Analysis Of Katniss Everdeen's 'The Hunger Games'
In The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen’s life is very difficult and her livelihood is to keep her family safe. Despite her best efforts of keeping her sister Prim safe and her name out of the tesserae, nonetheless, her name came out of the reaping bowl. Therefore, in order to keep Prim from becoming a tribute in the games, Katniss volunteers in Prim’s place. Prims survival in the Hunger Games is fearfully slim, however Katniss’s chances of surviving is much greater. Katniss’s ability to utilize her hunting and survival techniques increases her odds of winning the Hunger Games. Katniss lives in a district where food is difficult to come by. Henceforth hunger is part of everyday life, but despite that, it helps her in the games. Furthermore,
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Rue tells Katniss that the Careers have food and are not starving like the remaining tributes. Thus, enlightened by the this thought, Katniss decides that by destroying their food they’ll be just as hungry as the rest of the tributes, since “the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don’t know how to be hungry. Not the way Rue and I do” (Collins, 208). Hence she takes advantage of the Career’s major weakness, which is taking what they rely on the …show more content…
This does not only when it comes to hunting for animals, however for people too. Instance, Katniss was observing the scene of where the Careers had a pyramid of supplies, before she did anything she looks at the pyramid and thinks there has to be a catch. “Some other factor is at play here, and I’d better stay put until I figure it out what it is” (Collins, 216). Latter Katniss spots Foxface emerging out of the woods. She watches Foxface move around like a some sort of dance, heading toward the pyramid of supplies. As Katniss watches she see Foxface fall. Katniss thinks “why did she squeal so as her hands made contact with the earth” and then she whispers “it’s mined” (Collins, 218-219). If Katniss didn’t take her time, she would have seen what Foxface had done and put together the fact that the surroundings of the pyramid of supplies were mined. It was truly a matter of life and death for
Rue tells Katniss that the Careers have food and are not starving like the remaining tributes. Thus, enlightened by the this thought, Katniss decides that by destroying their food they’ll be just as hungry as the rest of the tributes, since “the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don’t know how to be hungry. Not the way Rue and I do” (Collins, 208). Hence she takes advantage of the Career’s major weakness, which is taking what they rely on the …show more content…
This does not only when it comes to hunting for animals, however for people too. Instance, Katniss was observing the scene of where the Careers had a pyramid of supplies, before she did anything she looks at the pyramid and thinks there has to be a catch. “Some other factor is at play here, and I’d better stay put until I figure it out what it is” (Collins, 216). Latter Katniss spots Foxface emerging out of the woods. She watches Foxface move around like a some sort of dance, heading toward the pyramid of supplies. As Katniss watches she see Foxface fall. Katniss thinks “why did she squeal so as her hands made contact with the earth” and then she whispers “it’s mined” (Collins, 218-219). If Katniss didn’t take her time, she would have seen what Foxface had done and put together the fact that the surroundings of the pyramid of supplies were mined. It was truly a matter of life and death for