Katniss Everdeen, and Character Strength from Unexpected Sources

[puella_nerdii]

The promised essay for womenlovefest. Some of this is taken from comments I made at Mark Reads; a lot of it is new. HUGE GIANT SPOILERS for Mockingjay, so be warned.

Katniss Everdeen, and Character Strength from Unexpected Sources
by PuelKatniss Everdeen is not the easiest character to like. She's distrustful, judgmental, and prickly; she reacts to kindness

Comments

[koft2009]

I agree and wrote only one part of my commentary on these books so far; the books are not about a love triangle, or cool fights...they are about a damaged girl. She is the product of war, pain, oppression and is a survivor which is what makes her who she becomes. Peeta teaches her to feel by loving her, and Gale, well leaving her behind in the end enabled him to save himself. Peeta and Gale were different but each gave her strength and gifts that no one else had given her. True love, trusting yourself, loyalty, and most importantly the ability to see herself as a real, and amazing person who could learn to see beyond the self loathing, and fear of the pain of losing someone as she did her father, and love and Fight.

But the scenes of her screaming and banging her head on the hospital table, and attacking Haymitch are painful, and I believe beyond the understanding of Tweens. How she attacked her mother after Gale was nearly whipped to death, and how she does consistently sacrifice herself or try to, for those she loves, are all painful and real. The scene when she is lying on the table at the end of CF, and he is sobbing that they all should be dead, and it would have been better to have died; she was just like cant't argue with that as she would have killed Peeta if he had been there, and including herself somewhere along the way, just prpves how scared these young people are.

When we see her having nightmares and hiding in closets, you see how damaged she is, but she has got the fight in her and that is what makes her amazing. She was broken already in the end, but Prim's death finished her off. . But she still took down another person who while using her as a pawn in a game, wanted her dead. She killed her to end the oppression of dictatorship, The Games and to stop the pain

Great Essay.

[koft2009]

Sorry just wanted to clarify she was lying next to Finnick and they were scarred...I spelt it wrong!