makes a sacrifice to save her sister. From that point on, Primrose becomes the driving force behind Katniss’ will to survive. When Katniss says goodbye to her family, Prim asks Katniss to try to win, and Katniss promises to try. Primrose has hope for Katniss’ return. Primrose’s faith in Katniss is the main reason Katniss decides to fight for her life and, eventually, win.

Katniss and Peeta were going to sacrifice their own lives by eating the poisonous berries and dying together. I made the berries red as this colour can be associated with romance, friendship, anger and courage. Katniss and Peeta have to withhold an image of romance for the Capitol so that they can receive sponsors, they also share a strange friendship throughout the games. Lastly, they would be filled with anger over obvious reasons and would have had to be very courageous to be able to decide that they would rather both sacrifice their lives then kill one

The portrayal of heroines contain both differences and similarities. Across ‘The Hunger Games’ directed by Gary Ross, ‘Stormdancer’ by Jay Kristoff, ‘V for Vendetta’ directed by James Mc Teigue and ‘First Rider’s’ Call by Kristen Britain the respective heroines all contain similarities and differences between the other heroines. These similarities and differences show the variety that a heroine can be portrayed as. All of my selected texts portray the main characters (Katniss Everdeen, Kitsune Yukiko, Evey Hammond and Karigan G’ladheon respectively) as compassionate and caring for those important to them. Karigan demonstrates her compassion when she decides to search for her fellow rider Ty and her horse Condor, “She would help, but not until she sought out Condor and Ty and learned of

Not just love but, we also learn that from her eyes Peeta symbolizes hope, Peeta is the one who helped save her family from starvation by giving her the bread when she was a child. He also saved the lives of Katniss and her mother and sister, Prim. While Katniss is grateful to him, Katniss also feels a sense of obligation to him for his sympathy and

The next scene is a heavy contrast to the first. In this scene we see Katniss hunting for food for her family and in doing so, assuming a role more commonly associated with males. In the lead up to the games she poses as a girl madly in love with the male tribute from her district in order to gain sponsors and attention from the Capital. She demonstrates intelligence in doing so because she knows that she is more likely to be accepted by the capital if she adopts a more feminine persona. It is only after the Games begin that Katniss demonstrates her natural talents, those more typically associated with a male character. She uses her hunting skills to her advantage by catching food and killing people when necessary. She also exhibits a wide range of knowledge which helps her to survive during the Games. Towards the end of the film, it has been made clear to the audience that whilst Katniss assumes a traditional female role when with her family or when it benefits her, her true character closely follows the characteristics typically seen in a traditional male gender

Katniss was always very close to her little sister Prim. Prim meant the world to her and she always did her best to protect her. Katniss loved Prim so much that she even put her own life before hers when she “stepped up to take Prim’s place”(24) as tribute. Katniss’ father was a very influential on her. He taught her how the woods could provide for her but also that they could be dangerous. Even after he had died he was still important to her. After her dad past, Katniss’ mother became drastically depressed and was unable to provide for her children. Katniss never truly forgave her for abandoning them in their time of need. With her mother in a comatose state Katniss decided she would have to protect and provide for Prim. All the hunting, gathering and buying of tesserae was for Prim’s sake. To keep them out of the community home

Many themes occur throughout the story of The Hunger Games, but I have found none more prominent than Sacrifice. From Katniss sacrificing herself for her sister, to Katniss and Peeta being willing to die for eachother at the end of the games, this book is just riddled with sacrifice. It seems like the story challenges you to think what are you truly willing to put on the line at any given moment. For example, the entire crux of the story is itself a sacrifice, the game itself is a combination of children who were forcefully sacrificed by each district. With these ideals so ingrained into their society, it is obvious as to why sacrifice plays such a huge role in the story. Furthermore, sacrifice is shown again in the beginning when when sacrifices