Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games goes on a journey that is quite comparable to a Hero's Journey. It starts with her sister Prim being selected to "play" in the games and Katniss volunteers to take her place. She then goes into training and preparation for the games. She also gets a mentor that is a previous winner of The Hunger Games from District 12, Haymitch. Many of the characters in The Hunger Games match the archetypes of the Hero's Journey very similarly. Every character has a specific role in Katniss' journey throughout The Hunger Games.
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
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district, her small-knit family, and her friendship with a boy named Gale. The first step in the Hero's Journey is "The Ordinary World", in which the hero's normal life is examined before they go on their actual journey. On the day of the infamous reaping, in which two tributes (a girl and a boy) are chosen from each district to participate in The Hunger Games, Primrose Everdeen's (Katniss' sister) name is drawn. Katniss was not called to be a tribute. That being said, she did not want her sister to die, so she rose to the occasion and volunteered herself as tribute. This is a step in the Hero's Journey called "call to adventure", in which the hero is faced with something that makes them go on an adventure. Prim's name being drawn caused her to volunteer to be a part of the Hunger Games. Once Katniss gets on the train to the Capitol, she meets a previous Hunger Games victor by the name of Haymitch. Haymitch serves as her mentor for the Hunger Games. This is the step called "meeting with the mentor". In this case, Katniss literally meets with her mentor who is going to prepare her for the upcoming Hunger Games. Before the games actually commenced, there were training days set up to prepare the tributes. This step is known as "crossing the first threshold". This is where the hero abandons their ordinary life and crosses the "threshold" into adventure. During the beginning of the movie there were a number of stages in the hero's journey that played out. However, there were also many archetypes that came to light as well. During the beginning of the movie The Hunger Games there were a number of character archetypes that presented themselves. At the start of the movie Katniss is portrayed as the main character. The woman who drew Prim's name from the bowl is known as Effie Trinket. On the train ride to the Capitol, she is introduced to the man who will be mentoring her for the upcoming games. This man is a previous Hunger Games victor known as Haymitch. Haymitch fulfills the "mentor" archetype quite literally. He is tasked with training Katniss so that she is prepared when the Hunger Games commence. The tribute that is sent along with Katniss to compete in the Hunger games is a boy named Peeta. Haymitch forces Katniss to become allies with Peeta so that they can get support from donors. Throughout the Hunger Games, both of them help each other along the way. Before the games actually commenced, there were training days set up to prepare the tributes. Effie Trinkett fulfills the role as the herald because, if she had not drawn Prim's name, Katniss would not have volunteered to be a part of the Hunger Games. There were many archetypes that presented themselves during the beginning of the movie, yet there were still some that were introduced later on. As Katniss is mentally and physically preparing herself for her first hunger games she comes to realize she may have more Allies than what she had anticipated.
While Katniss is in the training center searching for her signature weapon to prove to the capitol that she can overcome this obstacle, she finds out just how challenging it will be to win the capitol and president snow over. Katniss' Approach was to prepare herself for all of the hardships she will have to face. She will be able to find her strength from her mentor, family, and the other person chosen for district twelve- Peeta. After Katniss and Peeta are able to meet and chat with their mentor, Haymitch they set out on their journey on the hunger games. Katniss and Peeta are separated just like every other district. All of the victors whom are full of distress, wait anxiously for the countdown to enter the arena. While waiting Katniss is scanning the scene looking around at who could possibly be her Allies. Once the clock hits zero Katniss races to find supplies. After a restless run in the woods and several confrontations Katniss is exhausted and tries to find a safe spot to take a break. Katniss dozed off and when she wakes she finds that she is covered camouflaged with leaves. She also noticed a bow and arrow laid next to her which luckily for her was her signature weapon. She then nervously looks around trying to put two and two together. Who would be so kind to bring her some materials and cover up to ensure her safety? She heard some rustling noises around a tree and carefully walks over there to find the Trickster, Rue from district 11. Katniss cautiously approaches Rue confirming that she would not be harmed. Katniss and Rue began to form a friendship. Rue looked up to Katniss and Katniss looked to Rue as a little sister. They both have an equal amount of admiration for each other. Shortly after Rue's death, it is announced that two victors may be crowned if both originate from the same district.
Franticly Katniss sets off to find Peeta. She finally finds him camouflaged with paint and grass, injured. Katniss quickly goes into action to care for Peeta and to protect him. They set out to look for a safe spot for the night. Another announcement was made during the games saying that they have something everyone is in need of. In this case Peeta needed medicine in order for him to be healed. Katniss determined as ever, sets out for what may seem like her last Ordeal, eager to help Peeta. In hindsight Katniss realizes that there was no way to actually prepare herself for this Ordeal. As Katniss comes to the end of the Hunger Games she meets several archetypes, and finishes her hero's journey. First Katniss faces The Resurrection, where she must defeat her final Threshold Guardian Cato, who is the last hurdle in the way of her winning the Hunger Games. On top of the cornucopia Peeta and Katniss fight for their lives, at times struggling with hand to hand combat as the mutant muts wait below. Peeta and Cato struggle to knock each other off the cornucopia, Katniss has an opportunity to shoot Cato but he would take Peeta down with him. Eventually Peeta gets the upper hand, knocking him off of the cornucopia, where he is then torn apart by the mutant muts. The mutants, who look almost like the dead Hunger Games competitors, desperately try and claw their way onto the cornucopia. Katniss fights them off with her bow and arrow, soon the muts disappear into the woods, leaving Peeta and Katniss as the final survivors (2:05:19-2:07:58). Out of the deaths of the other Hunger Games participates, comes new life for Peeta and Katniss. After finally winning the Hunger Games, and being paraded in front of Panem as the star crossed lovers, Peeta and Katniss return home on the train. While on the train home Katniss enters the road back portion of her Hero's Journey. She is advised by her Shapeshifter Haymitch, who over the course of the movie has changed from an alcoholic mess to a cunning advisor, to keep up her façade of a relationship with Peeta (2:13:43-2:14:02). By keeping up the fake relationship she pleasing the capital, giving her life meaning, so her life is safe. On her Road Home Katniss realizes that life will never be the same, she is now in the public eye, she's being watched by the capital, and she is forever changed by her experiences in the games (2:14:05-2:14:34). Katniss Returns With The Elixir when she returns home to District 12, she is now a hero to her people, as she defied the capital, and jointly won the Hunger Games. When she arrives home at the train station she is greeted by reporters trying to snap pictures of the star crossed lovers, her life is completely different now. Katniss then gets her Reward, as she now has a home in the Victors Village, a safe place for her family to live. She also gets a life long allowance, she can now afford to feed her family, no longer will she have to venture out into the forest to hunt for animals. But with her Reward comes a lurking Shadow, President Snow is on her case as he realizes the eminence influence she has on her people. She is now seen has a beacon of hope, and he must manage that hope so it doesn't spark a revolution. All in all, THE HUNGER GAMES was a fantastic movie. It was action packed, and full of suspense. THE HUNGER GAMES also had a hint of romance and drama. The journey that Katniss Everdeen really matched that of a Hero's Journey. The characters in the movie almost perfectly fit in with the specific archetypes set by the Hero's Journey. THE HUNGER GAMES was a good movie and truly matched up with the Hero's Journey, perfect for anyone looking for a simple yet intriguing story about a hero in a dystopian society.
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
Joseph Campbell made himself one of the chief authorities on how mythology works when he published his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book, Campbell describes what he believes to be the monomyth, known as “The Hero’s Journey.” Campbell wrote that this monomyth, the basic structure of all heroic myth, has three basic stages, which in turn have subcategories themselves. The heroic story of Katniss Everdeen, told in the movie Hunger Games, follows Campbell’s monomyth outline quite well.
The Hunger Games was a good movie when it came out. This movie refers to a dystopia world in which there are 12 districts and a capitol who rules with an iron fist, in which the districts must provide a tribute to fight in an annual Hunger Game as a punishment for a past rebellion. Katniss Everdeen is a hunter from the 12th district, which Gale, her friend gives her tips on hunting. One day her sister, Primrose Everdeen, is chosen for the Hunger Games, and in order to save her, she volunteers instead to serve in the Games along with Peeta Mellark. During a TV interview, Peeta confesses her love for Katniss Everdeen, which causes the enragement of the latter; however, she later forgives him as he explains to her that it was only to gain sponsors. During the Hunger Games, she did not receive a lot of supplies except some medicine to cure a wound, but Districts 1 and 2 almost won the Game due to their training, and amount of supplies which Katniss destroys but cannot recover any of them. The Hunger Games was one of the best movies I ever watched because it has a little bit of everything and it captures the real-life survival game that we live on a daily basis.
When her and her ally and love interest Peeta reach the center of the Arena in which they are fighting for their lives, they not only run into their biggest rival – another boy named Cato who had been set up throughout as a villain – but also the murderous creations of the those who put them there. It is a gruesome fight that results in Cato’s horrifying death, and the survival of Peeta and Katniss, but only one of them can live. This ultimatum drives Katniss to take a calculated risk: if both of them die, the Capitol has no winner, and the games must always provide a glimmer of hope for effective control, thus if they threaten suicide, they can both get out alive. It works, and they are delivered from the belly of the
The storyline of the Hero’s Journey has appeared in many different ways throughout literature for centuries. The Hero’s Journey is a famous plot line that exceedingly all literature follows. It is the series of steps that a hero usually follows in his/her adventure where the main purpose of the hero is to defeat his/her greatest fear and return with an accolade. In this epic journey, there are twelve steps and nearly all literature includes most of them. The Odyssey by Homer and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are both based on The Hero’s Journey. Conversely, they interpret this journey in their very own different ways. Odysseus from The Odyssey and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games face many problems ranging anywhere from love to horrifying monsters. However, they handle these problems
Their lifestyle sets the story and is where we learn crucial details about the hero, their capabilities, true nature and outlook on life. The journey begins in ends in the this world. Hercules lives a normal childhood with his mother and father in a small town, were he is known as the town freak and is use to being shunned for superhuman strength, that causes the town a lot of chaos. Hercules always knew that he never belonged where he was, and was destined to find out. Katniss Everdeen is the main character and is from district twelve, one of the poorest districts in Panem. Katniss lives with just her mother and sister after her father was blown up and she is left to take care of her family by herself, who are constantly on the edge of starvation. The hero’s both live in the Ordinary World where they don 't fit in and want nothing more than to live in a different world or have a different
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...
In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins a new country is created. Panem is born in place of North America, were the Hunger Games began. In the Hunger Games, there are 24 tributes. Tributes are people who live in the districts. The tributes in the Hunger Games are all the same. They kill one another and become the Capitols puppets. The tributes become violent, emotionless puppets. Then there is Katniss. Katniss is an excellent hunter and becomes lethal during the games. However, she has not lost her compassion. Katniss does not think of herself as a good person. When in reality she is a good person with a large heart, who puts others before herself.
Underestimated by her competitors, she was able to rise her way to the top by pulling out he secret weapons. Her hunting abilities, problem solving skills, and ability to think on the spot may not seem like super powers; however, they helped her survive and win the hunger games. Like Tris, Katniss also had a supernatural aid. Peeta was able to help Katniss make it through the games and they both made it out alive. Two to protagonists , Tris and Katniss, are alike in many ways and they both have the self-respecting, strong, smart, and independent qualities that one would expect to find in a
I unwilllingly walked through the entrance of regret and guilt. With teary eyes from what happened the night before, I didn’t know what I could say. All I thought was ‘It was an accident’ but that didn’t matter anymore.
Many themes throughout the novel the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins can be associated with Katniss's father in the novel: however, only the theme of survival truly represents what her father is in the story and drives this theme forward. This man had taught Katniss essentially everything she knows involving survival by analyzing his problems, figuring out how to solve them, and then acting on those ideas. His cleverness, craftiness, and death all shaped Katniss's life from her learning by example from him. Now, her challenge is to survive using everything that her father had taught her now in the games and in everyday life; advancing this theme.
When they get on the train to go to the capitol for the games they meet another main character and Peeta and Katniss’s mentor Haymitch who is a drunk and doesn’t seem to have much advice other than “Stay alive.” When they get to the capitol you meet Cinna who is Katniss’s stylist who has dresses Katniss in a body length unitard that is lit on fire since the outfit is fireproof along with Peeta’s outfit for the opening ceremony where she makes a memorizing appearance in her outfit and she soon gets the nickname that Cinna and the people call her “the girl on
Traits Katniss Everdeen is very determined. If she wants to do something, she tries until she achieves it. This is proved when Katniss wins the Hunger Games after she is told that she should try to win, by Prim, her sister and throughout the games she remembers these words and kind of uses them as her guide. She is also very strong in both mental and physical ways. Her worst character trait is that she lets kind people root into her, so if someone pretends to be kind she will let them root in which means she lets them know about her and becomes easygoing with them.
The Hunger Games is an astonishing reading experience that propels the reader to feel the emotions expressed by the characters throughout the novel. These emotions were expertly developed by Suzanne Collins to create an atmosphere of compassion and understanding. Katniss Everdeen was affected by turning points which caused great adversity, demonstrated her resilience and also discipline as a human being. While others would’ve backed down and gave up, Katniss persevered to accomplish her goals no matter the situation. Volunteering as tribute, losing her sister-like friend Rue and threatening her own life for the benefit of all the districts are all examples of turning points. In life we are all faced with points where everything changes, these