Reading Log #1 (Topic Choice 1)-Characters

  The main characters in the story “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” are Katniss Everdeen who is a tribute for the Hunger Games, Gale Hawthorne who is Katniss’s best friend and hunting partner, Peeta Mellark who is the other tribute for the Hunger Games, Prim who is Katniss’s sister, Effie Trinket who is an escort for the 74th & 75th Hunger Games, Haymitch who is a mentor, and President Snow who is the president of Panem. These characters are important because they play a big role for the starring character Katniss Everdeen into the Games. The character Katniss Everdeen is hardworking/responsible and caring. She is quite dynamic because when she sees Gale, she becomes happy, therefore Katniss changes throughout the story. According to page 4, paragraph 1, it states, “The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. All my joints complain and my left leg has been asleep for so long that it takes several minutes of pacing to bring the feeling back into it. I’ve been in the woods three hours, but as I’ve made no real attempt at hunting, I have nothing to show for it. It doesn’t matter for my mother and little sister, Prim, anymore. They can afford to buy butcher meat in town, although none of us likes it any better than fresh game. But my best friend, Gale Hawthorne, and his family will be depending on today’s haul and I can’t let them down. I start the hour-and-a-half trek it will take to cover our snare line. Back when we were in school, we had time in the afternoons to check the line and hunt and gather still get back to trade in town. But now that Gale has gone to work in the coal mines---and I have nothing to do all day---I’ve taken over the job.” This means that Katniss is being dynamic & showing hard work and showing responsibility by saying that she hasn’t done any attempt of hunting in 3 hours but wouldn’t let Gale’s family down, therefore she will try to do whatever she can. Also, another piece of info which shows that she’s caring is on page 5, paragraph 1, which says, “I think of Gale, who is only really alive in the woods, with its fresh air and sunlight and clean, flowing water. I don’t know how he stands it. Well . . . yes, I do. He stands it because it’s the way to feed his mother and two younger brothers and sister. And here I am with buckets of money, far more than enough to feed both our families now, and he won’t take a single coin. It’s even hard for him to let me bring in meat, although he’d surely have kept my mother and Prim supplied if I’d been killed in the Games. I tell him he’s doing me a favor, that it drives me nuts to sit around all day. Even so, I never drop off the game while he’s at home. Which is easy since he works twelves hours a day.” This means that Katniss tries to give what she doesn’t need towards Gale’s family who doesn’t accept her givings, but still worries or cares about them. To sum it all up, this shows Katniss Everdeen is hardworking/responsible and caring.