How Does Katniss Change

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An example of a character that is cut off from its home and family is Katniss, a character from the popular book series The Hunger Games. She experiences this ripping away effect when she is taken from her small family enriched habitat, and is thrown into a battle for her life. Throughout the book you see Katniss change and grow because of this experience, and her bravery never ceases to pause, no matter the circumstance.

In the beginning of the book you hear about Katniss's family and the messed up dystopian life she has to live in. The Hunger Games, their version of like the annual Olympics, is a battle to the death where members from each district or town that they live in have to fight. This fight is viewed by the people who get to stay home safely in each district as a form of enjoyment. Straight as soon as you start reading the book, you see that family is very important to Katniss. She helps provide food, water, and shelter for her family. Her younger sister is actually chosen from her District to compete in The Hunger Games, but Katniss decided to volunteer herself to go in for her sister, this way she would stay safe. This is just the …show more content…
She is faced with tasks I'm sure no teenager would ever be expecting to face. the mixture of fighting for her life but also being expected to end others is something that she would have never expected from living in her District back home. One Brave thing that happens in the middle section of the book that Katniss does is she drops a Tracker Jacker nest on a group of kids from the rich Districts. Tracker Jackers are kind of like modern-day wasps except genetically modified to be extremely wild and painful. From doing this noble and brave thing, Katniss ends up being granted a bow and arrow, what she is very familiar with back home. This ensures her far more safety than before combining her home District roots with this new, scary

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