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.
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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