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Katniss Everdeen: A Heroic Character

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In Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss Everdeen is displayed as a somewhat consistent heroic character. Aristotle would have to agree that Katniss fits in his overall model of an ideal character. Katniss first begins her strong and determined stance at the day of the reaping with her famous line “I volunteer as tribute”, in attempt to save her sister from being forced to fight in the Hunger Games. Throughout the three books, Katniss continues to save people, however, she also loses many loved ones along the way which isn’t very consistent with her character. The first person that Katniss saves is her beloved sister, Primrose Everdeen. Katniss knows the dangers of the game, and that her sister would never be able to win, so she …show more content…

Even though He believed that “valor” was a characteristic for a warrior, and not for a woman, Katniss is one of the strongest women in the whole trilogy. Not only does she win the Hunger Games along with Peeta, but she continues to fight in the later books against the capital. She fights so that the capital can understand that the Hunger Games is immoral, and she starts a revolution along with District 13. District 13 make her “true to life and yet more beautiful” by calling her “The Mockingjay”. As this name follows Katniss, it allows her to become a poster child for the rebellion, and it also bestows a beautiful sense of hope within the other …show more content…

Katniss’ downfall is that she was slightly impulsive and her entire mind became focused on fighting and saving the people in general. However, she lost her mother and her sister in an attack from the capital, her beloved friend Rue in the very first Hunger Games, Finnick - who was her new best friend, and many more people. Katniss could have surrendered and saved the lives of those closest to her, but she chose to be consistent and power through whatever was necessary to defeat the capital, destroy the Hunger Games and save all the

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