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Katniss 'Murder In The Hunger Games' By Suzanne Collins

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Do you like to watch children murder each other in a deathmatch? Well boy do I have the book for you. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a story about 24 children who are forced into an arena to kill each other. 2 children are chosen from each district to compete and our main character Katniss volunteers for her sister to compete in the games. Peeta is chosen from the same district. She trains alongside Peeta before they are both thrown into the arena. Katniss, having years of experience taking care of herself, is able to live through the first couple of days and outsmarts her opponents until she finally obtains a bow, the weapon she is skilled at using. Finally, she teams up with Peeta to win the game by outsmarting the Capitol. But the …show more content…

Later, the Avox girl forgives Katniss, knowing that if she helped her she would have been captured too. “But I know that my apology runs much deeper. That I'm ashamed that I never tried to help her in the woods. That I let the capitol kill the boy and mutilate her without lifting a finger.”(85) She feels like she owes the Avox because she felt that she could have done something to stop her from getting captured and losing her friend. But in the end, the Avox forgives Katniss for not helping her. This last instance of owing someone is how Thresh owed Katniss so he saved her life.In chapter 15, Katniss teams up with Rue. Katniss and Rue get close to each other and when Rue dies Katniss is distraught because she was friends with Rue. When Katniss is about to be killed by Clove, Thresh tackles and kills Clove. He doesn’t kill Katniss, however, because he wants to make it even with her because she helped take care of Rue.“Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl who loves to play. You and me, were even then. No more owed. You understand?” (288)Thresh chooses not to kill Katniss as a way of thanking her and making it

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After that, Katniss killed Marvel, the one who threw the spear, with her bow and arrow. Katniss cries, sings to Rue, then gathers flowers and lays them around her body to show the Capitol that they are not just “a piece of their game”. After reading this, I discovered that Katniss really thought of Rue as a sister. I think that it was very daring of Katniss to show an act of defiance to the capitol and show that they are humans and have feelings too. I loved how she stood up for herself and showed the Capitol what she believed in.

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Once Katniss and Peeta were brought into the hovercraft and were healed, the capitol would question them about what was going through their minds when they were about to kill themselves with poisonous berries. The capitol is not happy with them threatening to do this, and during the interview, the only excuse Katniss could use was her “love” for Peeta: “‘Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren’t responsible for your actions’” (Collins 845). This provides an explanation of what happened on Katniss’ journey back home, and the step she follows in act three. This is important because this wraps up the end of the hero journey, and Katniss’ journey.

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This puts Katniss in a devastated state in which she has hard times trying to remember what had happened on the day that had put her in shock and had Peeta captured by president snow, Katniss puts all the blame on herself which only worsens her condition. To help with herself she constantly says “My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am 17 years old. My home is district 12. I was in the hunger games.

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The gamemakers thinks katniss has no talents and so she shoots an apple in a pig mouth to prove them wrong. “I wasn't trying to kill none of them if i was I would”(p.103Katniss cares alot about peeta and she wants him to live through this.katniss is going to show off her talents to the gamemakers but there's a problem. “I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people” (p.122)katniss is a loving person but it take more than knowing her for her to give you her great

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Using her experience she kills for food or to trade it. With her help her family has been able to survive. She also helps her family because Katniss signs up for the tesserae. Tesserae is a ration of grain that is given in exchange for placing someone to put in their name multiple times in the lottery for the Hunger Game. Katniss always exchanges her name for the tessera.

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When Rue and Katniss split up to destroy the careers supply of food, Katniss comes back to find Rue with a spear in her stomach. “When I break into the clearing, she’s on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.” Rue's passing devastated Katniss deeply on an emotional level and increased her hostility towards the Capitol. In an attempt to convince the Capitol that the tributes are more than simply pieces in their games, Katniss chooses to collect wildflowers to adorn Rue's body.

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Katniss and rue stuck together at a point. Tresh put his and Katniss’s differences aside because of rue. He decided to let her go. He saw she was scared and that she teamed up with a child. She kept her safe to the end and sang her to sleep.

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Then, Thresh let Katniss live because of how she partnered with Rue and took care of her. He felt indebted to Katniss for caring for Rue. While having a discussion with Peeta, Katniss brings up how Thresh was paying off debts that he had with her for her treatment of Rue when he let her go. “All of which leads to what happened with Thresh and how he was paying off debts of some sort.” pg 292.

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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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First, one reason why Katniss shows humanity and compassion is because of her care for others. First, Katniss cares for others because she took care of Peeta. With her time with the healing Peeta, she tried her hardest to keep Peeta alive. She healed Peeta with his sicknesses and injuries. Another reason why Katniss cares for others, is that she takes care of her family.

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