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Peeta Mellark Vs. Kat-Niss Everdeen

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The two main characters of my novel, The Hunger Games, are Peeta Mellark, and Kat-niss Everdeen, are two characters that particularly have a significant number of similarities, while still having a distinct amount of differences. Katniss is 16 years old, and she has long black hair, that is usually in a braid because of the games. She has grey eyes, and an olive skin tone. These physical traits are common in the Seam, which is the lower class part of District 12 where Katniss lives. Since she is only 5’5”, she isn’t very tall, but she is thin compared to the other tributes. Katniss is light for her age, making her one of the smallest tributes in the games. Because of how her father died, and due to her outdoor life at home (as she is the …show more content…

Peeta is also 16 years old in the book. He has blond hair, a lighter skin tone than Katniss, and has blue eyes. Peeta has a stocky bodyshape, and can lift very heavy weights (as he does back at home too since his father owns a bakery). He isn't too tall either, he is 5’7”, making him noticeably shorter than one of the most dangerous, if not, the most dangerous trib-utes, Cato, who is 6’2”. Peeta lives with both of his parents, and they run a bakery shop back in District 12. This is the reason why he can lift 100 pound weights so easily. Since his dad owns a bakery, Peeta and his family live in the higher class part of District 12. Peeta’s really doesn't have a weapon of choice, but some of his advantages are that he can lift heavy weights, can camouflage exceptionally well, and that he can somewhat use knives to his advantage. Peeta could also survive in the Hunger Games because he is also smart, a very good actor, and partic-ularly manipulative. An example of this is at the end of chapter 11 when Katniss finds out that Peeta is in an alliance with the career tributes. The career tributes are on a team in the begin-ning, and when they have killed everyone, they fight each other. Only the strongest tributes are the career tributes because they have been trained to be in the arena since they were born. Peeta is with the careers at the beginning of the games. At the end of

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