The Hunger Games Theme- Identity

Peer and family relationships help to change and shape both the identity of Josie and Amal from the novels Looking for Alibrandi and Does my head look big in this? Identity is who someone is and their characteristics. Everyone has an identity although finding that identity can be a challenge but something that has to be done. Identity often changes for the better and is necessary in life. Having positive and negative relationships are a key to changing someones identity. Learning from negative relationships will help create identity, rather than just believing all relationships will be positive.

In many works of Young Adult Fiction that I have had the pleasure of reading, the protagonist, though it may not be specifically addressed, forms some sort of identity for themselves. Due to the fact that I’m talking about YA Fiction, this is often times occurring through a journey of love of some variety. The main characters fall in love, they help each other grow/progress in life, and everyone’s happy for the most part. However, I have seldom read books where, if identity was a theme, they focus mainly on the pain and hurt that forming an identity caused; the raw emotion involved in becoming your own person. While it may sometimes be focused on during points in the narrative, I don’t know of many stories where it’s at the core of the tale. Of the few books I know of, and enjoyed, that have done this, Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee and Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall both address the theme of how through a loss of innocence, one can become their own person. In both, Go Set a Watchman and Under the Mesquite, characters form their identities through changes. in their relationships, and both protagonists go back to their roots to form an identity for themselves.

Katniss is motherly. Katniss must be motherly, stay strong and sacrifice herself for Prim as a mother would do. She must also hunt and work for her family. On pg. 22 the text states, “‘I volunteer’ I gasp ‘I volunteer as tribute.’” This shows that Katniss must be motherly to her sister and sacrifice herself for her sister. Another implication of this would be on pg 9, “They’re not our kids of course. But they might as well be.” This helps you discern that Katniss must impersonate a mother for both her sister and mother so she must sacrifice time and effort for them

Her father passed away in a mine explosion years earlier.Since her father passed away,her mother has stopped caring about the family and gets drunk every day without a care in the world.Therefore,Katniss takes care of her little sister Prim,her mom and herself.That’s when Katniss started to hunt animals to feed her family.Her father taught her how to hunt before he passed away.Her friend Gail,works at the coal mine and goes hunting with her.When Katniss took Prim’s spot in the hunger games she left Gaile in charge of taking care of her mother and little sister

Peeta Son of a baker . Peeta is not necessarily rich , but he does not go hungry and does not have to struggle in away that katniss do to provide for himself and for their families . She is the girl on fire who volunteered to save her sisters life because she cannot bear to see prim go into the games . Prim’s mother descended into a deep depression , which left katniss solely responsible for caring for herself and prim. She must have really loved him to leave her home from seam .

In the novel "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins Katniss Everdeen is the narrator and protagonist. Katniss is sixteen years old, has olive skin, grey eyes and long, black hair which is usually in a braid. These traits are common among the people in the Seam. She is described as one of the smallest Tributes. She is light but strongwhcih is convenient later on when she has to hide on trees in order to survive.

What is identity? A normal person would think that it’s simply defined as who we are. However, there are many definitions of identity, as it can mean differently for others. Identity is what makes us unique from one another because there is no one else like us. Since our surroundings, such as the people we meet and places we go to, possess a role into shaping who we are, we are constantly changing. As we grow up and become curious, we experiences many things and start to see different sides of ourselves. We start to question our individuality, to the point where we may struggle with whom we really are. Similar to Janie Crawford in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie struggles with identity. Throughout

Katniss Everdeen is a teenage girl who lives in District 12, which is an impoverished coal-mining region in the country of Panem. She's a volunteer tribute in Panem's annual Hunger Games, having taken the place of her younger sister in an act of heroic self-sacrifice. Since the death of Katniss father in a horrible coal mining accident. Ever since then, Katniss has taken on the role of her family's head of household. Katniss's mother was unable to cooperate with the loss and fell into a deep depression, Katniss stayed focused and took charge.

During the first games, Katniss's character slowly evolves into The Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss is very humble and focused. She is all about protecting her family. When she left for the capitol, Katniss goes to say her goodbyes to everyone. Furthermore, Prim makes her promise that she will try hard to win. Katniss tells her mother to watch over Prim despite her mother being very ill and sick. Throughout The Hunger Games she stays focused and attentive. Her mind was only set on protecting her loved ones. Even when Katniss struggled with her individuality, her priorities remained the same, which was protecting her mother, sister and Prim.

She feels like once her dad died she shut her and her sister out and didn’t take very good care of them. Katniss expected her mom to find a job so she would be able to buy the necessities they needed. Finally the relationship with Katniss and her sister is a very good relationship. Like Katniss says “How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?” (Page 18, Suzanne Collins).

What is identity? Identity is like music, it’s all entertainment but it’s not all the same kind of music, there all different from each other. You are not born with you identity you have to make chooses, what you do in you life, how you act around other people. I believe you make your identity after you are born.

Identity. Something so elementary to define, yet so onerous to apply to a person. It appears that only through experience can someone manage to partially grasp their identity as they are pushed to confront their environments and respond in an appropriate manner constitutionalized by their identity. In Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games, a novel set in Panem, a dystopian country that was originally North America before the outset of natural disasters, storms, fires, encroaching seas and war, that follows the first person point of view of Katniss Everdeen (Collins 18). The totalitarian government, usually referred as the Capitol, subjects all of the twelve districts to select two male and female teenagers from each district to participate in the Hunger

Identity is a state of mind in which someone recognizes/identifies their character traits that leads to finding out who they are and what they do and not that of someone else. In other words it's basically who you are and what you define yourself as being. The theme of identity is often expressed in books/novels or basically any other piece of literature so that the reader can intrigue themselves and relate to the characters and their emotions. It's useful in helping readers understand that a person's state of mind is full of arduous thoughts about who they are and what they want to be. People can try to modify their identity as much as they want but that can never change. The theme of identity is a very strenuous topic to understand

Identity is what I believe the thing that makes up all human beings. Everybody has an identity, some just aren't as brisk to comprehend what it is or what it means. Identity is generally what someone's traits make up and in my case, I believe I am benevolent, venturesome, and optimistic. Some of the qualities I consider myself to have are not what I would have considered myself to be last year. I believe life lessons that someone undergoes can change their identity and the way they come off drastically.

As we grow up we grow up we form our identity. Identity is our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent’s task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles (Myers, 2016, p.153). Erikson’s statement is true for myself. I have different identities when I am in different environments.