The Hunger Games: Catching Fire:
Analyzing the Gender Role Surrounding Katniss Everdeen
In most fictional writing, whether it be a novel or a film or any form of writing, a typical archetypal hero usually will abandon or be forced to leave his/her friends, family or simply loved ones because of some kind of tragic/significant event or occurrence. This will almost always lead him/her on a journey of sorts where he/she has the potential to deal with many tasks along the way, all the while searching for something or someone to fix the situation. There are many characters in the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, all of which portray different archetypes. The archetypal hero of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is quite obvious, really. For …show more content…
Although she doesn’t “abandon” her family per-say, she is actually taken from them which, incidentally, is the tragic event of which she experiences. She is forced back into the Hunger Games’ 75th annual event: “The Hunger Games”. She must re-enter the gruelling arena once more with the previous year’s male tribute and her arena-met friend, Peeta. Katniss, Peeta, and many others within the games tirelessly work together throughout the film to fend off the villainous tributes and escape the arena to begin their fight against President Snow, the man in charge of it all. The film ends with Octavia, one of the tributes aiding in the rebellion, as well as Peeta’s capture. Finnick, another helping tribute, Plutarch, the man who was in charge of the Hunger Games but rebelled for the greater good, and Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta’s trainer/mentor and Katniss escape in a spaceship of sorts after Katniss destroys the arena roof with a well-timed arrow, some wire and a lightning strike. The journey in which Katniss travels is evidently not yet over as two of their people are captured and they must still rebel well enough to win their battle …show more content…
It’s cool to see how they interacted from start to finish. At first, Katniss borderline, if not fully, hated Octavia. Octavia acted fairly rude to Katniss and just rude in general about everything. I also think that Katniss’ character was actually a little intimidated by her, considering how direct and aggressive Octavia came across as well as the fact that in order to be in the 75th Hunger Games, she had to have won before. But once Katniss realized that Octavia was really just as ticked off as Katniss was about being forced to return, they began to blossom into a not-so-typical friendship, even knowing how dangerous she was. They helped each other in the arena, well, the help was more directed towards Katniss since the plan for all the aiding tributes was to get Katniss out alive to lead the rebellion. Plus, Katniss probably didn’t like that Peeta liked seeing Octavia nude. Octavia and Katniss were really the only two tributes with any good combat skill, so they were obviously intimidated by each other a little bit, Katniss slightly more, but they ended up working it out well enough to work together. Katniss became confused when Octavia pretended to hunt for her and tore some blood out of Katniss to make it look as if she died, but being confused about that is understandable since Katniss didn’t know what Octavia was trying to do. What she was trying to do was make sure Katniss survived to escape
Analyzing the Gender Role Surrounding Katniss Everdeen
In most fictional writing, whether it be a novel or a film or any form of writing, a typical archetypal hero usually will abandon or be forced to leave his/her friends, family or simply loved ones because of some kind of tragic/significant event or occurrence. This will almost always lead him/her on a journey of sorts where he/she has the potential to deal with many tasks along the way, all the while searching for something or someone to fix the situation. There are many characters in the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, all of which portray different archetypes. The archetypal hero of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is quite obvious, really. For …show more content…
Although she doesn’t “abandon” her family per-say, she is actually taken from them which, incidentally, is the tragic event of which she experiences. She is forced back into the Hunger Games’ 75th annual event: “The Hunger Games”. She must re-enter the gruelling arena once more with the previous year’s male tribute and her arena-met friend, Peeta. Katniss, Peeta, and many others within the games tirelessly work together throughout the film to fend off the villainous tributes and escape the arena to begin their fight against President Snow, the man in charge of it all. The film ends with Octavia, one of the tributes aiding in the rebellion, as well as Peeta’s capture. Finnick, another helping tribute, Plutarch, the man who was in charge of the Hunger Games but rebelled for the greater good, and Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta’s trainer/mentor and Katniss escape in a spaceship of sorts after Katniss destroys the arena roof with a well-timed arrow, some wire and a lightning strike. The journey in which Katniss travels is evidently not yet over as two of their people are captured and they must still rebel well enough to win their battle …show more content…
It’s cool to see how they interacted from start to finish. At first, Katniss borderline, if not fully, hated Octavia. Octavia acted fairly rude to Katniss and just rude in general about everything. I also think that Katniss’ character was actually a little intimidated by her, considering how direct and aggressive Octavia came across as well as the fact that in order to be in the 75th Hunger Games, she had to have won before. But once Katniss realized that Octavia was really just as ticked off as Katniss was about being forced to return, they began to blossom into a not-so-typical friendship, even knowing how dangerous she was. They helped each other in the arena, well, the help was more directed towards Katniss since the plan for all the aiding tributes was to get Katniss out alive to lead the rebellion. Plus, Katniss probably didn’t like that Peeta liked seeing Octavia nude. Octavia and Katniss were really the only two tributes with any good combat skill, so they were obviously intimidated by each other a little bit, Katniss slightly more, but they ended up working it out well enough to work together. Katniss became confused when Octavia pretended to hunt for her and tore some blood out of Katniss to make it look as if she died, but being confused about that is understandable since Katniss didn’t know what Octavia was trying to do. What she was trying to do was make sure Katniss survived to escape