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The Hunger Games: Katniss Everdeen's Character Change

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“I stare in the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not. “ Katniss Everdeen the main character from the series The Hunger Games undergoes a wide character development through the books. Reasons for her change are all the more worth discussing about. Katniss has undergone a character arc due to some strong influencers like, The Games she participated in. Also her problematic relationship with the capital and the rebellion. Also the strong love for Gale and Peeta. These are all contributing factors to the change in Katniss forcing her from a passive girl to a determined, defiant girl. “We sit in silence awhile and then I blurt out the thing that’s on both our minds. “How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?” Before the games started, Katniss’ sister was selected in the reaping. She immediately volunteered as tribute and then went to the Games. She killed many people and also lost a good friend of hers. After the games, in the very beginning of Catching Fire, her and Gale were hunting a turkey and she shot an arrow and had a flashback of her killing someone and she freaked out. I …show more content…

She knew she had to be strong for them just in case anything happened to them. She’s always been afraid to get hopeful, trust anyone, or rely on anyone. She’s been on her own for most of her life until The Hunger Games. “It’s the things we love the most that destroy us” here she expresses that she can’t be to hopeful on love because it might weaken her. She also represents the symbol of rebellion because what she did during the games encouraged the people from other districts to act out on the Capital. During the hunger games tour, the people honored and respected her for what she did, but they wanted to hear the real her not what the capital wanted to hear. People look up to her and want to be like her. She changed the way she acted for the

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In the book Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins it shows many attributes,brawls, and disloyalty. The important aspects that were shown throughout the book was survival and dependence, many times in the book someone needed to put themselves first in order to survive, and put their own trust into someone else. It also makes you question if there's ever a good reason to do the wrong thing, such as killing someone not out of self defense but for survival games. Katniss Everdeen being the main character, close friend Gale Hawthorne has been committed to Katniss and her family. After Katnisses father had passed she had to take on that role of parenthood for her little sister Prim, her mom couldn’t be trusted with that duty since she would leave for days on end.

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That strength comes within hope. She made Katniss Everdeen a light of hope by making her self- sufficient, independent, family oriented a survivor, intelligent, brave, strong and she's eye catching all at the time. Everdeen is able to show how shes self-sufficient and her independence by hunting and making a living with a bow and arrow to keep her family alive. She showed that she was family oriented She showed as a survivor when

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Katniss had to be responsible for keeping her family and friends safe and alive, but she also had to take care of herself. In chapter eleven the Hunger Games had began and Katniss left behind the bow that was supposed to “belong to her”. She knew that there was no way she could have survived without it, but she also knew that it was her fault and she had to survive without it. In Chapter 13 Katniss was being “chased” by a fire and fire balls were being thrown at her. She got severely burned and couldn’t do much at all so she had to fix her own leg because there was no one else to help her.

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Katniss’ struggle to maintain her authentic self represents a strategy to navigate the problems of the world as she tries to feed her family, fight against her competitors to survive the Games as well as fighting against oppression in society. She assumes a public persona amidst maintaining an identity to win the audience’s favor to get help at key points. However, she is not charismatic and thus struggles with knowing the right things to do and say in addition to making decisions on how to go about such issues. Collins seems to assert that crafting a public persona is not dangerous as long as it plays out well as it happened to Katniss by, for instance, getting more sponsors (Collins, 10.24). However, the person assuming a public persona should learn the distinctions between what is real and is fiction.

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When he chosen to Hunger Games, anyone didn't be volunteer for him. So he is the male tribute from District 12.He is in love with Katniss.

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Peeta has a large amount of internal conflict after he is “high jacked” by the Capitol. He would constantly “Arguing with himself like he was two people.” Most of his strugglese is going through happen internally and he continues to try to discern what is real and what is not. However, Katniss continuously debates her role and is constantly questioning if she is being used and manipulated by the Capital. She also struggles with discerning her feeling for Peeta and Gale.

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The Hunger Games begins on the day of the reaping in District 12. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister Prim’s place in the "reaping". She becomes the female tribute from District 12. Katniss and the male tribute Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where they made interviews by the press, got ready to Hunger Games and take part in competition. As part of the strategy devised by Haymitch with District 12 , Peeta confesses on camera that he has feelings for Katniss.

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Katniss’s identity prior to the Games was almost solely based on hunting and gathering as a means of survival. If she was to in fact win then it would also result in a change of identity because her entire life was focused on that one goal “how would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by” (65). Katniss’s situation is comparable to if someone won a lottery half way through University, the reason most people go to school is to get a job and make money to support their desired lifestyle. Especially today where people prioritize education so much, for that to no longer be necessary would be extremely alarming and would also result in a change in identity. This is yet another example of how Katniss’s identity is changing due to the games.

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This shows the readers that Katniss really about her mom and sister and she will keep them in her thoughts when she enters the games. The second quote that supports the theme is on page 22 “ With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. I volunteer I gasp I volunteer as tribute.” This quote helps the readers realize that Katniss is very protective of her sister Prim

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