The main symbol in The Hunger Games is the Mockingjay which comforts and helps Katniss during the Hunger Games. The mockingjays were a failed project of the Capitol, who was going to use them to spy on rebellious districts, and since then the bird is a reminder of the Capitols failure. Katniss says, "They're funny birds and something of a slap in the face to the Capitol". Before Katniss leaves to compete in the Hunger Games, the mayor's daughter, Madge, gives Katniss a pin that belongs to her. This pin was in the shape of a Mockingjay and is one of the first mentions of the bird in the book.
All the districts didn’t fall for Katniss and Peeta's love for each other and neither did President Snow. Before Katniss and Peeta go on the victor's tour president snow had a chat with katniss telling her if he sees anymore rebellious stunts there will be harsh consequences. After the tour Katniss and Peeta felt it was best for them to get married to show the public eye what they wanted. Later the capital had a victors hunger games were
In the book, The Hunger Games, one of the main events is when Katniss volunteers for her sister, Prim, to participate in the annual Hunger Games. After reading this event, I was very surprised. I noticed that Katniss surprised herself by saying she would volunteer, but then quickly recovered once she remembered that the reaping would be shown on television. “…this is upsetting me and I don’t want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I’ll be marked as an easy target.
After both Katniss and Peeta win the Hunger Games, they return home and create a rebel party against the Capitol. Katniss and Peeta are drafted again into the 75th Hunger Games, and Katniss destroys the Hunger Games. In doing this, Peeta is captured by the Capitol and kept as a prisoner of war. In order to save Peeta and the Districts, Katniss unites the people against the Capitol. They form an army that passes through the security of the Capitol and saved Peeta.
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have a mutualism symbolic relationship during the Hunger Games. Their association was the key cause of both their survival in the Games. Katniss pretends that she is in love with Peeta in order to please the sponsors to get gifts for both of them. At the end, this relationship results in their victory of the Hunger Games. Their interaction increases their chances of survival because it causes viewers to sympathize them as they are perceived to be“star-crossed lovers from District Twelve” (Collins 135).
Human nature seems to be totally different in the next novel. In The Hunger Games, a male and female are selected out of twelve districts every year to participate in the games. The point of the game is to be placed in an inescapable battlefield and fight to the death. If a character wins the games you receive money, food, a house, and prestige. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are a part of the annual game.
The film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is based on the novel written by Suzanne Collins. A year after winning the 74th Hunger Games, where Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark tried committing suicide by eating poisonous berries because they would rather die together then to face off and try to kill each other. With both Katniss and Peeta declared the winners, it is fueling a possible uprising. After this, Katniss and Peeta realize that they have started a revolution and continue to show people their undying love for eachother; however, President Snow doesn’t believe their lie and tries to make the people see this throughout the film. So before Katniss and her partner Peeta go on a victor’s tour, where they go to all the districts to make a speech, President Snow goes to tell Katniss that he is always watching her by showing her footage of her and her old
The Hunger Games: Chapter Notes Chapter One: It was the morning of the reaping, Katniss was reflecting on the events of her life. This introduces the characters main family, prim, and her mother. In order to clear her mind, Katniss went hunting in the woods near the edge of District 12. While there, Katniss 's friend Gale showed up to I an escape plan before the reaping can began. Katniss declines the offer and heads to the square for the reaping.
In the book Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen the girl on fire unlucky participated in a game known as the Hunger Games, which is a competition between 24 tributes 2 from each district, They have to fight to the death and the winner is granted with wealth and fortune. In the last book of the series (Mockingjay) Katniss has been part of plan that she had no idea about. The other tributes knew about it and wanted to break free from the Arena. Suddenly everything veered in every direction possible, Peeta Mellark was lifted into the wrong hovercraft and taken hostage by the Capitol. Herself and the rest
The announcement said that there may be two winners of the Hunger Games if they are from the same district. This urged Katniss to find Peeta, as she's walking she sees a blood trail. As she follows the blood trail she hears a weak voice saying “Don’t step on me”. It was Peeta, Katniss nursed him back to health. She washed his wounds and wrapped his leg up.
Katniss and Peeta also seem to have a codependent relationship, and both benefit from each other, represented best when Katniss hunts for food while Peeta collects berries; showing how both use their strengths to help each other survive. Above all, Katniss and Peeta can relate to each other, as they have both been actively thrown into a giant arena and are both fighitng for their lives. From Katniss’ perspective, Peeta is a familar face in a time when her whole
Katniss and Peeta’s appearance, altered by the capital, is important for their survival before, during, and after the games. In the Capitol of Panem, appearances are everything, especially the pre-games rituals, such as the chariot ride into the Capitol or the Gamemaker's scores on the tributes. Katniss and Peeta, both coming from a poor district, are not liked as the other districts are, such as Districts 1, 2, or 3, but this does not restrain their chatriot ride into the Capitol. “The crowd’s initial alarm at our appearance quickly changes to cheers and shouts of ‘District Twelve!’
At this point in the story, they have finally reached the surreal moment of winning the Hunger Games. In chapter twenty, page three hundred and forty five, the text states," '... Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark!' I give you---the tributes of District 12!' " Katniss's perseverance has paid off.
Peeta Mellark, one of the main characters in the book The Hunger Games, once said, “ My nightmares are usually about losing you. But I am okay once I realise your here.” The novelis about two teens from each district in the country Panem being selected to be in the Hunger Games, a reality TV show that requires them to fight to the death. Over the course of the novel, the two main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, develop romantic feelings for each other.
The overarching theme of Suzanne Collins’ novel, The Hunger Games, is that love can make people forget their basic survival instincts as shown by Katniss’ willingness to put herself in peril to save her loved ones such as Primrose Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and the girl from district eleven Rue. Love 's effect on a person 's survival instincts is first demonstrated by Katniss ' love for her younger sister, Primrose (Prim).In The Hunger Games, every year the districts hold a reaping to choose the tributes that go to the games. Prim gets called at the reaping and Katniss volunteers for her. In paragraph six chapter two of the novel it states “With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. ‘I volunteer!’
