The main characters of the Catching Fire are Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. Other important characters include Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, and Finnick Odair.
• Katniss is a kind and brave individual as she is always thinking of ways to help her friends and willing to take risks. At the start of the novel, Katniss worries about Gale’s (her best friend) financial situation. She has “buckets of money, far more than enough to feed both [their] families now, and he won’t take a single coin.” (Collins, 5). To help Gale’s family, Katniss provides food for them, the only form of help they will accept, by hunting in the woods outside of district 12 even though it is an offense “punishable by death” (Collins, 9).
• Peeta is a likeable