The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is one of the best books I have ever read. It has a lot of different elements like love, survival, hope etc. One of my favorite elements is love or romance between Gale, Peeta and Katniss. Katniss is a very interesting character. She doesn't know what she's feeling for anyone.
In the first few chapters the book talks about Katniss's life back in district twelve. Suzanne mentions her hunting partner Gale. Katniss met Gale when he saw Gale's brilliant snares. After that they became hunting partners. In the story Katniss has a very strong relationship with Gale. She isn't sure if Gale is her boyfriend or not. When she and Peeta were chosen for the tributes for district twelve. She remembered Peeta giving her bread, which brought her family back to live. Peeta saved her. Katniss thinks she owe Peeta.
When Katniss and Peeta rode the train to the Capitol. Peeta was very nice to Katniss. Katniss thought they were all lies. She thought Peeta is just faking to be nice to her to win the games. In there interview Peeta told Ceaser that he loved Katniss. Katniss was shocked but she thought it was just a way to win sponsors to help them. So she acted along and made the Capitol love them.
When the rules changed Katniss started to shout for Peeta and tried her best to find him. I think this action of her's made us feel like she has some feelings for Peeta but she is just trying to fake her feelings and doesn't want to admit them.
Also in the games Katniss found out Peeta really loved her but she didn't really know what she felt for him. After the game maker announced that there would be a rule change in which two tributes from the same district is allowed to win. This led to Kat...
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...lt real for one of the kisses. She only made the others up to get gifts from Haymitch.
At the end when the game makers changed the rules again. Katniss thought she must kill Peeta. In the end she didn't, she thinks she has feelings for him. She can't betray him by killing him. So Katniss found a way to use the poisonous berries to kill both of them, to suicide. This way she thought will make both of them live better. It will be easier to choose. Suddenly the game rules changed again. Katniss and Peeta are allowed to live.
I hope Peeta and Katniss can be friends and really have time to know each other better in the future. I think Katniss's love might just be real, it might come true. I also think that because of Katniss's experience with Peeta. Gale might be very jealous and will be angry with Katniss. That will make Peeta with the better advantage.
This article compares Katniss to Harry Potter and Bella Swan. It says the Hunger Games has a rougher plot than the Harry Potter series. The article asked “You can't help but think, if I were in that situation,...
Katniss then goes through an interview with the host Caesar Flickerman. Where with help from her stylist and escort, appears gorgeous and stunning. However, Katniss owes the success to a plan organised by her mentor and Peeta, Katniss’ ordinary person type companion. Peeta admits to Caesar that he loves Katniss, who is unaware the plot and stands surprised, to make the two seem more desirable. Katniss then pretends to be in love with Peeta to earn favours from the sponsors. As a result, the star-crossed lovers receive many sponsorships. Thus, this scene represents a part of the “Road of
When her and her ally and love interest Peeta reach the center of the Arena in which they are fighting for their lives, they not only run into their biggest rival – another boy named Cato who had been set up throughout as a villain – but also the murderous creations of the those who put them there. It is a gruesome fight that results in Cato’s horrifying death, and the survival of Peeta and Katniss, but only one of them can live. This ultimatum drives Katniss to take a calculated risk: if both of them die, the Capitol has no winner, and the games must always provide a glimmer of hope for effective control, thus if they threaten suicide, they can both get out alive. It works, and they are delivered from the belly of the
...rate to feel such strong feelings that she has never felt before. Maybe she is just looking for a little bit of comfort and somewhat of a scapegoat to get away from their horrid reality. These kinds of feelings could also be due to deindividuation, which means that when in a crowd a person behaves in a way that they would never behave if they were not in this crowd (Aronson et al., 2013, p. 247). Under the circumstances that Katniss has been forced into, she is doing things that she would not normally do, like kissing Peeta as she is watched by all 12 districts or almost committing suicide while still inside the arena. People tend to adapt to their surroundings and when others around them are doing crazy and unimaginable things, like killing to survive, then they follow suit.
Also Katniss, Peeta, and Gale. Katniss and Gale seem to really like and care for each other in the beginning. However, as Katniss gets to know Peeta and she truly finds out he had already liked her, from their past, she starts to like him as well. Toward the end when Katniss and Peeta are in the cave, Gale sees them in the game as Katniss starts getting feelings towards Peeta because it didn’t work out between Katniss and Gale. In the same way as when Romeo cries over Rosaline, thinking Rosaline liked him but Romeo ends up getting heartbroken.
The Hunger Games are one of the most emotional, viscous and cruel books I’ve read before. But both heroes Katniss and Peeta have survived to live the next day. They are both winners and Katniss lives to feed her family once more. It was a fantastic book of amazing features, characters, themes and creativity.
Katniss lost her social interaction with many of citizens by just staying at her own distance, not leaving her bubble of safety. Katniss really did not have a problem with personal space, but she did not like being around others. She preferred the wilderness where she could do what she wanted to do, without having to deal with others. In that ...
The Hunger Games was a good movie when it came out. This movie refers to a dystopia world in which there are 12 districts and a capitol who rules with an iron fist, in which the districts must provide a tribute to fight in an annual Hunger Game as a punishment for a past rebellion. Katniss Everdeen is a hunter from the 12th district, which Gale, her friend gives her tips on hunting. One day her sister, Primrose Everdeen, is chosen for the Hunger Games, and in order to save her, she volunteers instead to serve in the Games along with Peeta Mellark. During a TV interview, Peeta confesses her love for Katniss Everdeen, which causes the enragement of the latter; however, she later forgives him as he explains to her that it was only to gain sponsors. During the Hunger Games, she did not receive a lot of supplies except some medicine to cure a wound, but Districts 1 and 2 almost won the Game due to their training, and amount of supplies which Katniss destroys but cannot recover any of them. The Hunger Games was one of the best movies I ever watched because it has a little bit of everything and it captures the real-life survival game that we live on a daily basis.
...nt, Katniss decides not to play by the rules anymore and she splits a handful of poison berries with Peeta. She decides that she is not going to let the “Gods” manipulate the game anymore. Right before they eat the berries the leader’s voice comes overhead and tells them that they have both one. The reason he decides to do this is because the crowd would be incredibly disappointed if the “show” ended this way. This is Katniss’ true show of courage, to defy the leaders/Gods and make her own ending. It can be said that this was Katniss’ destiny or fate: that she was meant to win the Hunger Games.
Ever since her act of defiance in her first games, the leaders in The Capitol have been outraged with her. She made the conscious decision to disobey the rules. Her and Peeta would have rather killed themselves than be forced to kill one another like the game’s rules were set up, so the head game maker let them both live. The Capitol, and many people in the districts saw this act as defiance, which no one in Panem is allowed to do. But for Katniss, it was the most moral action in a world where morality is questionable. If she decides to play the game how she is supposed to, then she knows she has to die in the arena. At first, Katniss accepts this fate, as long as Peeta is the one to survive. She also knows that if she does not follow through with this plan, her family, friends, and everyone she cares about could potentially be murdered as a result of her actions. If she decides to play the game how it is supposed to go, Katniss can make The Capitol happy and end any potential threats that can lead to an uprising. She knows that his option is probably her best choice because she can protect the ones she loves. She would rather sacrifice herself for the lives of many other people than save herself. In this option, Katniss is choosing the most Utilitarian action to take. With her death, she thinks that peace will be the outcome, and
...ith her peers. It is only when they couple desperately needs supplies that Katniss realizes, “ (Collins 297). Through Katniss’ unreliability, the reader is able to make realizations about her as she makes them about herself.
Giving up your life to die for another person is effortless, but dying for love together is easier than to face the fear of death alone. Katniss will not let her or Peeta’s self-sacrifice take place, since she will never really go home without Peeta (Collins 343). Peeta explains to Katniss; we both know that the Capital must have a winner and will not let both of us survive (Collins 343-345). Katniss thought if maybe if they would die together… This could possibly be a winning strategy for Peeta and Katniss by of tricking the audience and Capital through eatingthe poison berries (Collins 343-344). Before swallowing the fatal berries, Katniss and Peeta overcome the fear of death through defying the Capitol’s desire for one victor, instead they
Katniss does many things others will not do in her situation. Whether it is helping her family or helping others. Katniss’ father died in a mining accident when she was eleven (5). Katniss’s mother did not handle it well. She stopped caring for her family. She became a zombie. Katniss had to start caring for her family (26, 27). One day Katniss figured it all out. Katniss thought, “The first dandelion of the year. A bell went off in my head. I thought of the hours spent in the woods with my father and I knew how we were going to survive” (32). This is when Katniss realizes her family would no longer starve. Katniss knew hunting in district 12 is illegal and the penalty could be death (5). Katniss risks her life. Katniss’s only concern is her family, no matter the danger.
Collins portrays Peeta, as having feminine characteristics by showing him to be as emotional, romantic and more passive than Katniss. In the novel, Peeta “blushes beet red and stammers out” his love for Katniss on national television. He confesses that he has a crush and he tells the interviewer that his crush “[is] here with [him].” (Katniss, 130) Whereas Katniss’ reaction to Peeta’s confession is to “slam [her] palms into his chest” (Katniss, 135). This illustrates Peeta’s emotional personality and compares it to Katniss’s cold personality. This disproves the idea that gender roles are exactly true, and men cannot have similar features to
...completely different lives.The over powerful Capitol is to blame for this cruel injustice. For the most part the people of Panem seem to have come to accept this fact and just do what they can to get by. Peeta and Katniss are different. They prove that people from district 12 aren’t worthless but have the ability to win the games. They show that their gender does not determine or constrain what they have the ability to do. Through out the book, Peeta and Katniss teach people a lesson by continuing to challenge the status quo of Panem.