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Katniss Everdeen Character Analysis

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Love is a powerful emotion that can lead people to make drastic choices in their life. Many people tend feel a sense of loyalty towards the ones they love. In Suzanne Collins’ novel, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, a teenage-girl living in a dystopian world, volunteers to take her sister’s place in The Hunger Games. Collins expresses in her novel that true bravery is the result of selflessness, and the willingness to endure sacrifices for your loved ones as seen as well in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

In the beginning of the novel, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s place at the annual Hunger Games, a death match she has little to no chance of coming out of. Katniss is willing to take her sister’s place because of her everlasting and unconditional love for her sister. “I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. “I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as a tribute!” (Collins 23). Katniss instinctively raises her hand to volunteer without thinking. “There's some confusion on the stage. District 12 hasn't had a volunteer in decades and the protocol has become rusty” (Collins 23). Her love for her sister is so deep she doesn't even hesitate to volunteer for her sister, or consider the consequences of her choice; that she can, ultimately, die in The Hunger Games. …show more content…

Katniss is willing to sacrifice her life for her sister's happiness even if it means sacrificing her life. She is willing to endure a gruesome, public death in order to protect her sister from the same fate. Katniss shows her bravery later on in the story, whenever she turns down the opportunity to win the Hunger Games for herself, in order to save the life of another tribute, Peeka

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“Hero’s are made by the path they choose, not the power they are graced with.” - Brodi Ashton. Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of this novel, who has to obey society’s unfair rules. Katniss chooses volunteers for her sister Primrose at the district 12 reaping to participate in a yearly event called The Hunger Games. She is forced to fight against the other tributes chosen from the other districts.

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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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Have you ever really connected with a character from a book or movie? In the book “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, you get to read about this amazing girl, Katniss Everdeen, and the trials she goes through, starting at age 11. A young girl turns into a woman. She portrays many traits that are at the core of all humans, including perseverance, self-growth, and the ability to make and really rely on them. All of those traits will help show the overriding theme of the book, individualism.

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Although she volunteered for her little sister Prim she kept volunteering when they needed someone to do the fight as well. She wouldn’t let anyone else do the Quarter Quell because she knew others could not do it. Although Katniss did not have a choice but she still was consisted anyway. She knew she wouldn’t die and knew that she could win every time. She didn’t want to see her peers die and she also did not let her district down.

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In Suzanne Collins “Hunger Games” the main character shows her dedication to her sister in many different ways. It is their relationship that continues to push Katniss into volunteering as tribute. With that act of courage Katniss now had a reason to stay alive within the next few weeks of her life. During those weeks she gave hope to everyone in the districts. Katniss became the “eagle” of their nation.

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Before going to The Hunger Games Katniss was only worried about feeding her family and keeping her little sister safe. Now she trying to figure out her feelings towards her friend Gale and her fellow tribute

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Katniss’ stylist, Cinna, makes Katniss stand out over all the other tributes at the opening ceremony by making her costume appear as fire. This helps her because “the best-looking tributes always seem to pull more sponsors.” (pg. 70). Katniss gains confidence that she will gain more sponsors as she sees on the screen that District 12 “are getting way more than [their] share of airtime.” (pg.87).

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Katniss Everdeen is one of the main characters of the book. She lives with her mother and sister Prim, who she loves, cares for, and practically raises. Katniss hunts many small animals close to the border of the district in a forest in order to provide food for her family- hunting is illegal in Panem- and she learned these hunting skills from her best friend Gale. When the annual choosing of the Hunger Games comes, Prim’s name is chosen and Katniss volunteers to be a tribute instead of Prim and saves her sister’s life; this shows a sense of self-sacrifice.

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Prim was one slip in a thousand…’I volunteer!’ I gasp. ‘I volunteer as tribute!’... In some districts, in which winning the reaping is a great honor, people are eager to risk their lives, The volunteering is complicated. But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.”

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She is also friendly and has a strong bond with her childhood friend Gale. She comes from the poorest district in Panem. That’s the reason she’s mostly poorly dressed. She is courageous and looks after her mother and sister, and later the little tribute girl, Rue. Katniss is strong and can be tough, although she is at times shy.

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