Katniss Everdeen's The Hunger Games

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Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is a thrilling bone-chilling, mind numbing, nerve wracking novel about a sacrificial game that is played every year to strike fear in the opposers. Each year a young boy and girl are randomly chosen by each district.In this story a girl name Katniss Everdeen is chosen instead of her sister…

Katniss Everdeen is taken in as an apprentice before thrown in. She learns skills from a former champion in the Hunger Games... Haymitch Abernathy her drunk mentor. She also meets Peeta her partner.After they arrive at the Training Center, Katniss and Peeta meet their stylists. Katniss is pleasantly surprised when she meets Cinna, a young man who dresses simply.In a strategy that has never been used before, …show more content…

They stand in a circle around the metal Cornucopia, a giant golden horn that holds supplies and weapons, meant to lure the tributes in for a bloodbath. Haymitch has instructed Katniss not to run toward the Cornucopia, but to run as far away as she can and find water immediately. Upon seeing a bow and quiver of arrows, however, Katniss questions Haymitch's advice and readies herself to retrieve them from the Cornucopia, but as she does so, she sees Peeta shaking his head at her, which distracts her long enough to make her miss the opening gong that releases the tributes. She runs in just far enough to retrieve a single backpack and then takes off into the woods, where she is most comfortable. She runs all day, placing as much distance as she can between herself and the other tributes, while taking stock of her surroundings. …show more content…

This year, two tributes can win so long as they come from the same district. Katniss immediately sets out to find Peeta, whom she knows has been injured badly. She finds him camouflaged in mud and in bad shape. The gash on Peeta's leg from where he had been struck has become severely infected. Katniss takes him to a cave where he can heal in safety and, while there, she works hard to give the audience what it wants, which is romance, knowing that satisfying them will earn their support in the form of gifts. She knows, too, that if she plays the audience right, Haymitch and any sponsors he can find will deliver the very necessary gifts at the right time. She kisses Peeta and talks sweetly to him. They continue to flirt in the cave, but Peeta gets blood poisoning and Katniss knows that he won't live much longer without

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