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The Significance Of Family In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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Even if you don't acknowledge it, we all have a family. Some of us may have delight and others may loathe our family. Family can be blood and some by no means actually related. Either way this is for you, the real question is how far would you go for them? Would you sacrifice yourself for them? The novel “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins has a powerful message about the significance of family. The publication starts off by introducing the life of Katniss Everdeen with her mother and little sister Prim in district 12. Just as we are being introduced we find out about the reaping. The reaping consists of one male and one female being chosen from each district to go into fight against each other, killing each other in order to survive and …show more content…

When Katniss and Peeta were going to eat the berries so the capitol won't have a winner, outsmarting them. She was worried about what would happen to her loved ones, not herself. “ It's so much worse than being hunted in the arena. There, I could only die. End of story. But out here Prim, my mother, Gale, the people of District 12, everyone I care about back home could be punished.”( page 358) Katniss is expressing that she believes that now that she is out of the arena where at first when she was put in there was the most daunting task releasing, in reality, this, knowing they're in trouble tops it. She's also thinking that at least when she was in the arena she only had to worry about herself but now she has an increased amount of more people to worry about. She cares more about the other people in her life than herself. As previously stated what you consider your family doesn't have to be blood related. Katniss cares deeply about many individuals in her life. So intensely devoted to them she cares more about them than she obviously does herself. When you care so profoundly about other humankind they become hugely

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