Katniss Mockingjay Quotes

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.” (Lee, 76). As seen in To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about growing up and the reality of life, there are various events that influence one’s morality, behavior, and perspective towards life. From the innocence of a child to the maturity of an adult, growing up is a phase that generally everyone experiences throughout their lifetime. The quote above is said by Atticus Finch towards his feisty daughter Scout (who is in fact the narrator of the actual novel); personally, I can pertain greatly to what Atticus said, for I had to learn to depend not on my own strength but on the LORD’s to fight and win my battles, whether spiritual, emotional, physical, or mental. However, this change in attitude did not occur in an instant, but was the result of years of struggles and perseverance, from my childhood to my adolescence; it was initiated with my parents’ announcement of our move from our home in Palmetto, Georgia across the United States to Dinuba, California.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins published in 2008 stars Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch, Effie Trinket, and lastly the cold President Snow is a book that takes place in the future in Panem(North America). The basic plot is that 12 districts are kept in famine and total distress by the Capitol’s leader President Snow. Every year they are forced to send 2 tributes from each district one boy and one girl in a winner takes all death match to keep the districts feel inferior to the capital.

Power is too overpowering sometimes especially for class, gender, and race. TKAM is a book written by Harper Lee in 1960. Mayella Ewell is a white, 19-year-old woman, who accused Tom Robinson, who is Negro, for rape. The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s in the South during the Great Depression where there was a recession. Mayella is not a powerful character based on her class, gender, and race compared to Tom Robinson.

“We had to save you because you're the Mockingjay, Katniss, says Plutarch. While you live, the revolution lives” (Collins). Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games is a complex character who epitomizes the archetype of a hero, however, she also shatters the mold by rebelling against the capital and endangering her whole family. She starts out as a hero to her family, especially her sister, and then becomes the symbol of strength to everyone. Katniss sacrifices herself by volunteering to join the Hunger Games in place of her sister, it is a game of survival where a boy and a girl from each district are forced to fight the other members of other districts to the death. By going out of her ordinary world and preparing to join a game where her life could be taken, she fits right into the archetype of a hero. Her bow and arrow, the weapon that only she can wield, will be the only things to help her survive. Despite these heroic qualities, Katniss makes an erroneous decision and blunder mistakes that shows the reader the flip side of Katniss.

We live in a society where power is positioned in hands that are often belonging to the wealthy, the white and often males. Power has become a thing that is thought to belong to the privileged, minorities are left powerless and are being overlooked and marginalized while others are not. In her book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee has a character named Mayella Ewell stand trial and wrongfully convict an African American man, Tom Robinson. Mayella is special, she is special in the way that even though she comes off as a weak and powerless individual, she definitely is not. Mayella Ewell has power, she has enough power to sway a jury to wrongfully convict someone. This power is her racial and gender power.

Though the black community is sad that Tom Robinson was found guilty they are still faithful that Atticus will protect and defend the black community. Bob Ewell is not happy at all with the way Atticus questioned him and his daughter and the way he defended Tom Robinson. Miss Stephanie says that"this morning Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life"t Jem's reaction to the verdict is that he leaves the courtroom and cries because he didn't think Tom would be guilty and he feels that it is an unfair verdict and he sees the town in an unfair way. I personally thought that this judging was just a way to seem like society was fair by giving a black man a “trial”. However, I think that they were going to say Tom Robinson was guilty either way.

The book is about Katniss, a sixteen year old girl, who lives in district 12 with her mother and her sister, Prim. Each year, the Hunger Games are held, and a boy and a girl from each district are chosen to fight to the death. Prim is chosen but Katniss volunteers to take the place of her in the game. Peeta is chosen as the boy from District 12. The majority of the book takes place in the Arena designed by the Gamemakers. The main goal of the games is to kill the others and be the last one standing. The winner and their

This was after Jem, Scout, and Dill had escaped with their lives from the Radley yard. Jem had just been through a traumatizing experience so he was silent.

The Hunger Games, a novel by Suzanne Collins, is the story of 16 years old, Katniss Everdeen, who fights to death for her district. The Hunger Games is an event hosted every year by the Capitol of Panem, where a randomly chosen boy and girl both need to represent each of the twelve districts that the capitol is composed of. When Katniss little sister, Prim, is chosen to be the representative for District twelve, Katniss volunteers to take her place and fight along her male counterpart, Peeta. The reason I choose this book for my book report is because Katniss is not your typical 16 year old girl. Not only is she her family’s provider but she’s also skillful, strong, rebellious, and unsentimental heroine. These are characteristics that society would mostly link to a 16 year old boy rather than a girl.

“At this time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them - four gunshot blasts that, all told, ended six human lives...” (Capote 5). This quote is significant to the novel because it provides A chilling atmosphere for the book. This quote utilizes the simple nature of the victimized town, as well as to prepare the readers for the big event to come. It was a terrible picture that then shattered to suggest a lasting consequence of the crime on the community. When Dick and Perry decided to kill innocent people in cold blood it marked the beginning of evil in the novel. Holcomb was a quiet town everyone left their doors open and didn't have to worry about crime. The killing put everyone on edge some people even looked at each other as strangers

Harper Lee’s best-selling novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a book with many themes and ideas across the whole thing. Some of them are hidden in characters’ quotes. One character that has many of these “hidden themes”, is Atticus Finch. His quotes display the real meaning of To Kill a Mockingbird because he is very loving and forgiving. Which I believe is the real theme of the novel, love.

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While reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, this quote really caught my attention. It is extremely important to the plot of the story. The quote shows how protective Katniss Everdeen is of her sister, Prim Everdeen. It was Reaping day, the day when district twelve decided their tributes. The Reaping gets packed with all the people in the district.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is both a novel of science fiction and suspense. In Mockingjay, Katniss, her sister Prim, and her friends Finnick and Gale all are forced to adjust to a rigorously structured life in the underground existence of District 13, which has been the preeminent force behind the rebellion in Panem. Feeling somewhat coerced, Katniss in due course agrees to be "The Mockingjay"—a poster child for the District’s rebellion—but only on one condition; District 13's President Alma Coin swears under oath to grant an official pardon to all former Hunger Games tributes, including Katniss's friend Peeta Mellark and Finnick Odair’s soulmate Annie Cresta, and to allow Katniss the pleasure of killing President Snow once he is apprehended. Mockingjay has a multitude of high points and no true low points.

Mockingjay is by far one of the best books I have read in my lifetime. I quite strongly suggest this book to anyone who likes to read books about romance and adventure. It is a story about a girl, Katniss everdeen who is striving to end the reign of the capitol while also struggling wether she really loves her best friend Gale, or Peeta. The characters in this book are very well-developed and authentic. I can relate to them in many ways such as their hardships, personalities, and habits. This book has kept me up night after night not wanting to sleep.