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Katniss Everdeen: A Heroic Character

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In Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss Everdeen is displayed as a somewhat consistent heroic character. Aristotle would have to agree that Katniss fits in his overall model of an ideal character. Katniss first begins her strong and determined stance at the day of the reaping with her famous line “I volunteer as tribute”, in attempt to save her sister from being forced to fight in the Hunger Games. Throughout the three books, Katniss continues to save people, however, she also loses many loved ones along the way which isn’t very consistent with her character. The first person that Katniss saves is her beloved sister, Primrose Everdeen. Katniss knows the dangers of the game, and that her sister would never be able to win, so she …show more content…

Even though He believed that “valor” was a characteristic for a warrior, and not for a woman, Katniss is one of the strongest women in the whole trilogy. Not only does she win the Hunger Games along with Peeta, but she continues to fight in the later books against the capital. She fights so that the capital can understand that the Hunger Games is immoral, and she starts a revolution along with District 13. District 13 make her “true to life and yet more beautiful” by calling her “The Mockingjay”. As this name follows Katniss, it allows her to become a poster child for the rebellion, and it also bestows a beautiful sense of hope within the other …show more content…

Katniss’ downfall is that she was slightly impulsive and her entire mind became focused on fighting and saving the people in general. However, she lost her mother and her sister in an attack from the capital, her beloved friend Rue in the very first Hunger Games, Finnick - who was her new best friend, and many more people. Katniss could have surrendered and saved the lives of those closest to her, but she chose to be consistent and power through whatever was necessary to defeat the capital, destroy the Hunger Games and save all the

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Her life and the citizens’ lives is worthless to the Capitol, but with her sacrifice, comes the betterment of the lives of the rest of her people. Another way the author conveys the theme is by using symbolism. After Katniss came back from the stage for her speech to her supporters she says, “As a stricken man clutches my face between his hands, I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people.

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but sometimes they don’t turn out the way hero’s want and most of the time they do. Katniss had a quest to go into the hunger games and win after she volunteered to take her sister 's spot. When they arrived to the capital her quest began, she went to trainings to train and to watch the other tributes to see what their strongest at doing. When training was over and it was time to go into the arena to battle for your life katniss was nervous but she went in with a brave face. As more and more people

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Katniss is very poor which makes training for the Hunger Games very difficult for her. Unlike her opponents in other districts who train their whole lives for the Games. However, overall she proves to the city and district that she is a tragic hero through her self-sacrifice that led to victory. The Hunger games as you all are in common with was created by a bias capitol.

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It is a reminder that Katniss's fate is ultimately in her own hands, and that she must rely on her abilities to stay alive. Despite the many challenges and obstacles that she faces, Katniss never gives up or loses sight of her objective. She uses every resource at her disposal to outmaneuver her opponents, from her archery skills to her intelligence and cunning. Whether she is hiding in the trees or using her knowledge of edible plants to stay nourished, Katniss

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Katniss had to be responsible for keeping her family and friends safe and alive, but she also had to take care of herself. In chapter eleven the Hunger Games had began and Katniss left behind the bow that was supposed to “belong to her”. She knew that there was no way she could have survived without it, but she also knew that it was her fault and she had to survive without it. In Chapter 13 Katniss was being “chased” by a fire and fire balls were being thrown at her. She got severely burned and couldn’t do much at all so she had to fix her own leg because there was no one else to help her.

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Katniss is the Mockingjay. Katniss was one of their fails, alongside of the Mockingjays. She gives hope to the Districts that they can break free of the Capitol, so do the Mockingjays. Even once the Capitol think they’ve beaten her in the games by announcing that only one victor may win the games, Katniss did something so small, yet so damaging; she pulled out nightlock berries. Just a handful of black, toxic berries, was enough to send Panem into

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In the beginning of the movie many of the choices Katniss makes are in order to ensure her families survival. The major decision that Katniss makes for her family is volunteering as a tribute in place of her younger sister, Prim. She made that decision so her younger sister, who was 12 at the time, would not have to fight for her life in the Hunger Games. Although this choice is major and is very prominent in the beginning, there are other choices that are make that show her determination to help her family survive. Another

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Moreover, the evidence tells us that Katniss is a selfless person who would basically give up her life for her family, even though she will be forced to go the capital, where she will be used as a pawn in the Hunger Games. Furthermore,

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She 's the one who embodies, articulates and justifies the battle" (Dargis 2). Indeed this statement makes a major point that Katniss humanizes the violence set out to destroy her, and it is her personality and nature that prove her to be an able body to look up to for hope. Another embodiment of hope she holds is her wise instincts. “Who is continually figuring out how to outwit her oppressor and secure her family’s survival” (Skinner 3). Katniss has always held a keen insight into how the minds of the leaders in the Capital work, which has lead her to develop fierce instincts; another trait exemplified in a hero.

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She has become the victor of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. If Katniss would not have persisted throughout the entirety of the Games, then she would have been killed off. This helps support the book's theme of survival because without perseverance, Katniss would not have made it that far in the Games. She would have not at all been able to go home to Prim. One needs perseverance to survive, which is why the character trait conveys the theme of the story.

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She survived the mutant wasps and fire courtesy of the Gamemakers, and managed to win some fights with other tributes as well. All of these tests are leading her up to “The Big One.” This is the biggest test in a hero’s journey, what makes or breaks the person. All of the other tests were just preparing her to make sure that she is ready for this test. Katniss’s “Big One” happens when the only tributes left are her, Peeta, and Cato.

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Responsibility is key to survival in The Hunger Games because you must be responsible and careful before making a decision that depends on your life. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” (Winston Churchill) In The Hunger Games, two tributes, one male and one female under the age of eighteen, must leave their district to go and compete in The Hunger Games. While in the games all twenty-four tributes must fight to the death to entertain their Capital city.

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In the Hunger Games, there is an outstanding amount of great characters, and one of them is none other than Katniss Everdeen our main character. And she's brave, strong, confident, and she went through a lot of stuff when

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In the book the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins the main character Katniss Everdeen goes through a rough journey during the adventure in the games. In the book they describe the adventures of Katniss Everdeen with Peeta Mellark and also describes how she lives in district 12 and is a helper in the hospital. The story begins with them gathered up and them waiting for the raffle of who is going into the next games. Throughout this story Katniss Everdeen from district 12 mentally and socially change and becomes a scared youngster to when she breaks into a braven women and then is unstoppable in other words fearless. To begin, in the beginning of the book Katniss Everdeen is a scared youngster once she hears about her enemies in various ways and

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Katniss learns how to be more selfless and not let coming from district 12 define who she is and what she can do. Katniss is a strong, force,and selfless charter who the readers can see a little bit of themselves in her as she develops through the story. The readers also strive to be a little bit more like Katniss everyday because she has the strength and willpower to complete any task that she puts her mind too. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is an amazing book for readers of all

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