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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Character Development; Katniss Everdeen

Author's Note: this piece is written to improve my score in Character Development and figurative language. It's purpose is to inform you on why Katniss Everdeen of  The Hunger Games is a dynamic character.

As many people know, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire are bestselling  novels written by Suzanne Collins. I have finished the first and second books and I am on the third. I strongly believe that Katniss Everdeen, the main character, is a dynamic character because of many reasons.

First of all, she starts out as an illegal hunter back home in District 12. She did not want much but to keep her family safe and keep them from starving. Later on, she makes a leap of hope to try to save her sister from the dreadful Hunger Games. This early in the series she is already changing to save Prim. She also becomes extremely brave like a real soldier during the training and early stages of this "purposeful" death pit.

Later on, she wins the first Games all on relying on something from her old life; archery. She won because she wasn't afraid to kill an enemy when the time came. Along with Peeta, she had a few months of happiness back at home before she was tossed back into the arena again like a game piece with all other skilled enemies. When she was broke out and taken to the unknown District 13, she agreed to become the Mockingjay.This was her biggest change yet in where I am in the books currently. This was a huge change because she really agreed to lead all the survivors of the resistance to victory over the war against the Capitol. I think she has changed more in the second book than the first and she changed a lot in the first.

Katniss plays one of the biggest parts in the whole series and almost the whole country of Panem relies on her to lead them to victory. If you think about it, this is a planet sized problem for everyone and they blame victory or failure on one person. Overall, Katness is most definitely a dynamic character due to her change from little hometown girl to huge Panem-wide leader.

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