Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games was a hunter who became part of a game where one girl and one boy from each district would fight till the death were there would be only one person standing for a punishment of the uprising. Another man Rainsford, a famous hunter from The Most Dangerous Game came to an island after falling of his ship. Later to be hunted by a man who had became bored with hunting just any ordinary animal. In these cases Katniss and Rainsford both have experienced the hunter becoming the hunted. Where humans become prey and where there is only one winner, throughout each story Katniss and Rainsford have shown many similar traits as a true survivor such as their intelligence, independence, and their will to survive. …show more content…
During The Hunger Games, Katniss lit fires to lead other districts in the opposite direction from where she was going and Rainsford from The Most Dangerous Game lead footprints in the opposite direction from where he was going. They both also had used high grounds when sitting or sleeping in a tree in order to hide from their predators. While out in the woods having someone hunt you, you have to be fast acting which is exactly what both characters did in there individual stories. When getting chased by a herd of dogs he made another trap to try and slow down the dogs and later when the trap failed to catch a dog, he made the decision into the sea. Now katniss was fast acting when The Hunger Games first started she immediately got water and set a food trap, also when someone attempted to shoot her with an arrow her first reaction was to move and that's when her alliance Rue was hit the arrow instead if Katniss. So, while doing these tactics in order to survive it shows that they both portrayed the trait of intelligence and knowledge while out in the
In the novel The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen did many courageous things to help Peeta and try and keep both of them alive as long as possible. By doing so Peeta and her won the Hunger Games. She saved Prim from going into the Games and saved Peeta from dying during
After accomplishing the impossible and defying the Capitol in the process, she returns home a heroine. Katniss becomes the symbol for uprisings and rebellions, and is looked up to by many. Nobody had accomplished what she had, and it says a lot about Katniss Everdeen as a heroine. In the end, Katniss and Peeta are crowned by President Snow as co-victors of the Hunger Games.
Science fiction writers create a particular setting not only to entertain readers but to give clues on lessons they believe human beings are struggling to understand. In both books, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are introduced as the main characters to project the criticisms made by the author. Susan Collins creates a Dystopian society ruled by the Capital. Different areas of their country, named Panem, are separated into different districts. Two kids from each of the twelve districts are chosen at random to fight in an arena until 1 tribute is left, this is called The Hunger Games Both Peeta and Katniss fight together during the hunger games as a team from District 12. Between the two books, Collins portrays the idea that humans tend to be disrespectful and insulting, depending on another's wealth and/or authority and power. Both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire connect with readers but also indicated the problem with certain human behaviors that most people don't notice or fail to
Knowing how tough it would be for herself to lose her sister and how low her survival chances were coming out of a poor district such as her own District 12, she volunteered to participate. In other words, she went against the system to protect her loved one, in exchange she risked her’s. As the reader reads further in the book, he will realize how much Katniss will become more mature and will take more decision with her head. Due to her young rebellious teen mind when the reader discovers her, she takes more decisions with her heart rather than her head such as volunteering for the Hunger Games as a tribute. During the preparations to the Games, she encounters Haymitch
The Hunger Games follows the structure of monomyths closely. Katniss, the byronic heroine, volunteers to take her sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games, where tributes fight to death to entertain the totalitarian Capitol. At the beginning of the Game, Katniss identifies herself a girl from the seam, which provides her with a stoic strength. However, as the hunt progresses, Katniss questions this identity. As she observes the brutality of the Hunger Game, Katniss grows indignant. Ultimately, the heroine appears empathetic and distains causing sufferings as opposed to being a stoic girl.
Katniss is the main character in the novel, The Hunger Games. The author of this book is Suzanna Collins. Katniss is a 16 year old who has been chosen with 23 other tributes. In my class we have studied themes and key ideas such as Power of the Capitol, Competition against other tributes and Sacrifice for what Katniss acts and does in the Hunger Games. There are many themes but I have chosen these 3 because they show the most emotions and power.
It has often been said that there is nothing new under the sun. In this vein, authors across all literary genres often borrow themes and plot from the stories of long ago. Many of those authors choose to borrow from the rich mythology of the ancient Greeks. Suzanne Collins has been asked on numerous occasions where the idea for The Hunger Games originated. She readily admits that the characters and plot come from Greek mythology and more specifically, from Theseus and the Minotaur (Margolis 30). One familiar with both both stories can easily recognize the identical framework upon which each of these stories are built. Both Theseus and Katniss Everdeen, Collins’ heroine, volunteer to go into battle for their respective homelands, they both fight beasts of strange origin, and they are both brave in battle and emerge victorious, but it is the uniqueness of the characters that makes each story appropriate for the time period and audience to which it belongs. Collins modernizes the classic hero of Theseus by changing his gender, his motivations and altering his selfish personality, and by doing these things she creates a heroine that better resonates with today's audience of young adults.
In “The Lottery,” Mrs. Hutchinson says, “`It isn’t fair,’ she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head” (Jackson 7). Mrs. Hutchinson does not even try to get away, she only stands there and lets the townspeople kill her. She does not try to stand up to her society at all and she shows how she does not even try to change her fate. She only stands still and does not try to get away. Though these stories both have a female protagonist, The Hunger Games has a protagonist who stands up to her society in time to save herself. In The Hunger Games, the main character, Katniss, is one of the two participants still alive at the end of The Hunger Games. She and her fellow district mate, Peeta Mellark, are both still alive. The government says only one of them may win. Katniss convinces Peeta to eat deadly berries. They are just about to eat the berries when they are both declared the winners. Katnisss is reacting to the rule change. She is showing how she is not going to stand by and let the government control her. Katniss shows people should stand up for what they believe in and to not give into their society and to not be controlled. Both of the stories have a female protagonist differing how and when they stand up for themselves.
The movie The Hunger Games, originally based on a book by Suzanne Collins, is about a place called Panem, which is ruled by the Capitol and has 12 districts within it. These 12 districts are separated founded on their economic statuses, meaning the higher the district, the more impoverished the residents are. There are 2 tributes that are chosen to participate, forcibly, in The Hunger Games each year. Each competitor is instructed to eliminate one another in order to survive and come out on top. There is only one tribute allowed to come out of the arena alive. Katniss lives in District 12, which is the most impoverished district of them all, and she volunteers as tribute in “the Reaping” when her sister is chosen to participate. She and the other tribute from her district, Peeta, make it into the arena with the hopes that one of them comes out the winner and above all else, alive (Ross, 2012). I will refrain from going any further just in case you have not read the book or have not seen the movie. In terms of soci...
Katniss Everdeen and Beowulf were both volunteers to protect their people. Katniss volunteered for her district, in place of her sister, to fight in the hunger games. There was a good chance that she would
The first difference I saw in the Hunger Games was that people from different districts are not supposed to talk to each other, let alone go to another district. It was against the law to go to another district. Katniss did not like to talk to others anyway, just being by herself in the woods made her more comfortable. She did not like the socialization factor mostly because she thought she was not as good or as classy as the others. Her personality traits suffered as well, from not being more outgoing as a child. She thought as long as she kept to herself, she would be okay. Without these social connections, Katniss would have lost the key functions in our society today.
Underestimated by her competitors, she was able to rise her way to the top by pulling out he secret weapons. Her hunting abilities, problem solving skills, and ability to think on the spot may not seem like super powers; however, they helped her survive and win the hunger games. Like Tris, Katniss also had a supernatural aid. Peeta was able to help Katniss make it through the games and they both made it out alive. Two to protagonists , Tris and Katniss, are alike in many ways and they both have the self-respecting, strong, smart, and independent qualities that one would expect to find in a
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor” (Collins 19). Those were some of the last words Katniss heard before her sister’s name was called out for the seventy-fourth Hunger Games. Without thinking about anyone else, Katniss bravely accepted her sister’s spot in the games, a basic suicide mission. Katniss Everdeen had a vibrant personality, she was bold, intelligent, and a loving person. Her country, Panem, was controlled by President Snow, who let his country suffer in poverty. The capital was harsh and forces every district to send one boy and one girl to take part in the yearly Hunger Games. While a Disney Princess would yell for her
This trait being perseverance which appears in the novel more times than once. At one point in the narrative, Katniss is dehydrated and on the verge of death, but she realises that the solution to her particular problem would be to find water no matter how difficult it may be to fulfill that task. The text states, “I grit my teeth and pull myself to my feet...The sun’s beating down, even more searing than the first two days. I feel like an old piece of leather, drying and cracking in the heat. Every step is an effort, but I refuse to stop.”(pg. 169). The quote given shows the exact amount of immense agony that Katniss is experiencing and how ardous of a task it is to move forward. Yet, Katniss does not give up once and decides to continue as getting to the thing she needs most requires her own tenacity and motivation. During the duration of the novel, the Capitol manipulates the games to set up a fire attack against the remaining tributes which forces Katniss to maneuver and think quickly to persevere through the brutal attack. The text states, on page 175, “Every sense I have goes into overdrive as the need for to survive takes over. There’s no time to judge if a move is the correct one.
In The Hunger Games, the main character named Katniss finds her own way around the games. Katniss is not the person who likes to kill, she tried her best to kill as few people as possible, yet not get herself killed. Katniss hated the idea of the hunger games, so she wanted to try to find a way to stop it. Over the course of many books/movies, Katniss was able to go her own way and rebel against the rich people. She was unique, Katniss was able to get many people to respect her and help her fight against the rich. Like any other person, Katniss could have just followed the instructions given to her to be safe. However, this is not who she is, Katniss stuck up for what she believed in. She had a decision to defeat the rich and try to end the games, and she stuck to it. There are many movies and books in the arts that show people not following the crowd. So many show how people can be unique and be there own person. Any body can take there own road, just like