Katniss Everdeen In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

As Suzanne Collins, the author of the Hunger Games, states through Katniss Everdeen, an independent sixteen year old girl, “I just can’t be one of those people he wants me to be” (121). In the Hunger Games, a dystopian fiction novel based in the fictional nation of Panem, Katniss is faced with being seemingly unpresentable and hostile in her interview in front of the Capitol society. It is best to obtain sponsors to provide gifts for tributes during the Games. Katniss is taught she must be like the past tributes that appealed to the Capitol before and she believes she can not live up to this. Unlike Katniss’ opinions of herself, she is a very lovable person because of the way she protects the ones she cares about, her fierce rebellious spirit,

Katniss lives with her mother and younger sister, Prim. Her father died years earlier in a mine explosion, so Katniss has become the main provider for her family as her mother could not mentally withstand the loss. The Capitol of Panem hosts the annual Hunger Games, a televised game where they fight to the death. Every district is made to provide a girl and boy, twelve years or older, tribute for the Hunger Games. On the day the tributes are chosen, known as the reaping, Katniss’ sister, Prim, is selected, and Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place. She is the tribute for District 12 alongside Peeta Mellark, who will perceive Katniss in a well-liked manner with his love for her. Katniss uses her skills of hunting and using a bow and arrow, which she was taught by her father, to stay alive in the

At a young age, since her father died, she learned to provide and protect for her family, so when her younger sister, Prim, is drawn for the reaping she volunteers to take her place. This shocks the crowd as Katniss states, “But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct” (Collins 22). As she volunteers, she does it with no hesitation and courageously. The crowd sees this as an act of admiration and gives their respect to Katniss by holding up their three middle fingers stretched out to her, a gesture of their district. This gesture shows the true love her district had for Katniss after she volunteered for Prim. During the Games, Katniss creates an alliance with Rue, a sweet, innocent girl from District 11. Their bond is strong and they form a plan together to take down the Careers, the upper district tributes. In order to execute the plan they must separate and as Katniss leaves Rue she begins to worry and explains her worries that are, “Rue being killed, [...] about leaving Rue alone. [...] Rue only has me” (Collins 213). She has realized the impact Rue has left on her and how much she truly cares for her. Katniss relates Rue to her sister, Prim, and feels the same worry she had when leaving Prim to take her place in the Hunger Games. Although Prim has Gale, Katniss’ friend, her mother, and others