Character Profile for Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games”

In the Hunger Games book, we are introduced to the hero of the book, Katniss Everdeen. Even though she’s a very young teenager she has a lot of responsibilities since her father was killed in an explosion. She has to provide for her family by hunting for food. Katniss lives with her mother and Prim her little sister in District 12 in Panem. She usually hunts with a guy she thinks is cute, his name is Gale. The problem with her is she’s not really into all the mushy stuff people would usually do (Collins).

Every year the Capitol of Panem host this event called the Hunger Games where two people from each district are chosen at random, it is usually a boy and a girl and if their name is picked they are forced to participate in these games. The Hunger Games is where two people from each district fight to the death and there could only be one person to come out as the victor. The Hunger Games was made to remind the country to not rebel, also for entertainment for the Capitol. In this year’s Hunger Games Katniss’s little sister was picked to be in the Hunger Games, but there was a plot twist and Katniss volunteers for her little sister so her little sister wouldn’t have to be in the Hunger Games. The boy that was picked for the Hunger Games was Peeta Mellark the baker’s son, he also has a little crush on Katniss Everdeen (Collins).

When all the people for the Hunger Games are drafted they are then taken away to the Capitol to prepare for the Hunger Games. We then have their support team, Haymitch who was a former winner in the Hunger Games, Effie their wrangler, and Cinna and Portia are their stylists. At the beginning of the ceremonies Cinna and Portia design a dress and a suit for Peeta and Katniss that goes up in flames to draw attention to themselves, when Peeta has the interview to get to know each candidate in the Hunger Games he announces that he has a really big crush on Katniss Everdeen. He was trying to think of a strategy to give them an edge in the Hunger Games (Collins).

When the Hunger Games is about to start all 24 people are put into tubes and then transported into the arena where they will all fight it out until only one person remains. In the beginning, Katniss is all by herself until she sees that Peeta is with the Career tributes, they are rich kids from their district that actually wanted to be in the Hunger Games. The Career tributes finally corner Katniss into the tree, the smart person she is she sees a tracker jacker nest that a girl named Rue pointed out for her. She then starts to cut the branch of the tracker jacker nest and succeeds, it then drops on top of the Career tributes and makes them run away into the water.

After she cuts off the branch she then looks for rue and then teams up with her, she is a small girl from district 11, and she reminds Katniss about her little sister Prim back at district 12. Together they take out a good portion of the Career tributes food and that makes Cato the leader of the Careers very upset. Peeta at the time is not teamed up with the Careers anymore he goes solo for a short time. When all this happened Rue was killed by one of the Career tributes, but Katniss kills him right before Rue dies in the arms of Katniss. A little time after Rue’s death the announcers change a rule for the Hunger Games, now if you are in the same district and you’re the last two people alive you both win, as soon as that happens Katniss right away calls out for Peeta’s name (Collins).

Katniss then looks for Peeta and eventually finds him near a muddy bank of the stream, he is also wounded. Katniss then nurses him back to health and tries to keep the romance story of theirs alive, so they can get gifts from their sponsors. Katniss and Peeta eventually have to face off with the leader of the Careers Cato. They are also against mutated dogs that are killing machines and are hunting for all three of them. Katniss then shoots Cato and falls over to the dogs and then is eaten up by them, the announcer comes back and changes the rules again they only want one winner, once that happens Katniss remembers she has berries that can kill themselves they both are willing to eat them. They were so close to eating them until the announcer comes back and just lets them both win (Collins).

Katniss and Peeta won in the end, but in their hearts did they really win. The theme for the Hunger Games is love. In the beginning, Peeta straight off the bat says, “”He has a really big crush on Katniss. She always felt something for him because of their connection that was made when they were younger when Peeta gave Katniss bread when she was really hungry. That was the first sign of love in the book that he was in love with her (Collins).

A quote that supports my theme and that is stated in the book is “”Finally, Gale is here and there is probably nothing romantic between us, but when he opens his arms I don’t hesitate to go into them. His body is familiar to me the way it moves, the smell of wood smoke, even the sound of his heart beating she knows from quiet moments on a hunt, but this is the first time I really feel it, lean and hard-muscled against my own. Katniss keeps denying feeling romantic with Gale because there’s a feeling in her that says otherwise (Collins).

Another quote that supports my theme that is stated in the book is “” Haymitch couldn’t be sending me a clearer message. One kiss equals one pot of broth. I can almost hear his snarl. “”You’re supposed to be in love, sweetheart. The boy’s death. Give me something I can work with!”” And he’s right. If I want to keep Peeta alive, I’ve got to give the audience something more to care about. Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance (Collins).

I think that Peeta really does love Katniss, he never stopped loving her ever since he gave her the bread he was always around her and never wanted to be away from her. This was Peeta’s chance to try to make her fall in love with him. He was always there for her in the Hunger Games he tried his best to keep her safe when the announcers announced there could only be one victor he was willing to either kill himself or have her kill him. On Katniss part, she felt like she had very strong feeling for Gale. In the book it doesn’t sound like that at all, she sounds a lot more concerned about Peeta than Gale, it is also like that in the movie. Katniss needs to stop blocking out people that want her to be happy and that will make her happy like Peeta he can make her happy and so can Gale she just needs to choose.

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