Peeta Mellark is a fictional character from The Hunger Games trilogy. Gale explains that after Katniss destroyed the arena, President Snow had District 12. Katniss Everdeen is the main protagonist. President Snow and Katniss have a lengthy conversation about the fact. His compassion gave her hope to not give. The Hunger Games (Literature) - TV Tropes! And may the odds be ever in your favor! In the first book, heroine Katniss Everdeen takes her sister Primrose's place when Prim is chosen to be a contestant (. Her struggle for survival ends up igniting a firestorm that quickly goes beyond her control, until she finds herself embroiled in an all- out war that almost makes the arena look like Disneyland. The three books are: The Hunger Games (2. Catching Fire (2. Mockingjay (2. 01. A feature film adaptation was released in March 2. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow. The film has its own page here. A film adaptation of Catching Fire was released in 2. Mockingjay released in 2. Now with a Character Sheet! Note: The title event of this book series is a fight to the death. As such, Death Tropes and death- related spoilers are plentiful. Then in Mockingjay he accidentally launches a member of the rebel squad into a trap that kills him. Unless you are of the opinion that maybe Foxface knew exactly what she was eating. Acquired Poison Immunity: Snow, as part of his gambit when he made his rise to power. Subverted in that no antidotes are perfect, and he has long- term damage from the myriad poisons he's handled and ingested. Action Girl: Katniss and most of the other female contestants. Actually Pretty Funny In The Hunger Games: Effie after Katniss described the Gamemakers' reaction to her firing at the apple in their roast pig's mouth. While everyone else (Katniss, Haymitch, Peeta, Cinna, and Portia) is laughing outright, Effie is suppressing a smile. After that she agrees that the Gamemakers did deserve that. In Mockingjay: After Katniss kills the last enemy of the war - Coin. Snow, despite knowing he's about to die as well, cracks up laughing. Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: In- universe example. The longer the Games run, the more expensive it is for sponsors to send support to remaining Tributes. Adult Fear: The point of the Games was for the Capitol to show it has so much control over its citizens, they can kill the children publicly and there is nothing the Districts can do about it. This has caused Katniss to swear off the idea of getting married and having kids because she knows they'd have to face the Reaping. She changes her mind, however. Fifteen years after the rebellion that brought an end to the Hunger Games.
Katniss and Peeta come together at the end of the war to restart and rebuild all that was lost to make something.Aerith and Bob: On one hand, you've got normal names like Annie and Johanna, but then on the other you've got more unusual names like Katniss, Peeta, Twill, Plutarch, and Beetee. On the other hand, those names are apparently usual in this new society, as we can pick up Theme Naming: Katniss, Primrose, Gale's surname Hawthorne, Rue and Thresh's names, are all derived from plants and agriculture, and the Capitol and Career districts have names inspired from Antiquity: Plutarch, Seneca, Coriolanus, Cato, Effie (for Euphemia), Brutus, Cressida, Messala, Castor and Pollux, or luxury things: Gloss, Glimmer, Cashmere, Effie's surname Trinket. Affectionate Nickname: Gale calls Katniss . Occasionally used is 'little duck' from Katniss to Prim, due to the latter's habit of having her shirt tails untucked. After- Action Healing Drama: When Katniss finds Peeta in the arena, he has been slashed badly by Cato, and she has to treat him. And get medicine. After the End: Some combination of wars and natural disasters destroyed the entire population of the world except for Panem (North America). There are implications that Panem represents the entire human species. District 1. 2, the smallest District (possibly excluding 1. It also explains why, for all his machinations, Snow doesn't want to risk nuclear war. Airstrip One: The Districts are numbered and segregated by industry. Alas, Poor Villain: Not even an Ax- Crazy. Jerkass like Cato deserves to be Eaten Alive by Mutts for over twenty hours. Some sort of body armor that Cato most likely got from the feast earlier kept him from being instantly killed. The way Glimmer bites it is pretty nasty, especially her cries for help. The Alcoholic: Former District 1. Haymitch Abernathy. In fact, it seems that a lot of Games champions end up with some kind of drug or alcohol addiction, due to a combination of too much money and time on their hands, having no real way to cope with the horrors they faced in the arena, and having to mentor new tributes year after year who seldom if ever come back alive. Aloof Dark- Haired Girl: Katniss could qualify. She is aloof and dark- haired, and admired by many, whether it be her . At least one person mentioned has dyed her whole body pea green. Ambiguously Brown: Collins has stated that we're so far in the future that racial mixing has blurred any categories that might exist today. She refuses to elaborate on what modern races the characters would be categorized as. Katniss herself has olive skin and straight black hair, in contrast to her blonde- haired and blue- eyed mother and sister. Technology in the Capitol, After the End, far exceeds what we're capable of now, but the lower Districts are like third world countries. Some Capitolites are well- educated enough to know about the history of the world Before The Dark Times, but Katniss only has a very vague idea of the Dark Days and the world before Panem. Animal Motifs: Metaphorically, Snow as a snake. Visually, Katniss as a mockingjay. Tigris as a cat- person as both. Annoying Arrows: This happens unless Katniss hits a vital area. The Anticipator: Katniss is a sucker for falling for Anticipator characters. She is caught off guard no less than three times by characters waiting to talk to her. The usual Anticipators typically have power. In Catching Fire, Katniss finds that President Snow is waiting for her at her own house to confront her. He sits in a chair and doesn't even address her immediately and continues reading a book to show Katniss who's the boss. Later on, the trope gets played with. When Katniss enters her home, she is shocked to find that Peacekeepers are in her living room waiting for her. She has to feign normalcy after taking a nasty fall and injuring her hindquarters. Accordingly, the Peacekeepers are surprised to see her, as they set a trap up for her and expected her not to come home. So they were actually surprised by her survival and return. Katniss is surprised by President Snow in Mockingjay when she is walking around in his garden after District 1. Capitol. He is shackled in his garden by orders from President Coin, but he was obscured from view by some flowers. He speaks up and she is startled by his voice. Anyone Can Die: The Hunger Games is actually an interesting example. Many of the characters are guaranteed to die, due to the format of the Games; however, as with most other works, main characters are very rarely if ever killed (depending on who you'd be willing to count as a main character), and only in major events. Katniss, as the first person narrator, inevitably survives the entire series. Everyone else, however, is fair game, especially in Mockingjay, where the country goes into a full- scale rebellion with heavy losses on both sides. Apocalypse How: At least continental, probably global. In the first book, Katniss describes a massive natural disaster: . Some time after that, about 7. District 1. 3 was seen as a particular threat since they controlled the nuclear power and potentially weapons, so the Capitol bombed them into oblivion. Arc Number: Twelve. Victor's Village, 2. Katniss, then voted down to 6, lightning strikes at midnight and noon in a certain section of the Quarter Quell arena, which later becomes important to the plot, and a 1. District 1. 3. Also, in the first book, both Prim and Rue are 1. Rue was one of 6 siblings. Arc Words: . Katniss, having had her eardrum repaired after it was ruptured in the first Games, feigns being able to hear forcefields in Catching Fire during the second games. Artistic License . She also bounces him against the floor. In the book, this only causes yowling, but in real life this probably would've caused him a great deal of injury. She also picks Buttercup up by the scruff of his neck without supporting his rump. Any pet owner will tell you that is a humongous no- no. And after Buttercup is forced into a bag, he allows Prim to tie a ribbon around his neck and hold him in her arms. Both of these actions would probably cause a cat a great deal of distress (possibly causing the animal to retaliate in violence) in real life. Artistic License . Fortunately the thorny roses Snow leaves and primrose are not even mildly similar to look at, so she realizes her mistake pretty quickly. Mistaking one for the other would be more or less impossible. Artistic License . Apparently the Capitol can neither perform autopsies nor test surfaces for presence of toxins. Can't or won't? In Mockingjay, Katniss describes morphling as making her feel numb and empty. For opiate addicts (who've begun to grow 'immune' to the effects) this may be the case, but morphine makes non- addicts feel relaxed, warm and happy, even through emotional depression. Artistic License . Actually, it might have worked anyway. If the tributes were wet enough from the 1. Careers would be zero. If we then approximate the length of the wire from the map that Scholastic Books published and assume that the lightning hitting the tree that Beetee was planning on using is normal lightning, and assuming that the wire is at least AWG 4. The reason lightning doesn't kill fish in lakes is because the water conducts the charge along the top of the water, something which Beetee considers when telling Johanna and Katniss to bury the wire in the lake and not just put it on top of the lake — then the current would travel horizontally through the water, not horizontally on top of it. Planes are supposedly not be able to fly very high because of some sort of vague, inadequately explained .
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