Another Reason The Hunger Games Is Awesome: Katniss Is Taller Than Peeta
I felt that with everything they went through it just left them raw. Can you imagine having gone through that kind of ordeal, it would leave someone unsure of everything and everyone. So i’ll understand if they’re not as sure as when they first started. The love was definately different, changed by the awfull circumstances they endured. I think they developed the kind of comfortable slow growing love over time but lacking some of the original passion.
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In District 12, one of the few freedoms people have is the decision of when and whom to marry, or if to marry at all. Before the Games, Katniss had never wanted to get married — to Gale, Peeta, or anyone. But now she will have to marry Peeta and will have to watch her children compete and possibly die in the Hunger Games.
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Before calling me “immature” you might want to make sure that you’re reading in a mature way. The intention of this hub was not to expose or examine Mrs. Everdeen’s character, but Katniss’s relationship with her. I could write a future, exploratory, hub that features Mrs. Everdeen and her experience in District 12 and the Capitol throughout Mockingjay, but that would take an entirely separate article. Cinna is, in essence, Katniss’s best friend in the Capitol. He is one of the people who hold her together when it’s obvious that everything else could easily fall apart.
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The birds have been repeatedly mentioned throughout the novel but have thus far remained mostly in the background. But the mockingjay motif becomes more significant as Katniss allies with Rue. The bird, as Katniss explains earlier, is a subtle symbol of rebellion since it represents a failure by the Capitol. But after Rue explains how she and the other workers in District 11 use the mockingjays to communicate, the mockingjay takes on an additional role. Katniss and Rue decide to use the birds as a way to communicate with one another. That role lasts only briefly as Rue is killed, but Katniss hears the mockingjays still singing Rue’s song, and the birds essentially become a reminder of Rue as well.
She knew Snow would die regardless, but she knew she was the only one who would have the opportunity to kill Coin, so she proactively decided to do just that. I believe that there are two true proactive actions taken by Katniss. One is assassinating the President Coin, the other is choosing to love Peeta at the resolution of the three novels. When the old man from the crowd whistles, he illustrates what the mockingjay tune means to the people of District 11, and possibly across Panem. The mockingjay, Katniss and Rue’s friendship, and the whistling are all related to one another.
Some people argue that Katniss is two-dimensional. You’ll have the opportunity to give your point of view. As for me, I believe that Katniss is one of the most dynamic females in young adult fiction (among those novels I’ve read), and I hope that through these pages, I can convince you of the same. While Katniss maintains that her displays of affection toward Peeta are for show, she notices that his gestures toward her seem so natural.
Rue teaches Katniss her song for the mockingjays. There are mockingjays all over the arena, and she says if Katniss hears the song she’ll know Rue is okay. Overall an average score because of the level of the reading and minimal literary skill needed to write these books. BORROW FROM LIBRARY instead of purchasing because not good enough to read 5 times like so many other series. I’m so confused, I’ve been reading a lot of people’s discussions about Katniss not loving Peeta. How she only settled for him and that it was just platonic love and some just saying they did not belong together.
Katniss realizes that Peeta’s feelings are genuine and that he has loved her for many years. At this point, Katniss isn’t sure of her own feelings. After all, she and Peeta are now a couple in the eyes of their government and face the looming threat of President Snow, who is furious with their act of defiance. Additionally, in sharing a life-changing traumatic experience, Katniss does feel uniquely bonded to Peeta in ways she never has before.
This was a key turning point for Katniss because, without it, she may not have become the adolescent she is throughout the novels. Her love for Prim is obvious both in the novels and in the films. Peeta wants to hear C-Date a story, so she tells him a fake story about how Katniss got Prim’s goat, Lady. The true story is that she got the money for the goat when she and Gale killed a buck in the woods and sold it to the butcher, Rooba.
Katniss goes on to marry Peeta and has children with him — and it totally makes sense. Katniss describes Gale as being too similar to her in intensity and that was something she didn’t want moving forward after the events of the Hunger Games and the Second Rebellion. Katniss is no longer the Katniss that Gale fell in love with — and vice versa. They grew apart, as people tend to when they grow up, learn more about themselves, and develop different priorities. The train arrives at District 11, the first stop on the Victory Tour. District 11 is also the home of Thresh, a strong tribute from the Games whom Katniss greatly respected, and of Rue, a young girl she formed an alliance with during the Games and who reminded her of Prim.
For hours after, she walks aimlessly, hoping to bump into the Careers. As she’s about to make camp that night, a gift arrives. It’s a loaf of bread, the kind Peeta taught her is from District 11. She thinks of the people from District 11 without enough to eat, pooling their money to give her this, and she thanks them aloud. It is only when Katniss is on her way home, when she changes out of her dress and removes her make-up — removing some of the masks that she has put on for the Capitol — that she begins to feel like herself again. In the arena, she has been the “girl on fire” and a “star-crossed lover.” But in District 12, she is a girl from the Seam.
When they were in the cave and Peeta was telling her abt how he came to like her, she felt “foolishly happy” but again shove down her feelings. She also mentions several times that she does not want to lost the boy with the bread. However, it wasn’t until Mockingjay — when Peeta got kidnapped by the Capitol — Katniss realized how much she cared about him and that she couldn’t live without him.
The relationship between Katniss and Peeta and the way it evolves is a central part of the novel The Hunger Gamesby Suzanne Collins. The reaping of the Hunger Games brings Katniss and Peeta together and thrusts them into the unfamiliar world of the Capitol, but it is revealed their ties started when they were just kids and they are more complex than they appear. I’d say at the beginning of the second book but the real kicker is when he hits the forcefield and almost dies. While both the book and film iterations of the dystopian tale, The Hunger Games, see Katniss end up with Peeta, only the books truly capture why. He loves her as she is, while knowing he’ll never change her and parts of her will always be mysterious and out of reach. He promises her, falsely but selflessly, that her indifference doesn’t hurt him and she owes him nothing.
