The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction book by Suzanne Collins. The main character Katniss Everdeen, is a sixteen -year- old girl who hunts and gathers fruits to fend for her mother and her little sister Prim (Collins 2). She has a best friend, Gale who also like Katniss, has to look for food for his siblings. Katniss loves her sister to an extend she volunteers in taking her place a tribute girl in the reaping festival. She dislikes the regime in District 12 and the killer festivities. She later on meets Paate Mellark who is a boy tribute and was torn between him and Gale.
The story takes place in District 12. Katniss prepares herself to go hunting as her mother and sister depend on her for daily food. She carries her arrow and bow, goes
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Paate is among them and that is when she realizes that he had distracted her on purpose. She knows that he is not trustworthy, but she is not frightened by the findings. She partners with Rue, who had helped her previously in fighting the rich tributes. They together set traps for their enemy and suddenly, Rue gets shot. Katniss kills the tribute boy who had shot Rue (Collins 39). Katniss finds Paate has been injured. She takes care of him, and they realize that they are in love. He recovers, and they start hunting and gathering, all this while, Katniss is thinking of Gale. The rivers dry up, and the other tributes leave in search of water. The two nurse their wounds as the gamekeeper announces that indeed two people can win the game. The novel ends with Katniss not sure of who she …show more content…
She loved her sister so much; she was risking her life by participating in the festive. The book has a good flow, and though it is a science fictional, some encounters can happen in a real life situation, it is commendable.
This book shows that the family unit is very important, and people should stand by each other in every situation, like Katniss stood by Prim in the reaping festive. Katniss, though being just a young girl, she ensured that they had food in the house, and this shows how responsible she was. On a different note, when Katniss remembered the coach’s words, she ignored and went ahead to get the bow and arrow that she missed. She later on suffers from dehydration. Therefore, arrogance is not an admirable trait.
The wealthy people in the Capitol take advantage of the poor and force their children to participate in a deadly festival. In the midst of all this, there are still good people such as Madge in the rich families who still have sympathy and are compassionate.
In the beginning, Katniss is just an ordinary girl in District 12; no one thinks that she could be the strong girl that she was. She was strong and determined to change the situation in the Capitol. Her actions proved that the reaping festive was not only a ceremony but an inhumane
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
The boy tribute that is from her district is Peeta Mellark who she knew from long ago. Peeta confessed to the public that he loves her and that begins their friendship. Throughout the games, she watches as tributes are killed and a young girl named Rue is murdered. When this happens, Katniss kills Rue’s attacker. This is the first time that she has ever killed a person, so she takes it very hard. Rue was not only Katniss’s ally but her friend, she was Prim’s age and reminded her of her sister. So, when Rue was killed it struck Katniss deeply. By the end of the games she has come to love Peeta back and it comes down to the two of them. They refuse to kill each other, so they decided to eat berries that are poisonous but the capitol has to have a victor, so the capitol announces that they are both victors. When she did this, it was a direct punch to the capitol and it ignited a spark in the people, that began the process of a revolution. After she returns home, she realizes what her actions caused and that is the real reason that she went there. She was destined to be the Mockingjay, or the leader of the revolution against the capitol. She realizes that she is the only way that the people will unite and fight to
The Hunger Games By: Olivia Frantz. Katniss Everdeen: Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the book, The Hunger Games. Katniss has long, dark hair and a slim figure. Katniss is known for playing a brave role when she is selected to compete in the games where she is made to fight for her life in an arena with 23 other tributes.
This first book introduces the fight to the end battle known as the Hunger Games. This battle takes one male and one female between the ages of twelve and eighteen from each of the twelve districts, totaling twenty-four “tributes” (Newsmakers, Detroit:Gale. The competitors battle to the final death, hoping to stay alive and reap benefits for their respective district. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are the main characters and they are forced to fight for District twelve. Katniss’ little sister, Primrose who is nicknamed “Prim”, is originally drawn to fight, but Katniss volunteers in her place.
Katniss learned that it was worth it to take her sisters place because her young and small sister would not have stood a chance. This lesson is important to the series itself because if
The Hunger Games by Susan Collins is a slap in the face for society, essentially a wakeup call. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl that volunteers as tribute for Prim, her little sister and is the focus of The Hunger Games. The book is set in Panem a dystopian society with twelve districts and an over ruling power, the Capitol. The Capitol has created a punishment for a rebellion that occurs 74 years earlier, called the reaping. Every year there is a reaping, the reaping requires each of the twelve districts to gather and watch as two of their children are picked to compete in the most dangerous game; the hunger games. Each child sent is in a competition for their life, one will survive. After the reaping the tributes are sent to the Capitol where they are introduced to the public. The tributes are treated like celebrities, interview and forced to play their best angle to the media. See any similarities between 21st century America and the world Katniss lives in? Panem and
The plot follows Katniss Everdeen, a girl who is selected to participate in Panem’s annual Hunger Games alongside Peeta Mellark, after
“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.
In the beginning, Katniss is living the hard life of her district. She goes to school and hunts so that her family has food. She has a younger sister named Prim and a mother, however it is time for the reaping which is when the Capitol picks names out of a bucket for one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts to participate in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death tournament where the winner gets fame and fortune. Prim gets chosen to participate in the games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place(22). A boy from their district named Peeta also gets chosen and Katniss realizes that he had given her bread when she didn’t have food for her family. They go to the Capitol and meet their mentor, Haymitch(56), who helps them train, then they go into the arena and battle. Peeta joins up with some Careers, children that trained for the Hunger Games all their lives, and tries to win but then he betrays them. The Gamemakers make a rule change and say that two tributes from the same district can win together so Katniss finds Peeta and helps him because he has been injured. After they are the only two people left the Gamemakers change the rule back to force Katniss and Peeta to fight each other, rather than fight, Katniss takes some poisonous berries, called Nightlock, she found in the arena and gives half of
Katniss Everdeen, the main character is seen in an incessant state of anguish, worrying about her beloved younger sister Prim, without the slightest concern for her own welfare, an idiosyncrasy that robustly contradicts with the typical perfect and flawless main character portrayed in almost all action/adventure films. The controversial scene then ends with the fearless Katniss Everdeen taking her sister’s place and volunteering for her in the Hunger Games after she had been conscripted. There are even ceaseless ties made between District 12 and World War II concentration camps ranging from the rag like clothing to the groups of hopeless children with guns aimed at their face, further deliberating Katniss’s initial mother like and selfish instincts when preferring to worry about her sister in an environment that can be related to a significant historical atrocity. As a set-up for the rest of the film, this sequence plays an important role in constructing the underlying theme of the film as a whole. The fact that Katniss finds her own empathy, sense of caring and compassion and her journey of going from a un-trusting and instinctive girl to a strong moraled, selfless woman that would rather die than take an innocent human life. An
Katniss Everdeen is an adolescent girl who has been through a lot, emotionally and physically. She is not only a girl from District 12 but she is a girl who takes on challenges that she is not
she lands herself in some very challenging situations. On one occasion she comes face to face with career tributes and manages to kill two of them with some clever tactics. The servicing career tributes latter become Her toughest competition. After the incident she teams up with a girl named Rue from district 11 together they plan an attack on the Careers. Rue starts a fire to district the tributes while katniss located their supplies and destroyed them. Although the plan was successful Rue was killed while executing her part of the scheme. Katniss goes on to find the other tribute that came with her from her district and helps him out, because of their relationship the capital changes the rules and allows two survivors to return instead of one . in order to speed up the games the district invites the tributes to a feast where they find items the they need. Katniss decides to go to the feast which leaded to an altercation between her and the career tributes and eventual the
In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the main character and protagonist is 16 year old Katniss Everdeen, a strong and selfless young woman who is far more mature than her age suggests. As the main provider for her family after her father died, Katniss had to become responsible and resourceful at a young age, which forced her to participate in rebellious behavior in order to keep her family alive. She is an unselfish and protective character, putting herself in danger in order to keep the ones she loves safe, especially for her little sister Primrose. Even after the pain and hardships she has had to go through not only in the games, but in her life, Katniss maintains her
Katniss is the protagonist of the novel. She is a tough, self-sufficient, extremely loyal girl whose childhood was cut short by responsibility. After her father died, her mother sank into a deep depression, so it was up to Katniss to feed the family. One evening, she was going through others' trash in desperation when Peeta Mellark purposefully burned bread from his family's bakery and gave it to her. She feels like she owes him for that action, because after that she realizes the forest will be how to feed her family. She and her friend Gale regularly hunt wild game and gather food, selling some and keeping some for their families. Katniss dearly loves her younger sister Prim, so much so that she volunteers to go to the Hunger Games in Prim's place. Though Katniss could very easily feel bitter towards her more sheltered sister, instead she is fiercely protective of her. During the Games, this protectiveness transfers to another young tribute named Rue who Katniss grows very close too and mentors as she were an older sister to Rue.
The book is about Katniss, a sixteen year old girl, who lives in district 12 with her mother and her sister, Prim. Each year, the Hunger Games are held, and a boy and a girl from each district are chosen to fight to the death. Prim is chosen but Katniss volunteers to take the place of her in the game. Peeta is chosen as the boy from District 12. The majority of the book takes place in the Arena designed by the Gamemakers. The main goal of the games is to kill the others and be the last one standing. The winner and their