For she is fiercely protective of her younger sister Prim, and she volunteers to take her place in the Hunger Games to protect her. Hence, she left Katniss to take care of the family despite her youthful age.. Because of the tough conditions in District 12 starvation , Katniss has grown into a tough, unsentimental yet compassionate girl.
Her sense of compassion remains intact is clear through the way she treats Rue. One places that shows Cat thinks ghosts are bad is when they hurt her sister pg. This is important because her sister means everything to her and now that her sister got hurt she thinks they want her.
Another place this is shown is when they follow her to her house and won't go away pg. In the beginning of the story, she felt strongly towards her brother, and she loved him, but at the end the greatest change happened.
She wanted to kill him, probably because of the work and pain his absence has brought the family. Because she was unhappy with her corporate job in , she flew to Thailand to volunteer at an elephant sanctuary in Chang Mai.
They noticed that she loved animals because she fed every stray cat and dog she saw in the city. While every other woman in the village sat back and said nothing because they were willing to accept the oppression from the men in the village, Leah took the initiative to stand up for her rights.
In this situation Leah took flak from her own family, her dad hated the idea of her hunting. This shows how courageous leah is and how she is willing to stand up for her rights as a woman. Important Quotes Explained. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Characters Katniss Everdeen. Popular pages: The Hunger Games. Take a Study Break. Nalini combines her love of meaning, analysis, and critical thinking with movies, media, and discussion to bring a different perspective.
Katniss Everdeen is such a complex and interesting character that I was surprised to find that many people found her to be an unlikeable and simplified character. Her character and what she brings to the story are what give the story much of its layers and commentary, and studying her character proves for a fascinating look into psychology, human coping, and the human spirit.
This analysis is based off of reading the trilogy and watching the movies. This act was not a calculated or planned but was done out of sacrifice, to protect Prim from the games and to give Prim a chance at life.
In the process, Katniss risks forsaking her own life. After volunteering to take Prim's place in the games, Katniss is quickly swept up into the surreal and twisted world of games preparation, Capitol culture and media, and then the actual games.
Through all of this Katniss has to learn to maneuver a social and media minefield as well as the actual field of the games. Katniss has to develop and draw upon social skills that she does not have, and she has to use these skills in order to obtain the favor of an audience that watches a game in which she may very well lose her life and have to kill others who are fighting for their own lives, all for entertainment. This is no easy feat and not easy for anyone to stomach.
While Katniss never comes to stomach it, she does come to accept the fact that if she wants to live she has to "play the game" in more than one sense and on more than one level. This is a reality throughout the series that Katniss comes to increasingly accept, although not always willingly and normally without knowing what the outcome will be.
When Katniss discusses the games with Peeta the night before the games, Peeta shares with her a desire to stay true to who he is while in the games, to die as himself, and to not just be another piece in the games. Katniss initially interprets this to mean that Peeta would not kill anyone but Peeta clarifies when he answers Katniss' question in that he would kill if and when he had to but he wanted to still be himself if he were to die in the games.
Katniss responds to Peeta letting him know that she cannot afford to think like that because she has Prim. This discussion is telling because it shows how much Prim is a driving force for Katniss and while she may not be able to focus on herself or wanting to stay true to herself if she dies, she will try to survive and win the games for Prim.
This moment also foreshadows how Katniss will ultimately become a piece in their games and how Katniss on some level recognizes that she cannot rule out the possibility of becoming a piece in their games because she has Prim. In the games, Katniss shows to be much like Peeta in that she will kill if and when she has to, most specifically when her survival is threatened directly.
Katniss does not go out of her way to kill the other tributes and takes no pleasure in killing them, however she does not feel remorse or hesitation when the time comes for her to defend herself, when the time comes to kill, or when a killing has occurred. The exception to this is of course Rue, who Katniss views similarly to how she views Prim and who Katniss does not kill but who is killed by another tribute. In order to survive, to maintain her sanity, and to keep going, Katniss does not allow herself to mourn or dwell on the loss of the other tributes but because she does open herself up to Rue and sees Rue as she sees Prim, she feels the loss of Rue acutely and this loss shakes Katniss' core.
It is the senseless and violent killing of Rue that causes Katniss to breakdown. In an act of defiance, anger, and loss, Katniss mourns Rue and mourns her as properly as she can given the circumstances.
In addition, she shows the three-finger sign of her district to Rue's district and the audience. While this act does not end up being fully televised, by doing this Katniss is showing her and Rue's humanity, and is returning humanity to the games which by design, strip the tributes of their humanity, and which also encourage and support the loss of the humanity of the tributes and of non-Capitol populations.
This shows that while Katniss may view surviving as a priority, and that while she may implement whatever coping strategies she needs to in order to survive, she is not without conscience and heart, and that she is not without awareness of the wrongness and lack of humanity inherent in the games.
After mourning the loss of Rue, Katniss continues the game alone until it is announced that two tributes from the same district can come out of the game alive. With this, Katniss begins her search for Peeta and once she finds him, Katniss looks after him as best as she can. During this time, Katniss has to "play the game" yet again and in another way, as she has to make the audience and Peeta believe that she loves Peeta in order to gain the audience's support, and in gaining their support, increase both of their chances of surviving the games.
Katniss is an excellent hunter, archer, gatherer, and trapper, skilled just like her deceased father. The genre of The Scorch Trails is science fiction. This is shown through the novel with new advanced technology in the future. The genres of The Hunger Games are drama and action.
Drama is shown with great emotion as Katniss saves her sister, loves Rue but cannot accept the fact she got Rue killed, and falling in love with Peeta. Action is demonstrated during the arena scenes with Katniss fighting for her survival. The Scorch Trails is told in third person limited.
This greatly affects the novel in many ways. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Thomas, meets new characters who know exactly what happened to the Earth. If this point of view was omniscient, we may have found out more information about it, instead it gives the novel more mystery.
This point of view also leaves questions about the characters that have been separated. For example, …show more content… Her emotions toward Peeta change drastically. During the beginning, she believes that Peeta being nice to her was his strategy to kill her during the games. Her emotions change after the rule change in the middle of the games. Katniss finds Peeta who works with her to win the games. Katniss had changed during her childhood as well.
When Katniss meets Rue, she begins to realize that other districts have different have different problems than her.
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