Character Analysis Of Protagonists In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Throughout literature there is an amount of protagonists who are effective largely because of their characteristics. An example of an effective protagonist can arguably be found in The Hunger Games (Chapter 1), a novel excerpt written by Suzanne Collins, published in September 2008. This excerpt follows the protagonist Katniss Everdeen and how she reacts to several happenings which precede The Reaping, an event where two teenagers from each of the twelve districts of Panem are chosen to partake in a competition to the death until one victor succeeds. Katniss has constant fears of being chosen because she is the provider of her family due to unfortunate circumstances, but in a twist of events her younger sister Prim is chosen. Katniss is effective in portraying an existential protagonist who lives in a

Katniss is also characterized as being determinedly confident. She recalls that twenty of the slips that are used to determine a contestant have her name written on them in careful handwriting. This is a demonstration of how Katniss is determined to be confident in her actions because her careful handwriting suggests that she desires her name to be legible so that if her name is the one chosen, there would be no second guesses that she was the one picked. This is to appear as though she is undaunted, so that those who take joy in watching the chosen children suffer would not be satisfied by her fear, but rather irked by her confidence, which is her desired effect. Katniss expresses that she has every intention to stay alive for as long as possible, especially in spite of her dim reality. She believes that if she had to decide whether to die by hunger or by a bullet to the head, the bullet would result in a quicker