Peeta Mellark Hero's Journey

Often in literature, comparing stories will lead to revelations about human nature. Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games both share a motif of being trapped and take human nature to another level. Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games prove that working together and looking out for each other will give you a greater shot at victory.

The Hunger games as you all are in common with was created by a bias capitol. Katniss shows hamartia from the start of the movie till the very end. Katniss has a sister Prim, who was picked during the Reaping day, a day in which a male and female are chosen out of random from the age 12-18 to fight in the hunger games. This was the start of Katniss’s tragic hero life and in which her awareness and eager for information led her to her tragic flaw. It could be seen that she showed a display of tragic hero via her volunteering for her sister at the reaping day or how she outsmarted the Capitol. However out smarting the Cruel capitol was her tragic flaw as she thought everything had come to an end but in reality it could be seen, she caused a higher grudge against the capitol by all the districts leading to uprises and more deaths through the districts. “Heroes during current times often reflect many of the same plot

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. Then she took him to a cave to keep him safe. Katniss fed, bathed and even kissed Peeta to make him healthy again. Katniss also risked her life to get Peeta medicine, this medicine healed

In the book, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is a strong character with many admirable traits. She lives in an unspecified futuristic time period in a nation called Panem with twelve districts. Every year in Panem, an event takes place called The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a televised battle where each district of Panem sends a girl and a boy tribute, or participant, to fight to the death. One year, Katniss’s sister is chosen to be a tribute from her district, but Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place because she can’t stand the thought of losing her. Throughout the Hunger Games, Katniss demonstrates courage and bravery. She also shows that she is very caring and is more than just the tough girl that she is made out to be. Additionally, she is very trustworthy. Throughout The Games, Katniss goes through many difficult, life changing events that demonstrate to the reader her strongest traits.

Even though Katniss believed at first that Peeta was allied with the other tributes and was against her, she comes to know that he was actually trying to protect her. Suddenly the Game-makers change the rules, and instead of having a winner, two tributes from the same district can win. Therefore, Katniss sets off to find him and ally him. Eventually she finds him, but he is wounded and is dying. She takes care of him and brings him back to health. Furthermore, she realizes that by acting like star-crossed lovers they can get gift form survivors, which can help them with the

The book Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins is the book I read over the last couple weeks. In the book, there are multiple external and internal conflicts. One of them is between the districts and the Capitol. In the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen “defies” the capital at the end of the Hunger Games, which leads to all 12 districts to start an uprising. This is the external conflict. However, the internal conflict is Katniss and her feelings for Peeta Mellark. Peeta and Katniss fell in love in the Hunger Games, and they were the two victors of the Games. Katniss struggles with her feelings for Peeta, but also with her best friend Gale. The external conflict reaches a solution when the Capitol becomes reckless with the districts. More specifically President Snow, begins ordering the Gatekeepers into the districts and set their homes on fire, whip anyone who disobeys, etc. Internally, Katniss reaches a solution when she gets separated from Peeta. Peeta is

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire exemplifies the epitome of a suspenseful action film full of redeeming qualities. Through the actions of vivid and memorable characters, the viewer may easily distinguish between the sympathetic and unsympathetic people in the movie. For example, when President Snow blackmails Katniss Everdeen and threatens to kill her family and friends unless she cooperates, the viewer grasps the fact that he is an arrogant, ambitious, and unjust ruler. On the other hand, viewers perceive Katniss, Peeta, Gale, and Katniss ' family as sympathetic, honorable, and sacrificial characters, especially when Katniss is willing to sacrifice her life for Peeta, and Peeta is willing to sacrifice his life for Katniss in the games.

A game of life and death, a test of human conscience, opened. Named "The Hunger Games”, the twelve districts of Panem will choose one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in it every year. The game will be broadcast live in the form of television variety show, and the rule is that 24 contestants will need to fight each other to the death, with the ultimate survivor becoming the winner. He or she can then not only leave the games alive and unscathed except for a battered conscience, and also be able to gain better living conditions. It is an honor to be able to participate in the game, so they train their children to improve their chances of winning. For the living conditions of the suffering, especially in the 12th District, their motivation for taking part in the game was just to get some food for their family. What the games could bring to them was only torture, humiliation and death. In the 73rd annual hunger games, Katniss replaced her sister as tribute. When Katniss and Peeta won the game, sponsored by the lover 's identity they made, they changed the rules of the game, becoming the first pair of winners that game has ever produced. In ‘The Hunger Games," Katniss showed two distinct survival views during the two phases of the game. Before Katniss’s participation in the Games, Panem using brutal regime and suppressed the rebels of the 13th district, getting the other

The Hunger Games is a movie published in 2012, directed by Gary Ross and it is based on the first novel of a dystopian novel trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The movie was a massive box-office success, it was the third-highest-grossing film in the United States of 2012 and by grossing over $691 million worldwide against its estimated budget of $78 million it became the ninth-highest-grossing movie worldwide of 2012 (IMDb). The story takes place at an unspecified time in a future North America, which is now a nation named Panem, where every year one girl and one boy between the ages of 12 and 18 of each of the twelve districts must take part in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are an annual event where the so-called tributes of each district fight

When the Everdeen’s lost their father, they all had no hope, they started to die of hunger but Katniss went to the market and Peeta was instructed to throw the burnt piece’s of bread out to the pigs, but threw one to Katniss instead. Bread symbolizes love and hope. So not just did Peeta giving her bread, he gave her hope, but the bread itself symbolizes hope. Peeta’s bread symbolizes; hope, survival, life and friendship. So when Peeta and Katniss both went into the hunger games she flashbacked to that memory and was reminded of hope, survival, life and friendship. Because she volunterred for Prim, she had

Sacrifice, is made in the beginning of the film all the way to the end of the film. At the beginning of the Hunger Games, Katniss’s sister Prim is chosen as the female tribute, but Katniss chooses to sacrifice her life and volunteers to take her place. As Katniss has a flashback of Peeta in the beginning of the film, to when Peeta threw out a loaf of burnt bread to Katniss. Which was sacrificing getting Peeta into trouble by his father, because the bread is intended to got the the pigs. Rue helps Katniss on two occasions. Rue is putting leaves of Katniss’s tracker jacker wounds, to take out the sting, which could get her killed by the other competitors. Finally, Rue also helps Katniss by burning the branches, so Katniss can destroy the

In the Hunger Games the only reason Katniss Everdeen was in the games was because her sister, Primrose was reaped, in other words she was randomly chosen from her district to fight to the death in the arena. Katniss took it upon herself to volunteer in her place saving her life. But what Katniss didn’t know is that she was only delaying the inevitable. At the end of Catching Fire, the second installment in the Hunger Games series, after Katniss destroys the arena dome, the capitol bombs district 12 in attempts to kill everyone there. Prim escapes with Gale and several others which hints towards Prim's death and that she can’t escape her true fate for a third time. Near the end of the Mockingjay novel Prim is killed by president Coin in an attempt to sway the opinions of the capitol citizens. The “leader” of the rebellion side tried to secretly murder Prim and several other children by dropping bombs from a hovercraft with the capitol symbol on it. This lead to a twist ending where Katniss was supposed to kill president snow in front of all the districts. She went against everyone and decided to spare the already dying president Snow, but aimed her bow up and hit president Coin killing her in front of every district and the citizens of the Capitol. Katniss tried to take a Nightlock pill, which is a purple poisonous pill given to the rebellion soldiers, before Peeta Mellark prevented her from slipping the pill into her

In the film: The Hunger Games, teenagers are picked into a killing games that consists of 24 tributes, two from the 12 districts, one male and one female, to kill each other until one person remains. When the time comes, Katniss did not expect that her sister would be picked in the reaping. It was Prim's first year, afterall, this is her first time. In an attempt, Katniss volunteers for her sister to save her life. She tells her sister that she would try to win for her. Primrose cries and Gale takes her away with her mother. Katniss tells Gale to try to protects her family. They are picked into the death games and the countdown starts. The bloodbath starts and everybody dies. Katniss and Peeta make it until the end, they are the two remaining victors. The Thesis statement of this story is to make it until the end and to make sacrifices with the ones you love. The corrupt government or the capital, presidents snow forces each district to compete with each other.

The third form is the semiconscious, this means that human being are not completely aware of the suffering they are causing but they know someone is suffering. For example in the Capital they are aware tributes get killed during the game for their amusement, but it is not perceived by the people as something they are creating. Another example is Effie, she goes to district 12 so she sees the poverty and dispart of the people living there. Also she gets very excited when she meets the tributes and shows them the food, the clothes ant the place they get to stay for a couple of days. But her unconsciousness is interrupted by Katniss remarks and pain.

Twenty-four tributes are sent into this arena to fight to the death with or without weapons, until there is only one person left standing. This lasted for eighteen days. A bow and arrow, is Katniss’s weapon of choice. During those eighteen days, Katniss had an alliance with Peeta, Rue, and Thresh; a male tribute from District eleven. Deciding to bring Rue into her alliance, Katniss forms a feminine archetype. Women working together in a time of oppression. Sadly, on Day nine, Rue is shot in the abdomen; causing her to die. Katniss places flowers over Rue’s body. Katniss wanted to show the people and Capitol that Rue wasn’t just a player in the game, she was an innocent, young human being. This also shows an act of rebellion against the Capitol. Katniss wanted to shame them in front of every one. On the eighteenth day, Katniss and Peeta are the last two tributes standing, neither wants to kill the other; hence feelings. Katniss comes up with the idea that if the both eat the deadly nightshade berries; committing suicide. Another act of rebellion. The Capitol needs to have a winner, so both Katniss and Peeta are named the victors of the 74th annual Hunger