Catching fire Hunger Games blog post

Lucie Pascarosa                  705               10/14/12        HUGE SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!


        I am rereading the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire. In the beginning, Katniss is recalling her first hunger games and is trying to forget it. Unfortunately, she has to be made up and go on a tour around the districts that as she put it, "secretly hate her." If you have not read the hunger games series, then you won't know that she has to go up on a podium with Peeta, and make a speech about the honor of being the winner of the 74th hunger games, while the families of the other dead children look up at her and are forced to also be put in the spotlight. I think now, after reading it a second time, and reading The Girl Who Was On Fire it is easier to sympathize with Katniss. I think that Katniss plays a very strong female role, unlike Bella in Twilight. This is why I think Katniss is a strong female character in Catching Fire.

        I think Katniss is a strong female character because she endures two hunger games. In the first book, Katniss volunteers as a tribute to save her sister, watches a twelve year old die, and outsmarts the game makers by almost eating the berries. But even if they didn't tell her to stop, she would have sacrificed herself for an audience. Then she is taken away and eventually sent home, only to be interviewed about the thing she wants most to forget. Half a year later, she goes on the Victory tour, and that is when she really sparks the rebellion. She promises to send food and money to Rue from district eleven (rue is the twelve year old that died), and puts her three fingers to her lips which is the sign of her district and what she did when rue died. this was what sparked the rebellion. It started when she was there. she had to hide while three people were shot and killed. I couldn't live through that if my life depended on it (no pun intended). After another half a year, she finds out that she has to be in the games again for the quarter quell, and almost gets killed by killer monkeys, poison fog, and other obstacles the game makers thought up. If someone from our everyday life had to do that, well, they couldn't. They wouldn't have survived the first hour of the 74the hunger games! After, her own ally cuts open her arm an pulls out her tracker. Then all of a sudden, a helicopter comes out of nowhere and picks all of them up an out of the arena. But Peeta is left behind and tortured by the capitol. No one could live through the PSTD of that.

      This is why I think that Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay is a very strong character.