Catching Fire Character Sketch: Katniss

Giovanni Mastroianni, 1

Giovanni Mastroianni

Ms. Szilva

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March 24^th, 2016

The Girl On Fire

            Katniss Everdeen, the winner of the 74th annual Hunger Games. When it comes to Suzanne Collins book “Catching Fire”, Katniss Everdeen is the best. Katniss is the main character of Catching Fire, and the series “The Hunger Games”. Katniss is the best because she is brave, and takes the risk of her life. She is responsible, and puts more than family before herself. She is very intelligent, and can do whatever she wants.

            To start, Katniss is brave. One of the biggest times she shows her bravery is when her sister, Prim, is called to join the Hunger Games. Her sister is very small, and no one would step up for her. Katniss is famous for stepping up for her sister, and saying the very well-known words “I volunteer as tribute”. This results in her sister not having to go to the hunger games, and Katniss showing even more bravery during the games. Katniss took on everyone in the Hunger Games, and won it herself. She showed true bravery to step in, and determination to come out alive, unlike the other 22 people.

Furthermore, Katniss is responsible. Katniss takes on a very tough challenge to take care of her family after the death of her father in an explosion incident. But she also takes on a huge task with it, to take care of a village suffering from a loss of food in the city. She goes out herself and finds as much food as she can for the town, and illegally hunts to feed her starving family.

She is also the leader of a revolution to take down the capitol. Plutarch, a supporter of her revolution, says “While you live, the revolution lives”, showing her responsibility and leadership of her rebellion.

In addition, Katniss is very intelligent. Maybe it was not looked at as the smartest move to volunteer for the Hunger Games, but she showed that she knew what she was doing when she did. She figured out all the complex maps and challenges that the Hunger Games threw at her, and she got by with flying colours. She managed to even out-smart the capitol, and get her and her lover, Peeta, out of the Hunger Games alive. She did this with only poison berries. She describes the Capitol by saying “It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down”

To conclude, Katniss is the best because she is so brave, intelligent, and responsible. These are the traits that got her through the Hunger Games, and are bringing her through everyday life obstacles. She is never brought down, and for that is known as “The Girl on Fire”