Katniss Everdeen is a 16 year old tribute from district 12. Katniss 's father had died in the mines when Katniss was 11 so she had to take care of her sister Prim, herself, and her mother. Luckily Katniss 's father taught her to hunt making her well trained to help her family survive. During the reaping, Katniss 's sister Prim, got selected as tribute so Katniss bravely volunteered to take her sister 's place. The second tribute was Peeta Mellark. The two tributes began they 're train ride to the Capitol. During the ride they met Effie, their escort and publicist, and Haymich, their mentor. In the Capitol they met Cinna and Portia, their stylists. Before the Games the Capitol 's citizens pick which tribute they 'll vote for and sponsor. …show more content…
Then, the gamemakers announce that two tributes from the same district can both win. Katniss searches for Peeta hoping they could be the two winners. Once she finds him she heals him up but, he still had a fever and blood poisoning. They hide in a cave together until a gamemaker announces that there is a feast and it will contain the items they need most. Katniss drugs Peeta and go 's to the Cornucopia. At the Cornucopia Katniss is attacked by another tribute, Clove and receives a wound to her head. But then a tribute from district 11 kills Clove and lets Katniss go because she helped Rue. Katniss receives Peetas medicine, saving him. The next day, Katniss goes hunting and Peeta goes gathering. He accidentally gathers poisonous berries. He left some with his backpack farther in the woods which another tribute ate and died. Cato was the last opponent. After they got some sleep they went to the Cornucopia hoping Cato would show up there. He soon did, while being chased by wolves. Everyone got on top of the cornucopia. A battle begins and Katniss kills Cato at the threat of him killing Peeta. They thought they won but a gamemaker reverses the rule change previously announced. Once again there can only be one victor. The Capitol
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 is a hunter and Peeta worked in a bakery. They both knew that survival was not only important for themselves, but also their families, they had no time to be normal
Rue helps Katniss by warning her of the tracker jacker nest and aids her to eliminate the other tribute. Katniss also has Peeta who fakes love with
For this task I will be presenting about Katniss Everdeen from the hunger games and how she is a tragic hero and I will be relating this back to the greek hero Oedipus. What makes a hero, a hero as stated by the reproject “Are people who transform compassion (a personal virtue) into heroic action (a civic virtue). In doing so, they put their best selves forward in service to humanity. A hero is as an individual or a network of people that take action on behalf of others in need, or in defense of integrity or a moral cause” (prezi.com). As you all know Katniss is the main character of hunger games and is identified as a tragic hero from the beginning to the end of the story.
At the interview in the team it 's back to the room. HayMitch, Effie, and peeta told Katniss the reason for him doing that. It was a plan, to show that Katniss was desirable to the sponsors and audience. A couple days later, the tributes head to the arena to officially start the games. The tributes are given 10 secs to map out there to get supplies from the cornucopia and survive.
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.
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.
“Hero’s are made by the path they choose, not the power they are graced with.” - Brodi Ashton. Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of this novel, who has to obey society’s unfair rules. Katniss chooses volunteers for her sister Primrose at the district 12 reaping to participate in a yearly event called The Hunger Games. She is forced to fight against the other tributes chosen from the other districts.
In the first installment of the Hunger Games series we are greeted to the character Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and her family reside in the lowly District 12, the coal mining district, where the felling of death and despair is a guarantee. After the death of her father in a coal mining accident Katniss must do whatever she must in order to ensure the survival of her family and herself. Directed by Gary Ross the film was both a critical and financial success.
Theme # 1- No matter what tyrannical environment you live in, your identity can never be changed The Hunger Games focuses on the theme of identity and how it is immutable in any tyrannical environment. This tells the audience that no one can take away your identity and it can only be controlled by you. In the movie, 24 tributes are forced to enter a game where they kill each other in order to survive which led them to losing their identity and becoming pawns to entertain the people of the Capitol.
Katniss goes through each and every part, becoming a hero without even knowing it. The first part of the Hero’s Journey is Departure, which is when the hero starts their journey. Katniss gets her Call to Adventure at the Selection Ceremony, for the annual Hunger Games. Her sister Prim gets chosen,
One afternoon Shirley Jackson decided to write “The Lottery,” all in one day. Jackson sets up the story by describing specific details about the town and where they were gathering to form a twisted end. “The Lottery,” and “The Hunger Games,” seem to have quite a few similarities. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson both show how humans are drawn to violent traditions and the hypocrisy human’s possess towards violence. I do believe author Suzanne Collins was influenced by Jackson to create her novels.
Katniss and Peeta develop a complicated relationship throughout the novel, and conflicts of interests, plus the entire nature of their relationship can be can be easily scrutinized, once closely examined. From the beginning of the novel, Peeta goes out of his way to care for Katniss, and at one point suffers phsical abuse from his mother in order to feed her a loaf of bread. “The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast 32 was clear, then, his attention back on the pig, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction. The second quickly followed, and he sloshed back to the bakery, closing the kitchen door tightly behind him.” (Collins 32).
On the other hand, there is Capitol who has political control in the nation of panem. The story starts when each district must offer a male and female between the ages of 12-18 at a public reaping as a penance for their uprising. The tributes which are male and female shall be delivered to the Capitol and then transferred to a public arena where they will fight with other district until a lone victor remains. This tradition called the hunger games. The story centers was coming from poor district 12 where Katniss and Peeta as their tributes.
Katniss learns how to be more selfless and not let coming from district 12 define who she is and what she can do. Katniss is a strong, force,and selfless charter who the readers can see a little bit of themselves in her as she develops through the story. The readers also strive to be a little bit more like Katniss everyday because she has the strength and willpower to complete any task that she puts her mind too. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is an amazing book for readers of all