The Hunger Games: An Analysis Of Katniss Everdeen's Decisions

Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old woman from District Twelve, faces life threatening challenges in order to stay alive, her decisions could cause her own demise, leave her family with everlasting disbelief, sorrow, and misery. If Katniss does not make wise decisions, her beloved sister, Primrose, could grow up motherless. In contrast, if she makes sensible decisions, she could return home to live in wealth and never see her family starve. The Hunger Games is a mean of entertainment for the citizens in Panem and Districts one through twelve. Each District randomly chooses one young male and female to go fight in an arena only to be the last one standing and fight for survival. Katniss’s main focus is staying alive and for her to do this,

Katniss’ hardest challenge is to keep alive. While this might sound like a feeble task, it is rather laborious, and to achieve this, Katniss must make knowledgeable choices. She is entitled to resources around the arena, in which the tributes compete in. She uses the resources to her advantage and shoots squirrels, rabbits, and birds to cure her hunger and purified river water and lake water to soothe her thirst. Her survival also relies on the alliances she makes in the arena. One of the alliances she makes is named Rue. She is a twelve year old female from District Eleven, she is small and simply underestimated by other tributes. Rue and Katniss first meet when Katniss Had woken up from a nap in a tree, she laid her eyes upon Rue prompting her to look up. Above Katniss was a nest of deadly wasps called Tracker Jackers. A Tracker Jacker can kill a person with just one bite. A group of tributes, who threatened to kill Katniss the night before, were sleeping below the nest. Rue told Katniss to cut the nest so it would land on the group below. Katniss proceeded and killed two of the sleeping tributes. Ever since, Rue and Katniss had trusted and relied on each other. They made a perfect team, Rue had knowledge on what plants and what berries were edible, and Katniss could hunt game. Also, in order to survive, Katniss has to rely on sponsors. They are individuals in

Before tributes leave for the games, they get a few more minutes with their family. When it was Katniss’ turn to have time with her beloved sister and mother, there was crying but also promises. With a doleful sense, her sister's last words were “please try to win.” and Katniss had retained those words since her last day in the arena. In my personal opinion, these words drove Katniss with integrity, and the desire to come home being the victor of the annual games. Before the games had ever started, at the reaping, which is a ceremony which chooses the tributes who compete in the Hunger Games, Katniss heroically volunteered when she had heard her sister's name called. This piece of evidence conveys how much respect, and endearment she has for Prim. While Katniss is in the games, she repeatedly think about the well being of Prim. If she will starve, if she is receiving enough milk from her goat and if her friend Gale is feeding her with game from the woods. Katniss stays resilient and overcomes all of the hardships and eventually receives what she deserves, to come home to her