Blog Post #4 - Significance.

WARNING : CONTAINS SPOILERS. 


Thinking Process: 

Two Significant Elements

     1. Katniss's childhood memories. 
         When Katniss was small, she grew up in a very poor district. Living off the land was something of a crucial daily routine in order for her to feed her family. When she was young, Peeta (the male fighter from the same District), had met her and had given her bread that he had burned. Bread was very, very rare for Katniss to acquire, he saved her life.
     " To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed. " (Collins, The Hunger Games 32)
      Because of this experience, Katniss feels more of a connection to Peeta within The Hunger Games. Her memories also tells us as the reader that she has met Peeta and has a deeper connection with him than initially realized.

     2. Memories of the Hunger Game.
           In Catching Fire, the second book in the series, Katniss and Peeta have to return to the Games, this time with other victors instead of new contestants. 
   "  I outsmarted his sadistic Hunger Games, made the Capitol look foolish, and consequently undermined his control. " (Collins, Catching Fire 18)
Because of the way Peeta and her acted when the attended The Hunger Games for the first time, they made a fool of the Game Makers by forcing them to make a choice between two winners or none, as both Peeta and Katniss were ready to eat Midnight berries, that were poisonous and lethal.  Since Katniss and Peeta had to return to the games, they already understand that it is not going to be an easy task. They also understand that the Game Makers are not on their side this time, but are hoping for Peeta and Katniss to fall weak to the other players. 

Blog Post # 3 - Define and Describe Character

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{ K A T N I S S   E V E R D E E N }

1 . Stubborn :

       Having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, esp. in spite of good arguments or reasons.
Two Antonyms - Yielding, Willing.
Two Synonyms - Pertinacious, Obstinate.
" Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand! " (Collins, Catching Fire, 114). When Gale was injured at the whipping, Katniss had followed him to her mother's kitchen where she was trying to heal his wounds. Katniss refused to leave his side and was even forced out of the kitchen by Peeta. Her stubbornness has to be her best personality trait, this trait is what makes Katniss Everdeen so special.


2 . Determined

     Having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.
Two Antonyms - Begin, Start.
Two Synonyms -  Decided, Resolved.

                      " I outsmarted his sadistic Hunger Games, made the Capitol look foolish, and consequently undermined his control."( Collins, Catching Fire, 18 ). When Katniss entered the Hunger Games for the first time, she was determined to make a fraud and fool out of the Capitol. And, by the end of the Hunger Games; when it came down to Peeta and Katniss being alive, she decided to toy with the Capitol. She knew fully that the Capitol had to have a winner, and if both of them died, there would be no victor. So, Katniss was determined to make the Capitol send bother Peeta and herself home as victors of the Hunger Games.

3 . Motivational; 

     The general desire or willingness of someone to do something.
Two Antonyms -Desire, action.
Two Synonyms - Depression, Discouragement.
No matter what situation Katniss was in or who she is with, she would always motivate the group with positive and (mostly) negative comments. " Look if you wanted to be babied, you should have asked Peeta. "( Collins, Catching Fire, 14 ) This quote is a good example of this because she is telling her followers that she wasn't going to give them an easy way out, that they would have to work and work hard in order to succeed. They would need courage and motivation to do so.


Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic, 2009. Print.