How Did Katniss Change Throughout The Hunger Games

In the beginning, Katniss was just a girl from the Seam, willing to do whatever was necessary to keep her family alive and well. She was civilized, albeit rough around the edges. When she went to the Capital, she became what society would think of as a girl, with the dresses, and the makeup and the hair done well, using utensils neatly and being totally normal. She was a member of society by all accounts. As her time in the arena drew closer, she became more accustomed to the Capital and its ways, she became softer, more adapted to the comfort of the Capital, with its rich food and lush quarters. Then she was thrown into the arena, forced to fight for her very survival, she reverted back to her time in District 12, eating pine bark and creeping
Katniss didn’t want to be in the Games, and Ralph didn’t want to be on the island, yet they were. Neither of them had the wish to be uncivilized. Katniss didn’t want to kill her fellow tributes, and Ralph didn’t want to harm any of the savages. The situations they were put in didn’t allow for what the characters wanted though. Katniss wasn’t allowed to deny participating in the Hunger Games, she wasn’t allowed to stand up to the Capital and refuse to participate in the Games. Ralph couldn’t say that he didn’t want to fight the savages, he couldn’t show them that he meant no harm, he couldn’t control what they did because they were unwilling to listen to him. Ralph and Katniss’s only choices were to fight or be killed, so they fought. They both fought, but what is intriguing is that at first, they both tried to hide as well. Ralph tried to hide among the thick brambles and creepers, and Katniss tried to hide in the forests and in the trees. They both made an effort to avoid conflict, but in the end, conflict found them both. When it did, they had similar reactions as well. Ralph stabbed a savage, harming him, while Katniss dropped a nest of Tracker Jacker beetles on the Careers as a way to get the Careers away from her. This just further proves the idea that in the right circumstances, if put in the right situation, anybody is able to harm others. It may not be their wish, it may not be what they want to do, but in the event that a person’s life is at stake, they will harm the person attempting to harm them, in the hopes that it will preserve their life.In Lord of the Flies, fire is the driving factor behind Ralph’s separation from Jack and the savages. Ralph wants to keep a fire going so that a passing ship might see and come and rescue the boys from the island, but the boys don’t want to maintain a fire, they want to hunt and kill. This differing of opinion causes