Katniss Everdeen's Survival

In the novel, the Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen does whatever it takes to survive in the Hunger Games. Katniss battles against twenty-three other children from the twelve districts along with hunger, cold, and sickness to stay alive in the games. Katniss must use many of her attributes to win the Hunger Games, such as her resourcefulness, caring, and determination.

The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins delineates that there are times when people believe that all hope is lost but only those who are strong will persevere through their darkest moments. Suzanne Collins portrays the theme throughout the novel with the main protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, as she struggles to endure her daily life and the annual Hunger Games. Collins displays the prodigious amount of persistence of Katniss Everdeen and her comrade, Peeta Mellark, which allows them to survive throughout the Hunger Games.

In the novel “The Hunger Games” Suzanne Collins conveys the qualities of a hero through the main character Katniss Everdeen. The novel is based around a dystopian nation, in which is placed in Panem. Through which a boy and a girl from each district must take part in ‘The Hunger Games’ where they have to fight to the death, until there is one survivor. Katniss subsequently evolves as a significant hero portraying the heroic qualities such as selflessness, identity change and intelligence. Selflessness is shown as she puts others before herself, her identity changes as she has to put up a brave face, and intelligence is displayed as her strategies progress in the games.

“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.

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

An unknown person once said, “When we read books, we don’t fall in love with the characters appearances. We fall in love with their thoughts, their words, and their actions. We fall in love with their souls.” In the dystopian novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, this is exactly what happens, Katniss moves the readers by having such characteristic and skills to be able to survive. Katniss’s characteristics, of being caring, having a determined personality, and her intelligence in survival skills, all help support the theme of Katniss being able to survive.

‘The Hunger Games’ written by Suzanne Collins (2008) describes a narrative where there are 12 districts that came from the ruins of North America that is called Panem, 3 of the districts are favoured by the Capitol, the rest of the districts are really poor. Each year a male and female ranging from 12 to 18 must go to the Capitol’s arena where they fight to the death reality television show called ‘The Hunger Games’. The text describes a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in the dystopic district (District 12). Throughout the novel she makes friends and enemies. Despite being portrayed as a reality television event in Panem, there is mostly nothing realistic about the hunger games. In the novel the arena is altered and prepared with

The Hunger Games Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins has very deep characterization. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist, was the winner of the previous Hunger Games. She is picked for the Quarter Quell, which picks winners of past Hunger Games to fight each other again in a new arena. Her and Peeta are chosen again. Katniss is a character who cares about others but will do whatever it takes to make sure the ones she cares about are safe. This is shown on page 189 when she says "But I have a mission. No, it's more than a mission. It's my dying wish. Keep Peeta alive." In this quote, Katniss shows how much she cares about Peeta by putting the safety of his front of her own. Peeta is tough selfless person who cares about Katniss and her well being.

In The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen is a teenage girl who lives in an impoverished country of Panem. After he father passed away in a tragic mining explosion, she learned to fill in her father’s shoes. This made family her only priority as her mother was in no state to supper their family. Besides her caring nature for others, during The Hunger Games, Katniss develops a competitive attitude. As she grew up with no father and having little income coming from her mother, there would nights where Katniss and her family would go to sleep on an empty.

In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss, who is the main character is place to compete against twenty three other kids both boys and girls in order to survive. Katniss is a strong sixteen year old girl, who is far more mature than her age. Katniss is the provider in her family, which consist of herself, her mother and her little sister Prim. She is very protective over her sister and volunteers to take her place in the hunger games. Katniss is the person her family depends on for everything, but in a game like the hunger games, where life is at stake, and someone has to compete against others in order to survive, it is hard to survive without the help of others in some way. Katniss is able to survive the Hunger Games because

Throughout the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen trains and fights for life or death, which causes her to learn a lesson about perseverance. Ultimately, this lesson is important to the work as a whole because Katniss Everdeen becomes a character that makes it out alive of the gruesome games. Katniss Everdeen begins to be a determined women at the start of the hunger games, where trains and prepares for her journey. First, when Katniss is preparing for the Hunger Games, no one takes her seriously because she is a female, and

The Hunger Games is a science fiction adventure movie directed by Gary Ross in 2012, which based on the same name novel, was written by Suzanne Collins. The story is about Katniss Everdeen, she is a female tribute in District 12, who must participate in “The Hunger Games” performs every year. According to the movie, several film reviewers have said that the Capitol uses this method to affirm and show their power over the Districts after the national revolution happened in 74 years ago. The Capital does this by means of a group called Game Makers, who chair the terms in the arena by two manners. First of all, Game Makers are able to change the weather, terrains, create animals, disasters or bring all tributes together and let them fight with

This book is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen. Katniss’ sister, Prim, was selected to participate in the Hunger Games. Katniss chose to volunteer as tribute for her sister. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a competition where 1 boys and 1 girls from each district have to fight to the death. Katniss has to participate against other great athletes to the death.

The Hunger games was one of the biggest box office movies in 2012. The Hunger Games made $677,923,379 worldwide with a production cost of $80,000,000, this leaves them with $597,923,379 in revenue. Just like The Handmaid’s Tale, The Hunger Games started out as a book written by Suzanne Collins. The protagonist Katniss Everdeen lives in Panem (North America) in one of the twelve districts governed by The Capitol and President Snow. Each year The Capital holds The Hunger Games where a boy and a girl between the ages of 12 to 18 are chosen from each district to compete in a tournament to the death. The final living winner of The Hunger Games will be famous and lavished with wealth and luxury for the rest of their lives. These games are entertainment for The Capitol, being broadcasted throughout the twelve districts. During the 74th Hunger Games Primrose, Katniss’s younger sister draws the “winning” ticket. Katniss, not wanting her sister to participate, volunteers to take her place. In The Hunger Games there are relations to current day feminism expressed throughout the movie. For example, the main lead Katniss has a bow and arrow. She hunts out in the forest, even though it is forbidden. Peeta, her male counterpart and male contestant for District Twelve in The Hunger Games, loves baking and painting. This correlates to 4th wave feminism and how men and women are equal and can do anything even outside their gender roles. In 4th wave feminism instead of just fighting for

What is the story of the Hunger Games? The story centers around a girl named katniss everdeen who lives in a dystopian society with her mom and sister .in Panem their country the land is broken up into districts 1 through 12. The people are assigned or forced to live in certain distinct because of government oppression or their financial circumstances. Each year two youths are selected from each district to represent their section, in the hunger games. The games were created to remind the people of the districts of the failure of their past rebellion. The 24 participants chosen for the sport are forced to kill each other while their districts watch. When katniss’ younger sister is selected for the games katniss’ volunteers to take her place.