Katniss Everdeen Character Analysis

Katniss Everdeen is the narrator and the main protagonist of the book The Hunger Games. She volunteered to take her sister Prim’s place in the yearly Hunger Games. After Katniss did the daring move of volunteering, she started meeting people who would impact her life in some way good or bad. Katniss was very protective of the people in her life that she met before and during the dreadful games like Gale Hawthorn and Haymitch Abernathy. Every person Katniss comes in contact with plays a big part in her life and the amazing and brave person she becomes.

The main adult who shaped Katniss into who she became growing up was her mom, Mrs. Everdeen. Her mom became depressed after the love of her life and Katniss’s dad, died in a mining accident. Her mom stopped talking which made Katniss have to grow up faster than a young child should have too because her and her sister needed someone to depend on. Since Katniss had to step up and take care of herself since she was

He was a major drunk and him and Katniss butted heads a lot of times. He irritates Katniss so much, but she ends up really caring for him in the end. At first he was not going to help her win the game, but he realized that she was worth all the trouble. Haymitch helps her out with his cleverness and he is a main reason she makes it through the games. He came up with the crazy idea so both Katniss and Peeta could win the games and it was a way that he could get back at President Snow. Their relationship might not have started out good because he was always intoxicated, but he always told her how it was and gave her tough love. Haymitch was a father figure to Katniss since she did not have one of her own and that’s how Haymitch thought of her too. He helped her by showing her how to behave and to get more sponsors during the games. He was someone that was always looking out for