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How Did Katniss Everdeen Change In The Hunger Games

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Term 2 Assignment
This term I have read two books, James Dashner’s The Scorch Trails and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. The genre of The Scorch Trails is science fiction. This is shown through the novel with new advanced technology in the future. The genres of The Hunger Games are drama and action. Drama is shown with great emotion as Katniss saves her sister, loves Rue but cannot accept the fact she got Rue killed, and falling in love with Peeta. Action is demonstrated during the arena scenes with Katniss fighting for her survival. These books for me are “just right” books.

The Scorch Trails is told in third person limited. This greatly affects the novel in many ways. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Thomas, meets new characters who know exactly what happened to the Earth. If this point of view was omniscient, we may have found out more information about it, instead it gives the novel more mystery. This point of view also leaves questions about the characters that have been separated. For example, …show more content…

Her emotions toward Peeta change drastically. During the beginning, she believes that Peeta being nice to her was his strategy to kill her during the games. Her emotions change after the rule change in the middle of the games. Katniss finds Peeta who works with her to win the games. Katniss had changed during her childhood as well. After her father dies and her mother shuts everybody out, Katniss becomes tougher and determined to keep her family’s stomachs full. When Katniss meets Rue, she begins to realize that other districts have different have different problems than her. During their conversation, Rue states “Oh [] I’ve never had a whole leg to myself before” (Collins 202), at this moment, Katniss realized that her district, District 12, was not the only district that starves. Katniss started to understand other problems in Panem as Rue told Katniss about her

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Katniss shows hamartia from the start of the movie till the very end. Katniss has a sister Prim, who was picked during the Reaping day, a day in which a male and female are chosen out of random from the age 12-18 to fight in the hunger games. This was the start of Katniss’s tragic hero life and in which her awareness and eager for information led her to her tragic flaw. It could be seen that she showed a display of tragic hero via her volunteering for her sister at the reaping day or how she outsmarted the Capitol. However out smarting the Cruel capitol was her tragic flaw as she thought everything had come to an end

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The theme is first represented by Katniss when she has to take responsibility for her mother and her sister Prim by feeding them and taking as much care as she can of them. In the first chapter Katniss explains that her father had died in the coal mines when she was only ten.

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The Hunger Games: Chapter Notes Chapter One: It was the morning of the reaping, Katniss was reflecting on the events of her life. This introduces the characters main family, prim, and her mother. In order to clear her mind, Katniss went hunting in the woods near the edge of District 12. While there, Katniss 's friend Gale showed up to I an escape plan before the reaping can began. Katniss declines the offer and heads to the square for the reaping.

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Throughout the book they start to become friends and realize many things they didn’t really know they would learn. In the beginning of the book Peeta tried to help Katniss in many ways. He told people that he was in love with her to help her get sponsors. Also, at the beginning of the games Peeta shook his head to Katniss telling her not to go the the supply area to try to save her from the blood bath.

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This change of thought and decision making is only natural due to the nature of the Hunger Games. A large giveaway that Katniss is making decisions that benefit her is the fact that was killing people in the arena. An example of this is when a group of “career” tributes (the tributes that have trained for the Hunger Games since they were young) and Peeta chase Katniss into a tree in an attempt to kill her. They decide rather than follow her up, they would wait it out until she had to come down. Instead of crawling down and accepting her fate Katniss notices a nest full of tracker jackers, which are genetically modified wasps with deadly poison, and decides to cut it down onto the group below her.

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On the other hand, Katniss is suspicious of his behavior, and believes he is just pretending to be nice, but she realizes that he is just being himself. She states in the book, “Peeta Mellark, on the other hand, has obviously been crying and interestingly enough does not seem to be trying to cover it up. I immediately wonder if this will be his strategy in the Games. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting.” (Collins, 2008, p.49)

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Katniss and Peeta also seem to have a codependent relationship, and both benefit from each other, represented best when Katniss hunts for food while Peeta collects berries; showing how both use their strengths to help each other survive. Above all, Katniss and Peeta can relate to each other, as they have both been actively thrown into a giant arena and are both fighitng for their lives. From Katniss’ perspective, Peeta is a familar face in a time when her whole

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She starts off as a well-respected female in her district despite the fact she’s poor. Her hamartia of caring too much about other’s survival leads her to her downfall where she volunteers to risk her life in the Panem Games for her sister during the Reaping. Again relating back to Aristotle, her downfall has a great impact on her family because they will struggle in privation alone without Katniss to help. Even throughout the game, Katniss relentlessly sacrifices her own safety to ensure that Peeta was safe. When Peeta gets a serious wound from a sword stab, Katniss’s tragic flaw forces her to go out of hiding and obtain medicine, leading her to her downfall of almost getting killed by another

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a story about Katniss Everdeen who lives in district 12 with her mom and her sister Prim. Her sister gets picked for the Hunger Games which is where each of the 12 districts have to give a boy and a girl from the ages of 12-18 do fight till the death until there is one person standing. This is because there was an outbreak against the capitals thats why there is the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers do her sister and now has to try and win the games. One theme in this story that is shown is that family love can go along way, this is shown because she is very overprotective of Prim.

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