The book Hunger Games is a book of many characters. Some characters evil, and some not as evil, such as Katniss Everdeen and Primrose Everdeen. My personal definition of a good person is someone who helps others, isn’t selfish, and is someone that cares about others. I think Peeta Mellark is a character who fits this definition. I think this because even though he did some bad things, they were all for someone else’s sake.Peeta Mellark is a character who I think is the opposite of evil.
Peeta Mellark displays that he helps people in the middle of the story. This becomes clear when Peeta prods Katniss to run, so she doesn’t get killed by tracker-jackers or other tributes. He yells this to Katniss,”Run” he screams. (Collins Page 192) In other words, Peeta was trying to save Katniss and told her to run. This event illustrates that he can be helpful and is a good character because she probably would have died if he hadn’t made her escape.
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The author establishes this when Peeta urges Katniss to safety from the mutts, even though he is the one who needs help because of his leg injury. Peeta tells Katniss,”Go, Katniss! Go.” (Collins Page 326). In other words, Peeta cares enough for Katniss to want her to escape. This event illustrates that he is a caring, good person.
Many people might see Peeta as a backstabbing, unworthy baker from a poor district. That perspective however, ignores the many things that Peeta did that shows he is a good character. Peeta does have many flaws, and he makes many mistakes, but he also performs helpful acts, unselfish acts, and caring acts. Peeta deserves to be a good character among the other good characters in Hunger Games. A good person does not have to be perfect, but a good person does need to be good to others, and that is something everyone and anyone can do.
Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games. Scholastic: Corporation, 2008.
Suzanne Collins demonstrates that the heroine Katniss is a good hero in “The Hunger Games” through bravery, inner strength and compassion. This is expressed through emotive language, repetition and descriptive language.
In this lesson Atticus teaches Scout that you must understand where someone comes from in order to show true sympathy and compassion. Now before Scout judges someone she steps into their shoes. Allowing her to show compassion towards that person and many more. She has learned that the most compassion you can give someone is sympathy and understanding. Jem also learned these lessons but through experiences and challenges he had to face and go through.
Throughout The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Peeta Mellark endures a dramatic change and grows into a much more dominant person. Katniss is up in a tree when she realizes that the tributes (other people in the games) are coming her way to kill a competitor within her area, and she sees that unexpectedly Peeta is with them. Katniss tells her readers "An argument breaks out until one tribute silences the others. 'I'll go finish her and let's move on!' I almost fall out of the tree. The voice belongs to Peeta," (Collins 160). If gender is just an imitation of an ideal, at that time Peeta really proved that stereotypes are true by being the alfa male of the group. So Peeta definitely proved that in the end he
According to Joseph Campbell, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Everyone imagines heroes differently. Heroes do not always have to have supernatural abilities. They can simply be regular people who make a difference in someone’s life. Peeta, from the Hunger Games Trilogy, is a hero in his own way. Peeta is just a regular young man until he is forced to go into the arena and fight to the death on live television. Peeta does not know the effect he is going to have. Peeta gave people hope and faith. Peeta does not try to become a hero, but the choices he makes are what led him to be known as a hero.
18. “Came to redeem an unworthy world.” The world that is the reality for Peeta, Katniss and the rest of the districts is filled with extreme inequality, hardships and suffering. Traditionally, there is only one sole winner of the annual Hunger Games. Through an act of defiance against the Capitol both Peeta and Katniss threatened to kill themselves. Later on in the series Peeta joins a rebellion group in an effort to redeem the nasty world the Capitol
The truth of this statement is exemplified throughout the entire series of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The narrator and main character is rebel leader Katniss Everdeen, who finds herself in the middle of two men who both mean a lot to her: Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne.
He is their mentor and the one who will tell and show them tactics to survive in the Hunger Games and also teaches them what the Hunger Games does to you so they could manage to survive are the significance of Haymitch to Peeta and Katniss.
Throughout the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Scout’s changing understanding of empathy to show growth and maturity in Scout. She uses empathy to better understand the feelings of others. Especially in difficult times, to understand the world from another person’s perspective. She uses her father’s advice to guide her through tough times, and be a better person overall.
As Scout begins to consider people?s opinions about prejudicial behavior she soon feels obligated to understand these racial judgments. Scout, being the curious and forthright girl she is, feels that only way to do so is by interrogating these estimations. ?As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem?s skin and walk around in it? (57). At this specific point in the novel, it is clear that Scout has learned a valuable lesson. The social lesson accomplished is never to judge anyone before determining their past experiences or hardships. Not only Scout?s social well-being, but her mental and emotional well-being progress extensively throughout the events of the novel. This is clearly defined by the following quote. ?Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore, I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold it in, the better off everybody would be?(74). The quote stated by Scout proves that she is willing to mature at such a crucial time as the trial. She discovers that it is more important for Atticus to focus on the defending of Tom Robinson, a Negro accused of raping Mayella Ewell, instead of focusing on her minor problems. This particular sacrifice portrays the fact that Scout is beginning to realize the amount of prejudice in the town and wants her father to help people accept racial differences. As Scout?s journey through racial
In To Kill a Mocking Bird (TKAM), the events and people of Maycomb are seen through the innocent eyes of a young child, Scout. Scout shows pure courage and bravery through many of her actions. Scout’s main source of courage is through the observation of words by her father, Atticus. Within the novel, Scout shows her courage in withstanding the temptation to fight, following her father's inspirational words in telling her not to do so. In Chapter 15, Harper lee utilises perspective to show how courageous Scout is to protect her father from a mob. "I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, 'Scout's a coward!' ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever
After Scout's bad first day of school she decides that she will not go to school anymore because she doesn't like her teacher. After she gets home he talks to her for a while and then tells her "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." He says that the teacher can't learn all of their ways on the first day, but what he is really saying is that you need to see the other person's point of view if you really want to understand them. Atticus always uses this policy and this makes him a great hero. One time at Christmas when the whole family is gathered together at Finch's Landing, like they do every year, Scout gets into a fight with her cousin Francis because he calls her dad a "nigger-lover". She beats Francis up and her uncle Jack spanks her and she tells him, "When Jem an' I fuss Atticus doesn't ever just listen to Jem's side of it, he hears mine too." This makes Atticus a hero because when he sees Jem and Scout fighting he doesn't just draw unfair conclusions, he listens to both sides of the story and sees things from both points of
On page 135 the book had said that “It was my Idea. Says Peeta. Haymitch just helped. You made me look weak. Said Katniss. He made you look desirable. Said Haymitch”. This goes to show that when Peeta said that he had like Katniss he had just said that to turn the tables and hope to get more sponsors. This is a good example to think that Peeta was just playing the audience.
Some literary devices in The Hunger Games prove Peeta and Katniss both fight so hard in the game. Firstly, symbol is one of the good literary devices that reveal Katniss always works hard physically in the game. For instance, Katniss’s dress that burns on the fire symbolizes Katniss’s fighting spirit. The reader knows Katniss is “the girl who was on fire” (Collins 78). Consequently, Katniss never gives up in the game despite she often has many difficulties in a hard situation. Likewise, smile is another literary device which shows Peeta is also very diligent in a psychological way. For example, the reader can know Peeta tries to become optimistic in the game even if he is in a bad situation, because when “Peeta wriggles back inside his fact lit up like the sun” (Collins 302). As a result, Peeta tries hard to make himself to be hopeful and confident to win in the game. All in all, these literary devices provide the evidences for the
Katniss was always very close to her little sister Prim. Prim meant the world to her and she always did her best to protect her. Katniss loved Prim so much that she even put her own life before hers when she “stepped up to take Prim’s place”(24) as tribute. Katniss’ father was a very influential on her. He taught her how the woods could provide for her but also that they could be dangerous. Even after he had died he was still important to her. After her dad past, Katniss’ mother became drastically depressed and was unable to provide for her children. Katniss never truly forgave her for abandoning them in their time of need. With her mother in a comatose state Katniss decided she would have to protect and provide for Prim. All the hunting, gathering and buying of tesserae was for Prim’s sake. To keep them out of the community home
Haymitch is Peeta Katniss mentor because he was once in the Hunger Games and won so he had experience.When they asked Haymitch about what can help them when he said being liked and getting sponsors can help not necessarily win but it can help your district that he's from . I think Peeta wanted to train alone because he wants to tell Haymitch if he could say that he likes Katniss and this would make her more popular and get her sponsors. Peeta wants to be able to play the game separate from Katniss so he can plot behind her back. Later in becomes evident that he just wants to protect her from the other tributes. But Katniss is confused and hurt from Peeta request. I don’t really think it will help him because he making her more popular and