There is a hero to every story, but what gives them the ability to be a hero is always different. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss, a young girl from District 12, is chosen as a tribute to represent her district in a fight to the death against 23 other tributes.She volunteered as tribute in order to save her sister’s life. Because of that bravery and compassion she had the Capitol’s eye from the beginning, she began to stand out even more when Cinna, her stylist, gave her a flaming costume and she became the Girl on Fire. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, train for the Games for a mere week before they are tossed in the arena. From the beginning of the Hunger Games, Katniss is fighting for her life, and struggles to figure …show more content…
Katniss needed to win the Games in order to get back to her family, a nearly impossible task coming from the poorest district, District 12. She needed to defeat the Careers, particularly Cato who was the face of cruelty and ruthlessness.The promise Katniss made to her sister, Primrose, that she would try to win the Hunger Games propelled her actions in the beginning of the Games. District 12 rarely had winners because they were underfed and unprepared for the arena since they had no killing or hunting skills as miners. Cato sought violence in the arena, hunting down tributes, killing ruthlessly, and seeming to enjoy it. Katniss had to face his evil nature in the arena and had to conquer it in order to win The Hunger Games. In the beginning of the Games the only district that favored her was District 12, but after Rue’s death that changed. She showed compassion to Rue and rebellion toward the Capitol when she decorated Rue’s body with flowers. In that single action she showed unity can be achieved by the districts. This was the first symbol of unity since the first historical uprising in Panem. This was simultaneously shaming the Capitol for making children compete in a game of death. She showed that the districts had more in common beyond sending tributes annually to the arena. She showed that they had a common enemy in the Capitol for forcing their will upon
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
Since the Capital will favor them, the people in the Capital will start to like District 12. When she realizes that people are starting to like them, she gets some sponsors who help her out in the game by giving her supplies. In the middle of the games, she makes an alliance with a girl from District 8, Rue, who unfortunately dies. To honor her death, Katniss makes her a look really nice by putting flowers all around her body before she is sent off. After putting flowers all over her body, she gives the camera
District twelve has a history of losing games as in dying. Katniss essentially volunteering for a death sentence.It shows that she cares more about her little sister’s life than her own.She breaks from a common practice when she teams up with Rue.Katniss treats her sister by employing strategy and winning the games.Katniss is easily underestimated by other tributes.Rue trusts Katniss partly because of the pin she wore.She is very loyal and honest to Rue after her death Katniss was loyal enough to bury Rue’s body in flowers .She was trying to make a fool out of the Capitol because she did not want the Capitol to think they owned everyone and they could kill who they wanted to kill.
Katniss is a teenager who lives in district 12, with her mother and sister, Prim Rose. Since her father died when she was young, Katniss took it upon herself to provide for the family. She has grown up hunting with her best friend, Gale, and has provided her family. Every year the Capitol of Panem hosts The Hunger Games. It is an event that brings the people of the capitol enjoyment and they place bets on who
In the film, The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross shows the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen as a strong well-skilled District 12’s female tribute who carries hope along to survive in the arena among other tributes to rebel against an oppressive government control. Throughout the film we can see how Katniss gets motivated by her loved ones back at home as well as her District 12’s members. For instance, Katniss’s younger sister, Prim gives strength when she gives the mocking jay pin
In the case of Katniss Everdeen, who was introduced as a strong, resourceful, independent, and protective young woman, she is faced with the challenge of the Hunger Games. Instead of succumbing to the challenge, she magnifies her skills to conquer it; meanwhile, gaining a deeper understanding of the country she lives in and the people who govern it. Nevertheless, this is just the beginning of Katniss's journey, and it has given her credibility while also laying the foundation for the rebellious future that lies ahead of
The Hunger Games is a novel that has everything from overwhelming bloodshed to just the right amount of romance. Written by Suzanne Collins, the book expertly narrates the experiences of sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen, who was District 12’s female tribute to the 74th Hunger Games. The central government, known as the Capitol, hosts a major event known as the Hunger Games annually, where each district under their ruling must send two tributes from the ages 12-18, one male and one female, to participate in the event where contestants fight to the death. When her sister is chosen, Katniss volunteers in her place, not willing to allow her young, innocent sister sacrifice herself for the entertainment of the Capitol. Highly skilled in hunting and archery, Katniss has to survive amongst the other contestants, all while she is presented with the difficulty of dealing with pride, love, and survival.
This shows her resisting power because she is doing something that hasn’t been done in a long time. She is also altering the outcome by making sure her sister stays home, and that Katniss goes instead. People from her District react strongly to this, by giving her respect and showing that they don't think the Games are right. The last place Katniss shows resistance is when she buries her alliance, Rue, after death in the arena. This shows Katniss’s resistance to power because when she covers her body in flowers, Katniss is trying to protest how Rue had been used just for the Games, and how unjust it all is.
A hero is not a man in tights or a cape. An example of a hero is a character named mulan, from the movie mulan. I think she is a hero because she is strong enough to face her many challenges and strong enough to overcome her imperfection. One challenge that mulan had to deal with was having to save china in war from the Huns.
“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.
She volunteered to take her sister’s occupation as a tribute for the 74th Hunger Games not because she was attempting to be a heroine. However, this move was what catapulted her into various tiers of activism. Her climatic activism occurred in Mockingjay. Everything she went through led her to a place where she felt no option but to fight for equality, peace and love for her people. She battled for complete equality for all 13 districts of Panem, sacrificed herself as a whole for others’ safety, and in the resolution, she gave hope for the freedom to love. As the Hunger Games trilogy draws to close, Katniss finally embraces the tender future ahead. She might have felt like Martin Luther King Junior when he said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
Now open your eyes; this all seems unrealistic doesn’t it? In “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen experiences all of this in result of volunteering as tribute in place of her sister. As many spinning and life-threatening events occur, the Hunger Games creates strong feelings of hope within the audience. As Katniss goes into the games already struggling for the survival of herself and family, many view her as weak and unprepared.
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
“This assertion is still fairly concrete in the meaning it attributes to the film” (Bordwell and Thompson, 2008, p. 61). The explicit meaning in The Hunger Games is a young girl names Katniss that is competing in the Hunger Games and that is faced with the reality that winning is her only option, not only for her sister, but also for her entire family. Her winning means their survival, as she is the sole provider of her family. At the start of the film, Katniss is seen hunting in order to get money for her family. In addition, she is seen acting as a mother figure to her younger sister, Prim, as well as their own mother.
Much of the Hunger Games is centered around portraying a certain image, or identity if you will. The capital manipulates the weaknesses in their society and in their people to create an identity of unity and nationalism through the way they present the games to the districts of Panem. This idea of appearing to be one thing but really being another is ingrained in the society of Panem. District 12, in particular, maintains this image of complacency for the sake of survival, and Katniss is no exception to this.