Imagine if you had brain injuries for the rest of your life, and you could barley hear what people said to you all the time. This is how Katniss is going to feel for the rest of her life. However, Katniss is going to try and fight these serious effects by using the friendships she has with fellow survivors. In the book “The Hunger Games Mocking Jay” Katniss has many friends but she thinks they’re trying to kill her. Since, Katniss is on the verge of death she finally gives them a chance to show their worth.…
In knowledge and individual power are able to be use in different type of ways it can be seen in leadership. It show how power can make knowledge turn leadership into a better companion. When knowledge and individual power are together, it is able to help out the leadership become stronger. Having power can be a strong thing for someone to have and ability to control the world, but it can be dangerous at the same time. Having knowledge brings balance to power when it is in need of a hand to control things.…
Katniss in the book and film series is a resilient character showing the bad things that have happened to her, but she still picks herself up and fights for what she believes in. Which is a powerful message for fans of the books and the films showing even the weakest can become the strongest. She was never meant to be a hero but became one as soon as she volunteered for her younger sister to save her from the horrors of the Hunger Games. She became a symbol of leadership and courage for fans of the…
In the book “The Hunger Games,” the main character Katniss chose to take the role of her sister when fighting for her family and friends. But, in the capitol they had to fight against their district. Katniss was determined to get her way out of the capitol and save her friends and family. “...All twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the…
Katniss Everdeen. The girl from District 12 that took on the Capitol, the girl who saved Peeta, the girl who risked it all for love. Which is she? Or is it that she is all three of these things. Throughout the course of this essay I will explore which person she really is even though she might not know herself.…
Katniss fights to change the parameters of her society, and The Hunger Games, by constantly defying the rules and boundaries set by The Capitol.…
The Hunger Games are supposed to serve as a reminder of the revolution and ensure peace. However, in reality the Hunger Games is a violent bloodbath designed to promote fear. The protagonist, Katniss, volunteers as tribute for the twelfth district to protect her sister. As she progresses through the game she provides hope because she challenges the traditional roles of the tributes when she outperforms the wealthier districts and helps another tribute. President Snow sees Katniss as a threat on the Tyrannical system and believes it could lead to another revolt.…
When people decide to choose a leader to follow, they look for someone who is emotionally stable and whose leadership skills will not be affected by their personal events. Rather than someone who will breakdown after every loss, a leader must be able to endure the pain and fight through it. Katniss Everdeen has endured immense loss and tragedy in the course of her life, Despite this, she soldiers on stoically. At the very beginning of Collins’ series, Katniss had recently lost her father in a mining accident due to poor working conditions. It is shown later on, during her hallucinations due to tracker jacker venom from multiple stings, that she had suffered a great loss when her father passed as she hallucinates his accident.…
Katniss was born an unusual birth in district 12 of Panem, she was born in one of the most unfavored districts of the 13. Therefore, unlike the other districts, 12 was mostly made up of poor and slums. Even though she had a different call to a particular adventure, Katniss was specialised in a bow, she also hunted for her family and traded so they wouldn't go hungry. She was crossing a big threshold, when she of boarded the bullet train to Panem, she became a different, more brave person in fact. Katniss didn’t know it then, but she was just to experience life changing events in the past few…
‘The Hunger Games’, written by Suzanne Collins, is set in a dystopian future where teenagers are picked from a bowl full of names to fight for survival in the annual ‘Hunger Games’. Katniss Everdeen, the main protagonist, is a strong, brave, and fierce character. She shows us, in many ways, that family is important and they are worth sacrifice. “I volunteer! I volunteer!…
The capital feels humiliated by Katniss’ rebelliousness on live television. Katniss says, “… The Hunger Games are their [the capital’s] weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it” (Collins 358). But Katniss did and she is now the hope and the face of rebellion for the districts. Athletic, clever, compassionate, modest, and rebellious are all words that explain what makes Katniss Panem’s heroine. The all around qualities is what makes her such a unique and powerful character.…
Inspiration and Power In the Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdean is a prototypical example of a leader. She displayed several leadership qualities and emerged as a great leader in the face of difficult times. Katniss’s circumstances led her to step into a leadership role after volunteering as tribute in place of her sister. Her main focus was to survive and uphold her values while doing…
Katniss Everdeen, the iconic protagonist of The Hunger Games, is a 16 year old girl who lives with her 12 year old sister Primrose and her mother in dirty and poor District Twelve. Since her loving father died in a mining explosion when she was just 12, and her mother became depressed and distant, Katniss was forced to fill her father’s shoes and feed and support her family in this cruel country. Despite the rules and the risks, Katniss hunts by bow and arrow in the forest of District Twelve to keep herself and her family alive. When her sister is reaped for the Hunger Games, Katniss sacrifices herself to take her place. Katniss isn’t a terribly sentimental character which sets her apart from other girl heroines in literature today.…
Most people in the districts know that if a young girl, like Katniss, was to volunteer and go into the Hunger Games that she would most likely die and not be able to stand her ground. Throughout the whole movie and games, Katniss struggles to prove that she is strong and worthy of this. For example, at one part of the movie, she perfectly aims her arrow right next to all the government officials who refused to pay any attention to her skills. This can be related to the modern day struggle that women still have in this country when competing for army or navy seal positions. Men and even some woman, every day, say how men are physically stronger which means they are much more capable.…
To this day, his legacy has motivated many to do the same. In the fictional movie, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen shows that she is a born leader through her hard working actions. She says, “Some walks you have to take alone.” As she also has to make many sacrifices during the movies, such as volunteering herself in place of her sister to represent her district in the Hunger Games. She never gives up and is extremely brave.…