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Imagine being in a situation where you are walking down the street in the middle of the night, and an unstable person comes and points a gun at you and starts to physical hit and you just so happen to be carrying a gun with you. Would you just let the person continue with their harassment to you or would you defend yourself?
Self defense is the use of reasonable force to protect oneself or members of the family from bodily harm from the attack of an aggressor (Dictionary.law.com). Self defense should be taken seriously. In “The Most Dangerous Games,” Rainsford, the protagonist, was stranded on an island after falling off his yacht. He met another fellow hunter, Zaroff, the antagonist. Zaroff believed that hunting animals is boring, and instead hunting humans are more exciting and gives you a thrill. Zaroff offered Rainsford to hunt with him or to be hunted himself. And whoever kills each other first
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Katniss had no CHOICE. If Katniss did not do the game, then she will be killed by the government. This was how the government worked in her world. When Katniss shot the boy from District 1, she was protecting Rue and protecting herself at the same time. When Katniss cut the Tracker Jacker hive to make it fall on the others, resulting in one of the girls dying, She was protecting herself from the other districts killing her. Think about it, if you were in Katniss’s situation would you or would you not take the easy way out of escaping from the alliance of districts?
In “The Most Dangerous Games” and “The Hunger Games”, Katniss had no choice but to kill other people because of the government. In order for her to survive, she had to kill. Rainsford had no choice but to play the game Zaroff forced him to play if he wanted to get out of that stranded Island anytime soon. Killing is a tough subject and shouldn't always be done. Yet sometimes there is no choice and you gotta do whatever you can to
This part of the journey begins when Rue dies. Katniss tried to save her and failed. She shares her struggle when she shares, "Rue's death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence. “There's no way to take revenge on the Capitol. Is there?” (Collins 1364). This part of the journey continues when she finds Peeta inured. Katniss constantly risks her life to get resources to help bring Peeta back to health. Katniss is willing to go through all of this trouble because Peeta is her friend and she knows that his survival is crucial to her winning the games, and returning to her district. Protecting
Since her father’s death, Katniss has been providing for her family. Her hunting skills are so impressive that even Peeta points out her precision: “She hits every squirrel right in the eye” (89). As such an experienced hunter, Katniss is skilled with a bow and arrow, as well as a knife. We see this violence continue when she is on the train headed to the Capital. After Haymitch punches Peeta in the face, Katniss throws her knife at Haymitch’s hand: “I drive my knife into the table between his hand and the bottle, barely missing his fingers” (57). However, that act still was not enough for her; she then takes the knife and throws it across the room landing it in the wall. She knew that in order to get his attention she would have to make an impression. Katniss acts out in violence again when she is in the training room at the Capitol. During her private session after missing a couple shots with her bow and arrow, she takes a few difficult shots to try and impress the Gamemakers. However, she notices that most of them are more focused on a roasted pig than her. She becomes furious, knowing her life is at stake, and out of rage, she fires an arrow straight toward the Gamemakers that spears the apple in the pig’s mouth. The violent part of Katniss hates and does not comprehend the idea of owing people. After Katniss’s father had died, her family was starving and it seemed she had no other options. While sitting outside the bakery in the pouring rain, the young boy Peeta it seemed had purposely burnt the bread so that he could give it to Katniss. Even though in doing that it meant getting punished by his mother. Peeta had saved her life and she always feels like she owes him for this. Peeta is never able to understand this because he himself is not a killer. In Ender’s Game, Ender, even from a young age, has the innate killer instincts. In each of
...th this boy that the thought of not being with him was unthinkable. You...you'd rather die than not be with him. You understand?” Katniss is pressured by Haymitch to say she is deeply in love with Peeta in order to avoid them getting into trouble for switching the rules of the game. Katniss does not feel this way about Peeta but she proved to the audience she does, which is why she stays alive. The characters in both Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games display very similar types of pressure.
When Haymitch refuses to answer Katniss’ question she resorts to violence to gain an answer from him. Another example that follow Rousseau’s theory on human nature; due to the current conditions and her environment Katniss resorts to violence making her a “bad” person. Another example from the movie is when Katniss must prove her skills to a panel of judges; the judges ignore her and focus on the food that arrives. An angry Katniss shoots an arrow straight into the apple that was placed on to the pig’s mouth. So once again because of the fact that Katniss was feeling ignored from the judges she resorts to violence making her a “bad” person once again. Once the hunger games starts she becomes awful she is placed in situations and environments that make her kill others. Following Rousseau’s theory of human nature the once “good” Katniss we saw at the beginning of the movie is now a violent killing machine. When being chased by the boys and girls of different districts she must cut a tree branch down so that the tracker jackers attack them, due to her environment and fear of death she hurts others so that she may survive;
Games are supposed to be fun not murderous, right? Even though games are meant to entertain and excite all players, in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford, the protagonist, goes through life-or-death of situations as a game of hunting humans made by the antagonist, General Zaroff. Rainsford has to adapt to these situations as they happen for three days trying to stay alive using what he knows as a hunter. However, Rainsford isn’t hunting but the one being hunted by the insane man, Zaroff, with multiple tactics to kill Rainsford. Throughout “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford struggles with man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self-situations while using his background knowledge, sanity and adaptability.
The four criminal law elements of self-defense are nonaggressor, necessity, proportionality, and reasonable belief. Nonaggressor is when the defender did not in any way provoke or stray an attack. When it comes to self-defense it is only available when it comes to unprovoked attacks. If one provokes someone they cannot use self-defense to defend themselves from the attack because they provoked it. However there is one exception and that is the withdrawal exception. The withdrawal exception is when the initial aggressor withdrawals completely from the attack they provoked they can defend themselves against their initial victims. An example of nonaggressor self-defense is Melody hanging out at the bar by herself and Samantha comes up to her trying
death would only help the revolution because Katniss’s death will give everyone a martyr to
Katniss lives in a world where people live in twelve different districts. Each district preforms some task to help keep the capitol up and running, Katniss lives in district twelve where coal is mined to power the capitol city and other districts. Each district is poorer than the last with twelve being the last. This is another form of a lack of control in Katniss’s life. The capitol keeps a very strong grip on the districts so no one gets out of line and rebels. The biggest way they do this is by having a reaping once a year where one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen are chosen from each district to fight to the death in the hunger
Nevertheless fighting in the Hunger Games with Peeta means that she would’ve been a happy person more than a cold blooded killer including that in the last minute of the Hunger Games they changed their changed their minds (The Capitol) and decided that you wouldn’t be able to leave together so Katniss and Peeta were going to kill
It was essential to make Katniss a likable character as if she was not; the movie runs the risk of the audience finding “The Hunger Games” only as a grotesque culture that kills children. The framework needs to be set that Katniss is a character that a viewer wants to invest in and further watch her collide with the corrupt system throughout four films. While Katniss’ character flaw may be that she is hard to relate to, the choices in the film throughout the story allow an audience to find Katniss favorable and relatable. Through visuals and audio techniques, one can better experience the world as she does. Through Primrose, Rue, and Peeta, one is able to identify better with who Katniss is and see her growth throughout the movie. The plot allowed for Katniss’ morals to be tested and rise above being both a physical and a moral victim of the Hunger games. All these details allowed for Katniss to be a likable character where one hoped the odds were in her
It was by far one of the toughest things she had ever done in her life. Katniss was a hunter, meaning she could kill animals and find berries. Katniss had never killed anyone in her entire life. There were people in the games know as career tributes have trained for the hunger games since they were little. These were the people Katniss had to watch out for, they could easily snag her up and kill her. The Careers weren't the only thing she had to watch out for. The gamemakers tended to throw in many obstacles in the games to make it more interesting for the capital to watch. Two challenges that Katniss faced was when the woods began catching on fire and when the capital created hounds that eat human
“Their best defense against injury is to put no defense and give them what they want” (Kates). Critics may argue that concealed handguns are not an effective form of self defense. To the contrary, robbery and assault victims who used a gun were less likely to be attacked or suffer injury, “Neither a martial art skills nor chemical sprays provide a real option for victims faced by attackers who are stronger or armed” (Kates). People feel safer when they carry a concealed weapon because they feel that criminals will avoid attacking them. Citizens want to conceal carry a handgun because every day there are dangerous individuals who prey on the weak. In addition to that, concealed handguns are an effective non-lethal form of self defense a majority of the time. Gary Kleck from the Federal Bureau of Investigation “estimated that, 2 million to 2.5 million victims annually use handguns to repel criminal attackers” (Kates). The surprise of being armed is the advantage for the victim, which the victim has the disadvantage of knowing the time and place of being attacked. Concealed carry actually provides protection to citizens that do not carry because the criminals are not sure who is able to defend themsel...
In the book The Hunger Games, The main character Katniss, who was from the poor district of district 12, is forced to go into an arena and battle 2 tributes from each of the districts to the death. Throughout the book she constantly has to overcome obstacles. She grew up in a single parent household with her mom and her sister. She is the one who has to put food on the table for the family, so there is a lot of pressure on her even when she was at home. However, Katniss is a born fighter and will do anything in order to keep herself and her family alive.
In Suzanne Collins novel “The Hunger Games” Katniss struggles as she faces obstacles that could change their life forever in a dystopian society. In the novel Katniss takes on the role of an unforgiving, independent mother figure to her innocent and vulnerable sister Prim when their mother gave up on them after her husband death. She spends countless hours each day relentlessly searching for food to feed her family. When doing so she proves her determination to keep her family close, healthy and alive. An intriguing trait of Katniss is her rebellious attitude; she has caution for the rules but knows how far to bend them in order to stay safe and to survive. Suzanne Collins uses Katniss Everdeen to embody the underdog protagonist that is loved by all who reads the story.
Katniss is very courageous, she volunteered for her for her little sister and tried to help and protect her allies in the games. She worked hard in training and to not make herself a target before the games and even trying to get people to like her. Her goal of having the people like her is she gets sponsors for the games to help her out. She is very self disciplined. As an archer she practiced a lot at her home district her hunting skills even helped her personal gain in the games. If she was not a good archer her family would probably have starved. She is just a very selfless, and courageous person and that is why she is known as the Capitals