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The Hunger Games: Katniss Everdeen's Character Change

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“I stare in the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not. “ Katniss Everdeen the main character from the series The Hunger Games undergoes a wide character development through the books. Reasons for her change are all the more worth discussing about. Katniss has undergone a character arc due to some strong influencers like, The Games she participated in. Also her problematic relationship with the capital and the rebellion. Also the strong love for Gale and Peeta. These are all contributing factors to the change in Katniss forcing her from a passive girl to a determined, defiant girl. “We sit in silence awhile and then I blurt out the thing that’s on both our minds. “How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?” Before the games started, Katniss’ sister was selected in the reaping. She immediately volunteered as tribute and then went to the Games. She killed many people and also lost a good friend of hers. After the games, in the very beginning of Catching Fire, her and Gale were hunting a turkey and she shot an arrow and had a flashback of her killing someone and she freaked out. I …show more content…

She knew she had to be strong for them just in case anything happened to them. She’s always been afraid to get hopeful, trust anyone, or rely on anyone. She’s been on her own for most of her life until The Hunger Games. “It’s the things we love the most that destroy us” here she expresses that she can’t be to hopeful on love because it might weaken her. She also represents the symbol of rebellion because what she did during the games encouraged the people from other districts to act out on the Capital. During the hunger games tour, the people honored and respected her for what she did, but they wanted to hear the real her not what the capital wanted to hear. People look up to her and want to be like her. She changed the way she acted for the

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