Summary
Katniss is a 16 year old girl who lives in District 12 of Panem. She has long black hair which is almost always in a braid, olive skin, and grey eyes which is the typical traits for someone from the Seam ( the slums of district 12). She lives with her Mother and 12 year old little sister Prim Everdeen. Her dad had died from a mining explosion, and her mother went into depression over it. So from that day, Katniss had to take care of herself and the rest of her family. Katniss is really skilled with a bow and arrow. She began hunting everyday for food, just as her dad has taught her when he was alive in order to provide food for her sister and mother. During one of those hunting days she met Gale Hawthorne and later became hunting partners with him. When it was time to draw the names for the 74th annual Hunger Games Prim's name was called but Katniss volunteered to take her sister's place in the games instead along with a male tribute from district 12, Peeta Mellark. Katniss is a very determined, and skilled person. She was told by Gale before the games that she could use her Hunter senses to help her in the Games but killing a person won't be that much different from killing an animal. During the games, Katniss began to owe Peeta many times for helping her when she was in trouble, which isn't something she wanted because she didn't want her guard down. Katniss had to pretend to be star crosses lovers with Peeta when he announced his love to her infront of the audience in order to help her with sponsers. Later on in the book Katniss found out that Peeta all this time was trying to help her and maybe isn't pretending to be in love with her. There was a new rule change in the games that allowed 2 tributes from the same districts to win and so Katniss was determined to find Peeta. Katniss ended up finding an injured Peeta and swore to keep him alive. Katniss only pretended to be in love with Peeta in order to get Haymitch to send them gifts from sponsers. Eventually with the help from Haymitch and detemination Katniss killed Cato which was the last tribute left to kill before they won the games. But the gamekeepers decided to switch back to the old rules and have only one winner. So Katniss had this idea to eat nightlock which are poisonous berries that would kill her and Peeta when they eat them to embarass the Capitol at their own game. So the gamekeepers gave in and let them win but Katniss later found out that she's in a lot of trouble for pulling that trick. Katniss finds out that the only way she can save herself and the people close to her is to pretend that she only thought of the double suicide was because she was so in love with Peeta that she didn't know what to do. At the end Peeta found out that Katniss was only pretending to love him and he treated her coldly.