Oppression and rebellion have always gone hand in hand together as they are connected through a cause and effect relationship . Rebellion has always been the direct result of oppression ,that is why tyrants have always tried to silence each and every whisper of rebellion either through violence or coercion . In Catching Fire (2009) , the theme of rebellion touches each and every character to a certain degree , it touches many districts till it reaches the Capitol itself in the through Cinna , Katniss' stylist . Through the events of the book , Katniss steps up to fulfill the role of the Mockingjay , the ultimate symbol of rebellion . Following Gale's whipping , Katniss rationalizes that both of them have always been rebellious .' Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods"(130) are but few examples of Katniss rebellious actions even before setting foot in the arena . This rebelliousness continues to be a character trait , publicly exhibited in the arena as she threatens to commit suicide along with Peeta to deprive the Capitol from its victors . Katniss' brief romance with Gale is also a sign of her defiance and of her refusal to be Snow's pawn , Katniss deduces that she has chosen Gale instead of Peeta because " and a …show more content…
The contrast between life in the Districts and life in the Capitol is astounding . First of all , People of the Capitol are exempt from the Games and only play the role of viewers , taking sadistic pleasure in watching the tributes battle each other to death in order to survive .In his essay "The Joy of Watching Others Suffer ", Andrew Shaffer defines this emotion as "schadenfreude " which is "a word of German origin that means “enjoyment obtained from the suffering of
At the last time they meet before the Games, Katniss cries out, “don’t let them starve! ... [Gale] won’t! You know [Gale] won’t…” (Collins 40). The reassurance is really important for Katniss because she is so concerned about her family, especially about her younger sister Prim. With Gale’s strong guarantee, Katniss can give herself completely to the Games. Gale has influenced Katniss positively by teaching her hunting skills and providing a reassuring guarantee.
In the novel, Mockingjay by Suzane Collins, the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, is the face of a rebellion, whose goal is to overthrow the capitol of Panem from its tyrannical ways. She along with her group, squad 451, are assigned a mission. The mission is designed to penetrate and overthrow the capitol and kill its president to free the country from the capitol's rule.
Katniss and everyone else in the other Districts all realize this, but are unable to do anything due to the size and power of the Capital. That all changes when Katniss participates in the Hunger Games. She knows the power of the Capital and is going to break them from the inside. She is going to completely change who she is, a fighter with instincts with survival, to a girl who is fallen in love with her fellow tribute from the same District, Peeta. She is playing with the emotions of the people in the Capital to get them to love her and Peeta.
Peeta helps Katniss later on in the games after the members of his alliance are killed. They fake their love for each other in order for both of them to survive. Rue shows Katniss how to get rid of the people camped below her. After Katniss gets stung by very dangerous bees she passes out and Rue helps heal the bee stings. Katniss leaves District 12, her home, and travels to the capital. After her training for the Hunger Games is done she is sent into the arena. Characters that try to prevent her from staying alive are the Game Makers. They will try to steer the competitors away from the edge of the arena with bizarre
The boy tribute that is from her district is Peeta Mellark who she knew from long ago. Peeta confessed to the public that he loves her and that begins their friendship. Throughout the games, she watches as tributes are killed and a young girl named Rue is murdered. When this happens, Katniss kills Rue’s attacker. This is the first time that she has ever killed a person, so she takes it very hard. Rue was not only Katniss’s ally but her friend, she was Prim’s age and reminded her of her sister. So, when Rue was killed it struck Katniss deeply. By the end of the games she has come to love Peeta back and it comes down to the two of them. They refuse to kill each other, so they decided to eat berries that are poisonous but the capitol has to have a victor, so the capitol announces that they are both victors. When she did this, it was a direct punch to the capitol and it ignited a spark in the people, that began the process of a revolution. After she returns home, she realizes what her actions caused and that is the real reason that she went there. She was destined to be the Mockingjay, or the leader of the revolution against the capitol. She realizes that she is the only way that the people will unite and fight to
When hunger games start the tributes (participates) pick up their packages and run. Katniss however, does not pick up her package and run just as Haymitch had advised her. She goes deep into the forest and tries to stay hidden from other tributes for fear that that might kill her. She’s afraid but she was also a skilled survivor so she tries to work on a plan of winning the games. She contemplates the odds of her survival, as an ally she had befriended earlier dries. During this journey she discovers her true self and the battle she was once having within herself changes to resentment towards the Capitol. She realizes that true enemy in the Capital. “Rue was death has to forced me that confront by the own fury against the cruelty. No way is
“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.
It also is frightening to see similarities in Panem's society that are also in our and to think that something like this could actually occur. Although this shows a bleak outlook on the future of society, it also shows that people can still have power, just as Katniss
For thousands of years, governments have been oppressing their people. Although their reasons for doing so may have been different, the outcomes were all the same: a revolt of the people. There are many examples of this throughout history, such as in the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The Hunger Games, a tale of a dystopian society filled with maltreatment by “The Capitol,” displays the path to insurrection triggered by the mounting cases of misery brought on by their government, that was attacking lower classes of people. By using common themes of oppression and rebellion found throughout history, The Hunger Games is a striking example of how repression by government will eventually lead to a revolt of the people.
In the Hunger Games Katniss and Gale have a bit of a love triangle while
During the game Katniss have to pretend that she loves Peeta, but inside she knows that her real love was Gale and that he was waiting for her. It was hard for all of them because Gale was outside seeing how Peeta kiss his girlfriend, and for Peeta because he knows that Katniss was in love with another boy and not of him, and to Katniss because maybe she was with Gale, but passing time with Peeta and look how he tries to saved her life make her get confused about her feelings so she focused in what is good for her, and not of what she real want.
she lands herself in some very challenging situations. On one occasion she comes face to face with career tributes and manages to kill two of them with some clever tactics. The servicing career tributes latter become Her toughest competition. After the incident she teams up with a girl named Rue from district 11 together they plan an attack on the Careers. Rue starts a fire to district the tributes while katniss located their supplies and destroyed them. Although the plan was successful Rue was killed while executing her part of the scheme. Katniss goes on to find the other tribute that came with her from her district and helps him out, because of their relationship the capital changes the rules and allows two survivors to return instead of one . in order to speed up the games the district invites the tributes to a feast where they find items the they need. Katniss decides to go to the feast which leaded to an altercation between her and the career tributes and eventual the
In The Hunger Games, there are many significant plots show Katniss and Peeta try hard to overcome many difficulties. To begin, Katniss has a big conflict with Career Tributes who
She starts off the games alone and then she teams up with Rue a young girl district 11. The partnership between Katniss and Rue is tragically cut short when Rue is killed by Marvel after they had destroyed the careers supplies. after Rue's death, Katniss still misses her and wished she could have still been alive" I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.” When Rue died Katniss lay flowers around her body, this could be taken as a sign of rebellion as the tributes are not meant to mourn the dead in the games and giving Rue a funeral was not something that the Capitol wanted her to do. Later when a new rule is introduced saying that there can be two victors from one district Katniss begins to think that maybe both she and Peeta can survive. Katniss begins to pretend to be in love with Peeta to put on a show to please the audience although she does care for him as she risks her life to get the bag to save his life. towards the end of the games, Katniss shoots Cato with an arrow to end his life in doing so she ended the games and denying the people a show and cementing the fact that she is becoming a
While competing in the Hunger Games, Katniss is unsure if Peeta is on her side or not because he betrays her and joins the Careers; plotting to team up and kill the weak. This make Katniss extremely confused, causing her to be uncertain of whether or not she will be able to kill Peeta since he is her supposed star-crossed lover. She also debates with herself because she cannot decide if she is in love with Gale or Peeta. During the Hunger Games, Katniss becomes friends with Rue through the mocking jay pin. Rue is killed, but Katniss remembers her by using the wisdom that she learned from Rue.