Examples Of Archetypes In The Hunger Games

There are many different Archetypes in literature, The Mentor, The Hero, The Everyman, The Villain, and so on. These characters often have opposites, other characters that are the reverse of their own archetype. One of the more interesting, less cut-and-dry archetypes, is the Anti-Hero. This character has flaws

Suzanne Collins’ young adult novel, The Hunger Games, is told through the eyes of a young teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen who is thrown into the fray of a simmering rebellion against a twisted government. We exist in Katniss’s head as she experiences sacrifice, loss, and pain like we may never experience. However, be it a result of her upbringing, or her steadfast personality, Katniss, for better or for worse, remains a static character

Katniss appears to be a lone wolf of sorts. She has a very anti-social nature, which holds her back from many good relationships with others. This attribute is also very much a result of her reluctance to trust others. Katniss’s father was the provider of the family, and when he died, suddenly that luxury was lost. When she expected her mother to step up and take her place as head of the family, she shut down, rejecting her responsibilities. By effectively losing both parents in such a hostile world, Katniss had to learn to depend on herself, and only herself. On the way to the

The gamemakers dawdle, and make conversation instead of focusing on the task at hand: evaluating and rating tributes. “I shot an arrow at them. Not exactly at them. In their direction. Its like Peeta said, I was shooting and they were ignoring me and I just… I just lost my head, so I shot an apple out of their stupid roast pig’s mouth!” This not only gets the gamemakers attention, but earns her a very good score. In firing at the gamemakers, Katniss takes a small step out of bounds, bending the capitols rules and pushing the limits of what is acceptable, a stunt she grows more and more fond of pulling as the story goes