Katniss Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

Any good story about trials and crisis needs a brave protagonist to represent the hope in every human being that they can be the hero of their own story. In Lord of the Flies, a boy named Ralph survives a plane crash onto a deserted island with other young boys, some only a little older than toddlers. Ralph becomes a leader despite his unwillingness, and when chaos is unleashed amongst the boys, Ralph attempts to keep everyone safe and keep their humanity in check. In The Hunger Games series, Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist who ignites a nation’s passion for justice after she bravely takes her sister’s place in a cruel game of survival run by the government to oppress the people. Katniss must fight her way through other “contestants” in order to survive, but when she beats the government at their own

The group of young boys on the island and the teenagers in the arena faced some similar problems, such as lack of food and how to obtain it, as well as a glaringly obvious opposition of the characters against something else, commonly referred to in Lord of the Flies as, “the beast”. While the beast was many things in Lord of the Flies, mostly just imagination and fear, and the beast in The Hunger Games was every other competitor inside the arena, there can be no dispute that the characters could not escape their own beast, and instead had to fight it head-on. Both stories contain such dangerous situations that the reader often feared for the protagonist’s life, even when they could clearly see there was still book left to be read. Dangerous situations like the ones presented in these stories are horrific, but they serve as a nice warning of the dystopia that could become of our world if humanity become