The Hunger Games Character Essay

The character that I felt strongly about from Suzanne Collins’ hit novel “The Hunger Games” was Katniss Everdeen, a rebellious and out-going teen who takes her sister’s place as tribute in the 74th annual Hunger Games. Throughout the novel, she displays important values that made me feel strongly about her. These include, her caring nature for others, Competitive attitude and her determined mind. Katniss Everdeen (the main character) is a teenage girl who lives in an impoverished coal-mining region in the country of Panem. She showed no fear when she took her sister’s place as tribute as she knew that she had made the morally correct decision. After her father sadly perished in a tragic mining explosion, she learned to fill her father’s shoes as her mother was in no state to support her family. It was Katniss’s strong-willed mindset that got her and her family through those though times. Although she continually displays her traits throughout the novel, she does learn some new values that aid her whilst in the Hunger Games arena. She becomes tactically aware and learns not to trust people as she is in a kill or be killed environment. The main value that made me feel strongly about Katniss was her determination to get things done. Growing up in harsh conditions, “where you can starve to death in safety” taught Katniss to rebel against the rules in order for the survival of herself and her family. With no father and very little income from her mother, there would be numerous nights where her family would have to go to sleep with an empty stomach. Fortunately, Katniss, an experienced Archer could hunt game to either sell or eat. She was the wax that kept her family’s candle of life burning. “It was slow-going at first, but I was determined to feed us. I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew…I kept us alive”. In her modest self, she would say that she is ‘average’ at archery, however she is truly