Giovanni
Mastroianni, 1
Giovanni Mastroianni
Ms. Szilva
May 28th, 2016
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Lover
Boy
Peeta
Mellark, also known as “Lover boy”. Arguably the most likeable person in the
entire series of the Hunger Games. Always known as the loner, the good guy.
When it comes to Peeta Mellark from the series “The Hunger Games” and the book “Catching
Fire”, he is self-sacrificing, heroic, and loyal. Peeta always puts everyone
else before himself, and that’s what makes him all 3 of these.
To start, Peeta is self-sacrificing. At a time where
District 12, the district where Peeta is from, just like Katniss, is very poor,
no one has any food. Katniss and her family have no food left. Katniss is slowly
starving to death. Peeta’s father is a baker, and him and Peeta bake bread.
Peeta realizes how hungry Katniss is, and wants to help. He deliberately overcooks
the bread, and his mother tells him to give it to the pigs. Instead, Peeta runs
out to Katniss, and gives her bread enough for her and her family. In a
district that is very poor, this is a huge deal to Peeta’s family. He gets into
trouble with his family, and says “My mother hitting me. I was taking out bread
for the pigs and instead gave it to you.”
Furthermore, Peeta is heroic. During the Hunger Games,
Peeta did not want to kill anyone. He did not want to do what everyone else
was. The Careers were coming after Katniss and Peeta. Since Peeta did not want
to kill, he tricked them and pretended to join their side, and led them away
from where he knew Katniss was. After Cato, a career, finds out about what was
happening, he went after Peeta. He severely wounded him, and Peeta got Katniss
out alive. When Katniss was treating Peeta wounds with medicine, he says “So,
if you can quit acting like I’m wounded, I can stop acting like it.” This was
to get Katniss more focused on the game and not to worry about Peeta’s wound.
In addition, Peeta is loyal. For starters, he is in love
with Katniss. But this did not start recently for him. Peeta has crushed on
Katniss since the age of 5. Also, Peeta faked a team up with the Careers in
order to protect Katniss, and did not leave Katniss for the Careers. Peeta
follows whatever Katniss says. The biggest time he followed what she said was
when they were going to commit a double suicide, and they had bother agreed
that they would eat the poison berries. But before the berries, Peeta was ready
for Katniss to kill him. I wanted Katniss to win the game, and told her to kill
him. He says” We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of
us. Please, take it. For me.”
To conclude, Peeta is probably the most likeable person
in the series because he is so self-sacrificing, heroic, and loyal. These
traits make him so appealing to viewers, Katniss, and those who watched him during
the games. He did not have the physical skill to win the Hunger Games, but his
strong mentality is what got him through.
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