Katniss Everdeen Character Analysis

English 2B
Batish Amirr
4/24/18

Katniss Everdeen

Katniss is tough, self-sufficient, extremely loyal girl. Whose childhood was cut very short by taking up the household role as the provider and protector after her father died. Katniss’s mother went into depression, so Katniss took that role of providing for the family. Katniss is hunter she hunts outside her district. What she catches she sells or trades to bring back food for her family. Katniss’s father taught her how to hunt. Katniss, volunteers for her sister Prim, who is 12 and was the chosen female tribute of District 12. And I’m convinced that she’s a feminist character not because she wields a bow and arrow, but because while in the arena she learns to recognize, value, and eventually embrace feminine strengths. It’s her ability to find strength in other women and to support them in return that makes the

girl on fire a feminist.

During the games Katniss becomes friends with Rue she forms a feminist relationship with her. They supported each other based on intuition and emotion. Rue rescues Katniss when she was hurt and saved her. Katniss has always played a big sister/mother role in Prim’s life, she becomes a sister for Rue while in the games. It was an act of kindness to return the favor. Katniss and Rue think of a plan to defeat the capital to help each other Unfortunately, Rue is caught in a net and then is killed by another tribute. After Katniss find out that Rue got murdered, she holds Rue by singing until her life fades out of her. She then does her first real act of rebellion towards the Capitol by covering Rue with flowers and then touches the three middle fingers of her left hand and holds it up to the cameras that are filming her gloss for the joy of others. This sign was a gesture from her district
“occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love” (Collins 24). Katniss does this to show that the Capitol does not control her, that they have not broken her, and that she recognizes another innocent life that has been taken by the meaningless games to Katniss Rue’s death meant a lot to her it showed that Rue is not a character on television show that she was a person whose life had been cut short.

This act represents that all people should have the same rights and equal opportunity. In the games Rue is just a little girl that has been picked to fight The Hunger Games and everybody else is bigger than her. Rue never stood a chance in the games. Collins has created that world where there is not equal opportunism for people. And the simple fact that lighter skinned people are wealthier than those with dark skin.

As far as right go for women Katniss was willing to commit suicide with Peeta. It was not for the fact that she and Peeta love each other and that they are willing to die for each other. It was all for the simple fact to rebel against the capital. The capital wants a victor and without there be a last person standing they have lost. The point of The Hunger Games is for the capital to show all districts that they oversee them and that they control them. Therefor no victor means that the capital has lost. Katniss and Peeta were about to commit suicide and the capital named them both victors of the game. The act shown by both was the fact that they were fighting for equal right. Katniss more or so was fighting for Rue as she stated after her death "I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do that there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I." (Collins 18). Katniss about to take her own life was that act of defiance. Katniss and Peeta both be the symbol of both sexes trying to fight of when major empire which is the capital. They are fighting the greater good.

It really hard to say whether Katniss embody’ s feminism or rejects it because she possesses male attributes as she demonstrates through the whole book.

Katniss is a hunter, self-sacrificing, not very romantic and does not share emotions. She is the Provider and a protector of her family which is usually a male role. Katniss is given masculine and some men are given feminine attributes in the book it makes it seem like men and women are equal. their attributes allow for fluidity with gender and create a much more open world where women be stronger and men be more emotional without shame. Because of this view Katniss is taking place of male hero in the novel and Peeta is taking place of women in the novel. Peeta is the girl with Katniss. Peeta shows his feminine attributes when he starts crying and presents his undying love for Katniss. He openly weeps (Collins 40-41), he has been in love with Katniss from afar, he is a baker, and is known for creating beautiful flowers on the cakes that he sells at his family’s bakery. He even physically matches the more feminine characters in Katniss’s

life.

Katniss’s feminine role is very important to the novel. She is the protector of her family as she protects them, feeds them, and she plays a mother/ big sister role for Prim due to the face that her mother is in deep depression. Katniss’s survival depends on her ability to form a bond not with Prim or Rue but her mother. Mrs. Everdeen’s example is the way that Katniss can survive the games because she did not show her love for Peeta at the time and was unprepared to work with him. Peeta gets injured in the games and Katniss saves him by putting herself in her mother shoes she forced herself to recall how her mother took care of her patients. As Katniss stated “I’ve seen my mother tie a tourniquet a handful of times” (Collins 332). Katniss saves Peeta’s life. It would not have happened if she did not relate herself to her mother. Her role is important because she ends up relating to her mother unconsciously imagining that Peeta touches her the way that her father must have touched her mother and how he talks to her the way her father must have talked to her mother by endoing that she discovers/forms a relationship with her mother and she discovers her true love for Peeta that she did not see before.

The strength of any person–regardless of gender–is to be confident in who they are, and be willing to trust themselves, but to also be open to others’ advice/experience/act.
Katniss does this. She does not allow herself to be manipulated and changed regardless of how much others (the Capitol and the Rebels, etc.) try. She remains true to herself, trusting her own judgement, but is not so arrogant to think the ere is no room for growth. That is a strong person–again regardless of gender.