How Do Katniss Make Tough Decisions

Growing up I learned that in life, a person always comes across a point where he or she has to make a tough decision or a sacrifice. That sacrifice could be for his/her happiness, someone else, or almost anything in the world. In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss, the narrator, goes through a journey in her life where she had to make tough decisions and sacrifices. While reading about some of Katniss’s decisions, I could relate to the way she was feeling and why she had to make these choices.
Family or people that are close like family, are usually the main reason for a person to make a tough decision or a sacrifice. When I was 10 years old, I remember my sister and I breaking our dad’s favorite camera. I told her to throw me the camera from across the room and I was going to catch it. She warned me that I wasn’t going to catch it, but I had way too many confidences that I would. My sister threw it, but I

wasn’t ready yet. The camera dropped to the floor and at the moment my sister and I knew we both was in trouble. We rushed the camera back to our dad’s room and continue our day like nothing happened. Later that day, our dad found out and blamed it all on my sister. I sat there and watch her get yelled at for something she didn’t do by herself. At that moment, I knew had to make a tough decision and not let my sister take all the blame for it. I told my dad that it was me who broke the camera and I received the punishment that my sister was going to receive.
In the book Hunger Games, Katniss and her little sister Prim were both forced into participating in The Hunger Games.

This was Prim’s first time ever being eligible to participate in these games. Both Katniss and Prim were scared for themselves, but were also even more scared for each other. Katniss knew she had to be the big sister and try not to show her fear on her face. Everybody from all the other districts came together for the starting of the games. The game starts with the mayor at the podium explaining the game and the rules of it. The drawing starts and Prim was one of the people selected to participate in the game. According to the book, Katniss handled hearing that like everyone expected “trying to remember how to breathe, unable to speak, totally stunned as the name bounces around the inside of my skull” (p.21). This is the feeling I had when I heard my sister getting screamed at for something that wasn’t totally her fault. After coming back to her senses, Katniss grabs Prim and sacrifices herself into the game instead of

Prim.
Katniss made a tough decision and a huge sacrifice by entering herself into the game instead of her sister entering. Katniss showed a lot of bravery and how much she really cares for her little sister. The decision I made was not as brave and big as Katniss’s decision, but I saw some similarity between both of them; sometimes family can make you make a quick in the moment decision that shows how much you really care and love them.