Katniss Everdeen Character Analysis Essay
March 22, 2012
English 801A&B
The Hunger Games The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a book about survival. Survival forces you to be courageous, enduring, and most of all do things you’ve never imagined. One of the main characters Katniss Everdeen is forced to change who she is and act like she’s in love in order to survive The Hunger Games. Katniss demonstrates her courageous characteristic when she sacrifices herself and takes her sister’s place in The Hunger Games. Her sister Prim is the closest thing she has ever felt to love, she loves her more than she loves herself. Other than her mother, Prim is all she has and she doesn’t take her family for granted. Therefore when she hears Effie Trinket read her baby sister’s name on the piece of paper pulled from out of the thousand candidates, she freezes in her place. She had the urge to break down in line and cry her eyes out, but that’s not who she is, or who she portrays; she is strong. Her protective instincts take over …show more content…
In the mist of the competition she slowly lost herself, lost her edge she was born with and most of all her dignity. She fell under the Capitol’s spell with their bribes and became what they wanted her to be. While frantically searching for Peeta in the woods she remembered something he said during their private conversation “Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.” And for the first time I understand what he means. I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so I am” (Collins 236, 237). Through all the hectic action, Katniss had found herself
English 801A&B
The Hunger Games The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a book about survival. Survival forces you to be courageous, enduring, and most of all do things you’ve never imagined. One of the main characters Katniss Everdeen is forced to change who she is and act like she’s in love in order to survive The Hunger Games. Katniss demonstrates her courageous characteristic when she sacrifices herself and takes her sister’s place in The Hunger Games. Her sister Prim is the closest thing she has ever felt to love, she loves her more than she loves herself. Other than her mother, Prim is all she has and she doesn’t take her family for granted. Therefore when she hears Effie Trinket read her baby sister’s name on the piece of paper pulled from out of the thousand candidates, she freezes in her place. She had the urge to break down in line and cry her eyes out, but that’s not who she is, or who she portrays; she is strong. Her protective instincts take over …show more content…
In the mist of the competition she slowly lost herself, lost her edge she was born with and most of all her dignity. She fell under the Capitol’s spell with their bribes and became what they wanted her to be. While frantically searching for Peeta in the woods she remembered something he said during their private conversation “Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.” And for the first time I understand what he means. I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so I am” (Collins 236, 237). Through all the hectic action, Katniss had found herself