Katniss 'Changes In The Hunger Games' By Suzanne Collins

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How Katniss changes. “Change is the law of life. And those who only look to the past or present are certain to miss the future” (John F. Kennedy). I have recently read the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. So any how I am going to write an essay to explain to you little bit about how the main character “Katniss Everdeen” changes. The way she changes is in two different ways, which I will explain to you as we advance through this essay. You will find that she changes in trust worthiness and her temperamental issues. I am not just going to type the ways she has changed because then it would be a short and pointless essay. I will first explain how she was prior to the games then explain the way she changes for the good. This novel was interesting for a number of different reasons, which I will explain throughout this essay. Let’s talk about how Katniss was before the games as she is after the games. As we begin to read The Hunger Games it explains how Katniss get up and gets ready to go hunt. When she is out …show more content…
The only thing Katniss is thinking is “I hope prim does not get chosen” (Collins 21). Ironically though Prim does get chosen for the games which influences Katniss to volunteer as a tribute. The tribute chosen on the boy’s side is “Peeta Mellark”. The first thought on Katniss’s mind is “oh no not him” as she has a flashback of her first and only confrontation with Peeta (Collins 25). It was in the bakery where Peeta works where Peeta had thrown Katniss a piece of bread that he made. But has spent a majority of time in the hereafter completely ignoring Katniss, as if Peeta thinks Katniss is too good for him. Katniss doesn’t trust Peeta necessarily for that, but doesn’t trust him because she believes Peeta does not have that killer instinct. Later in the novel Peeta makes the decision to be trained separately, in which gives Katniss the feeling of

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