The Ordinary world is District 12 where Katniss Everdeen lives with her mother and sister and feeds them with food she hunted illegally in her coal mining town. Katniss is comfortable going to school and feeding her family (her daily routine) in their small home in District 12.
Katniss’ sister, Primrose Everdeen, is selected for the Hunger Games and Katniss volunteers as tribute to save/protect her sister. Katniss must volunteer to participate in the Hunger Games in order to save her sister, which means leaving District 12.
Katniss refuses the call by rejecting the life the capital offers her (the luxuries) and by also rejecting Haymitch’s advice. There are many luxuries in the capital, as well as people who mean well and want to help her,
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that Katniss rejects because she does not want to participate in the Hunger Games. On the way to the capital, Katniss and Peeta meet with Haymitch, their guidance, who was the last victor from District 12. He gives advice on how to earn sponsors and survive in the arena. Haymitch is both Katniss’ and Peeta’s mentor throughout the games and advises them on how to survive the games. Katniss begins training for the games and learns/practices survival skills and weapon training. When the tributes begin to practice skills for the games it means that they have entered the competitive and deadly environment that the arena holds. Katniss meets Rue, a future ally when she is being stalked by 4 tributes and Peeta.
Peeta is also an ally, as he did not want them to find her. Her enemies, the “careers”, all want her dead, as she is a large threat. Finally Peeta tests her by becoming allies with the careers to draw them away from her. Katniss’ trust in Peeta is tested when he makes some questionable choices. She makes enemies with the “Careers”, and at the same allies with Rue to get rid of …show more content…
them. After Katniss goes to the cornucopia to get the medicine for Peeta’s wound, he heals.
Then they hunt to retrieve strength and health. They also begin to eliminate the remaining tributes and strategize for the big battle. Both Katniss and Peeta prepare for the showdown with the remaining tributes by healing themselves and planning how to make their survival more likely.
When every tribute is dead besides Katniss, Peeta, and their last enemy, Cato, the “game makers” introduce vicious dogs that almost kill Katniss. The dogs do kill Cato though, when the 3 are on top of the cornucopia. This is the tributes last fight of the game, where both Katniss and Peeta nearly die, either to the dogs, or to the other remaining tribute, Cato.
After Cato is dead, the dogs leave and Katniss and Peeta believe that they have escaped the Hunger Games with their lives. Katniss is supposed to be able to return to her home in District 12 after surviving the Hunger Games with her life.
The sun rises and both Katniss and Peeta believe it is all over when the head Game Maker, Seneca Crane announces that there must be only 1 Victor. Both Katniss and Peeta are supposed to go home since only they remain, but the rules change so that only one person may come out of the arena
alive. Katniss and Peeta decide that one will not leave without the other. They plan to eat the nightshade berries and die together. Seneca Crane stops them and they are allowed to leave the arena as the 74th Hunger Games Champions. Katniss has the idea to use the poisonous berries so that they will die together, so the Capital and the Game Makers won’t have a winner, and so they won’t have to kill each other. Showing the viewers that honor to each other is more powerful. Katniss travels home and Haymitch wars that now that they have both won, the troubles will not end. She returns to district 12 with this lesson in mind and prepares for what’s to come. Katniss and Peeta return to their Ordinary World knowing that their winning the Hunger Games will be a short lived Victory and the Capital will have further plans for them.
Katniss volunteering for the hunger games to take her sister prim's place because prim is just a child in katniss’s eyes. The hunger game arena could Be identified with a maze. Peeta the other tribute for District 12 had fallen in love with Katniss before the reaping. Because of her uniqueness the crowd
Katniss and her fellow member of District 12, Peeta, make it to the final two tributes remaining. They are encouraged to kill each other, but refuse to do so out of love. Katniss and Peeta agreed to commit suicide together to disobey the rules of the Capitol. This is the nadir, or low point, of Katniss Everdeen. She has been left no option but to kill herself along with her partner. This is where her powerful resurrection takes place. Just before ending their lives, they are stopped by one of the creators of the Hunger Games arena. It is then announced that under the circumstances, they would allow both Peeta and Katniss to be victors of the Hunger Games. This gives a very large sense of relief, and both Peeta and Katniss emerge
Katniss volunteered because her sister’s name was randomly chosen on the day of the reaping, the day each year when one known as a tribute is chosen for the Hunger Games. Prim was the minimum age of 12 when she was picked. The author, Suzanna Collins, states “… in District 12 … the word tribute is pretty much synonymous in the word corpse” (Collins 22). Katniss wanted to spare her sister’s life. “Prim … is the only person in the world I’m certain I love” (Collins 10). In the end Katniss not only survives the Hunger Games, but helps her teammate, Peeta Mellark, survive as well. Katniss was motivated to survive because she wanted to get home. “The train begins moving and we’re plunged into night until we clear the tunnel and I take my first free breath since the reaping … I begin to think of home. Of Prim and my mother … I begin transforming back into myself. Katniss Everdeen” (Collins
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
During the beginning of the movie The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen commences her "Hero's Journey". When the movie starts out Katniss' ordinary life is shown to the audience, including her poverty-stricken
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.
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...
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.
Ever since her act of defiance in her first games, the leaders in The Capitol have been outraged with her. She made the conscious decision to disobey the rules. Her and Peeta would have rather killed themselves than be forced to kill one another like the game’s rules were set up, so the head game maker let them both live. The Capitol, and many people in the districts saw this act as defiance, which no one in Panem is allowed to do. But for Katniss, it was the most moral action in a world where morality is questionable. If she decides to play the game how she is supposed to, then she knows she has to die in the arena. At first, Katniss accepts this fate, as long as Peeta is the one to survive. She also knows that if she does not follow through with this plan, her family, friends, and everyone she cares about could potentially be murdered as a result of her actions. If she decides to play the game how it is supposed to go, Katniss can make The Capitol happy and end any potential threats that can lead to an uprising. She knows that his option is probably her best choice because she can protect the ones she loves. She would rather sacrifice herself for the lives of many other people than save herself. In this option, Katniss is choosing the most Utilitarian action to take. With her death, she thinks that peace will be the outcome, and
As an impoverished resident of District 12, the priorities that have shaped Katniss’ identity are those of survival. Whether is it in hunting the fields with her trusty bow and arrow, or trading her catch at the illegal hub, Katniss’ society has enabled her to hold many attributes and attitudes that would traditionally be considered as masculine. Her characteristic plait is done so for functional rather than fashionable purposes; she is a surrogate father over her sister Prim since his death in the coal mines; she is the main provider for her family; and her ‘romantic attachment’ to Gale has developed through his respect for stubborn and resilient nature rather that her looks or dependence upon
“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
Giving up your life to die for another person is effortless, but dying for love together is easier than to face the fear of death alone. Katniss will not let her or Peeta’s self-sacrifice take place, since she will never really go home without Peeta (Collins 343). Peeta explains to Katniss; we both know that the Capital must have a winner and will not let both of us survive (Collins 343-345). Katniss thought if maybe if they would die together… This could possibly be a winning strategy for Peeta and Katniss by of tricking the audience and Capital through eatingthe poison berries (Collins 343-344). Before swallowing the fatal berries, Katniss and Peeta overcome the fear of death through defying the Capitol’s desire for one victor, instead they
District 12 is where Katniss and Peeta are from. District 12 is a coal-producing district that is extremely impoverished. Most people living in this district have to work really hard just to keep some food on the table. During the games this completely changes how they are treated. Only one tribute from district 12 has ever won the games. They are normally the least popular and get the bad trainers an...
effected. Katniss provides protection for her younger sister, Primrose Everdeen, and her mother, again carrying out the role of the father, or the alpha of the house. She satisfies this role to the degree of volunteering to compete in the annual hunger games in the place of her sister, who was initially chosen. Katniss felt it was her responsibility to protect her sister, as she was the main provider and protector of her family and the household. After volunteering to take Prim 's place, Katniss is taken away where she is isolated in a room and given only 3 minutes to speak with her family and close friend and huntind partner, Gale. When she is talking to her mother about caring for Primrose, she speaks with a firm voice, and very emphatically. The language and tone of her voice changes depending on the person who she is talking to. For example,
The Hunger Games is a yearly event, in which the audience find it extremely uncomfortable and unusual to watch but for the people of Panem it is completely normal and is something they must take part in whether they are ready for it or not. Imagine being forced into an arena where you must fight to death? Imagine being forcefully chosen for something you have been dreading your whole life! As you can probably guess the tributes picked from District 12 are Peeta Mellark as the male tribute and Katniss Everdeen as the woman tribute in a sudden turn of events.