Essay - Hunger Games

Bella Downs

Mrs. Main

January 7, 2016

English II

Essay-Hunger Games

Katniss’s identity is very much shaped through her personal experiences before and during the hunger games.

Part of Katniss’s identity is being a survivor. Even before she went into the hunger games, katniss had to survive everyday by breaking the rules and leaving the district. She knew knew that if she was caught, she would be killed. But she did it any way, to get money and food for her family. This shows her incredible will to survive. If you were in her shoes, would you risk your life everyday to get food to sell and eat, just to make the same journey again tommorow, never knowing when your luck will run out? But it's because of this will that she manages to be feared in the hunger games. Everyday she would use a bow to kill the animals she needed. It was because of this practice that she was able to score an eleven, the highest out of all 24 tributes. This number made her a target. But she was able to survive because that's what she is. A survivor.

But a large part of her surviving is due to her ability to think. Katniss has a remarkable talent of being able to get out of almost any situation. One of these moments is when she needs sleep but realizes that she can't sleep on the ground because the other tributes will find her and kill her. So she finds a tree and climbs up it to a spot where she can sleep. but now the problem is how to stay in the tree while she sleeps. At that height the fall would kill her not tributes. So she takes off her belt and wraps it around the sleeping bag she has on the branch. This is a genius idea. The tributes won't see or find her unless they look up which they never do, but also because she won't fall out of the tree and kill herself because she's strapped in. These actions truely show katniss’s identity of a survivor.