Character Analysis of Katniss Everdeen‚ The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen is a 16-year-old girl who lives in a poor coal-mining region called District 12‚ in the country of Panem. She volunteers for herself instead of her younger sister to participate in the potentially deadly annual Hunger Games. As her father was killed in an accident‚ Katniss has taken on the role of her family’s head of household. Katniss’s mother was unable to cope with the loss and is deeply depressed. Filling her father’s
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Character Sketch of Katniss Everdeen Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist and narrator of the novel The Hunger Games by Suzane Collins. All the events that happen in the novel have an influence on her. Katniss is 16 years old with straight long black hair usually worn in a braid. She has gray eyes‚ and olive skin. These traits are common in the Seam in the lower class miners of District 12. To begin with‚ when she’s in the woods‚ she wears everyday clothes and always carries a bow and arrows to
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girl named Katniss Everdeen. She is a tough hunter and provides food for her family due to her father’s death and her mother’s illness. She also has a younger sister‚ Primrose. Every year there is a Hunger Games reaping. The reaping of the Hunger Games is when one boy and one girl from each district are forced to participate in The Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV. Primrose gets picked for this event and Katniss volunteers to take her place. Throughout this novel‚ Katniss faces many
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I am reading a book called the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. She is caring‚ kind and brave. She lives with her mother and her sister Prim. Katniss hunts with a guy named Gale. They are friends but they both have feelings more than just a friendship for each other. She lives in District twelve. There are districts because North America didn’t like President Snow’s rules. The country would fight him and bicker. So he called North America Panem. He divided
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The main character in The Hunger Games‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ is a strong and independent teenager who has to conquer many gruesome challenges. The challenges she faces not only require being strong physically‚ but also emotionally. I personally can’t even imagine living in Katniss’s society‚ where being in horrible and life-threatening situations is very common. Fortunately‚ Katniss has the skills and personality to overcome these obstacles. Throughout the story‚ there are three specific situations
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Katniss Everdeen being the protagonist is a strong independent girl who is determined to provide for her family. Katniss decides to protect her sister and volunteers to take Prim’s place in The Hunger Games. In the film she states “ I volunteer! “I volunteer as tribe!”. Katniss embraces courage since she takes her sister’s place. In one of the scenes she needed to take courage when she had to face Cato at the lake. She was frightened since Cato is a strong competitor in the games. She had to also
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This can explain why Christianity is the leading religion with over 2.1 billion members. Katniss Everdeen‚ although a fictional character‚ is another great example of a leader who makes sacrifices because in the books she lead people of the strict rule of the Capitol. One of the first sacrifices the reader sees her make is when she was placed in
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From reaching my little sister.””(The Hunger Games). Katniss Everdeen‚ a fictional character‚ is a pillar of strength throughout Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games‚ published in 2008. The heroine of the book‚ shows that you don’t need supernatural powers to be a hero. Her selflessness‚ bravery‚ and skillful demeanor help her survive in a broken world of injustice and tyranny. When her beloved father died and her mother mentally checked out‚ Katniss knew protecting her delicate sister Prim had become
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question of whether Katniss Everdeen‚ of ’The Hunger Games‚’ confirms or challenges the idea of an archetypal hero is one debated worldwide. Throughout the novel‚ written by Suzanne Collins‚ Katniss demonstrates qualities and undertakes actions which are‚ without a doubt‚ heroic. However‚ whether or not this makes her a hero is dependent upon who you are asking; many characters in the novel would have very different ideas as to what a hero is. Also‚ although Katniss may come off as a hero many times in
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When you hear the word hero‚ or heroine‚ who do you think of? Is the person real or or not? I think that Saint Joan of Arc is a heroine. She is famous for leading the French into war against the English at a young age. I also think of Katniss Everdeen as a heroine. She is the lead characters of one of my favorite book series‚ The Hunger Games Trilogy. There are many similar and different characters between these two heroines. Saint Joan of Arc was a military leader who grew up in a small town in
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