Katniss Being Brave And Confident

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Being brave and confident in everything you do will bring you very far. This is a phrase Katniss Everdeen would relate to. In the novel The Hunger Games everyone just labeling district twelve and assumed they were going to lose and die. Katniss proved them wrong. Being brave and confident helped her accomplish her goal. This would be an important lesson to teach highschoolers that labeling others never ends well. Highschoolers that are being bullied need to be taught that acting and feeling brave and confident will help you achieve your goal of not being bullied. This would be an important topic Katniss would address to high schools

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