The Hunger Games (Chapter 1) is a novel excerpt by Suzanne Collins. Katniss wakes up and goes out hunting, in the woods she meets with gale. Gale and Katniss then go back home and get ready for the reaping, at the reaping she isn’t chosen but her little sister was. Suzanne Collins uses indirect characterization to give insight into her protagonist Katniss. The way the author characterizes Katniss Everdeen most effectively would be through the thoughts she has. The way the author characterizes Katniss gives her many ideas that she cant say out loud. Katniss reflects on her thoughts,” So i learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into a indifferent mask so that no one could ever know what i’m thinking,” (Collins 6). The quote tells a
