Basically, the main reason I like Katniss is because she is a refreshingly realistic, flawed character. She is also rare in another way - Katniss is a well thought-out, well-written female character, rather than just being there to be a love intrest for a male hero (this might have somethig to do with the fact that Suzanne Collins herself is female).

The Hunger Games
In the first book, Katniss is motivated سے طرف کی a need to get out of the Hunger Games alive. She manipulates Peeta, kills people, and runs on base instincts. What a مزید typical (read: Mary-Sueish) character would have done would probably be very different from this - they would refuse to kill anyone, warn the girl who lit he آگ کے, آگ under the درخت to put it out instead of letting the Careers kill her, brood constantly ov er the morality of their acts - and be completely unrealistic. I mean, if you were to be thrown into a kill-or-be-killed competition, survival and killing everyone else would almost certainly become priorities, because آپ could never go ہوم if there was anyone else left alive.

Catching Fire
Then, in the سیکنڈ book, Katniss, unlike your typical hero would be, is NOT motivated سے طرف کی rebelling, at least not at the beginning. She is motivated سے طرف کی keeping herself and her دوستوں alive, and who wouldn't be? After that, she is convinced to rebel, but it works because it fits with her personality. Finnally, in the Quater Quell, Katnss finnally makes a مزید typical protagoist اقدام - she decides to keep Peeta alive even if it means her dieing. However, here's the catch - it also means all the OTHER tributes dieing. One thing I think is very realistic in Katniss's personality is how personal things are a hundred times مزید important then everything else. As in, if she had to chose between her family and a thousand people she doesn't know dieing, she'd chose the thousand people without batting an eyelash. Well, okay, I'm exagerating, but آپ get what I mean.

Mockingjay
سے طرف کی Mockingjay, Katniss's sanity begins to slip away. Even though some شائقین aren't happy about it, this is quite realistic and I enjoyed watchig (well, reading about) this happen - it started subtly in Catching آگ کے, آگ and سے طرف کی the end of Mockingjay آپ can really see how the war has changed her.. Annie Cresta became insane after just one Hunger Games. Katniss has been through a lot more. Despite this, however, Suzanne Collins manages, unlike many other authors where character development is مزید like character derailment, not to sacrife Katniss's core personality, keeping her recognisable as the character we were cheering for at the very beginning, rather than alienating her from us. Katniss's fireiness that I love is still there, and is what makes up her mind to assassinate Coin.

In the epilogue, it looks like she might actually be finding a way to cope with her life despite everything that has happened to her. Another thing I love about her is the way she Will. Not. Give. Up. Suzanne kept that as well. I chose the picture with Katniss and the quote for this part of the مضمون because I think the quote - "I kill Snow" - really sums up Katniss's drive in this book. Yes, I know she shot Coin instead of Snow in the end, but this way both Coin AND Snow died and she knew it. She would never again have had a chance to assaissinate Coin so easily, and سے طرف کی that time she had figured out that Coin and Snow were not so different after all and she didn't want to put Panem out of the hads of one evil president and into those of another. Mockingjay is one of my favourite کتابیں سے طرف کی far, though I know the majority of the شائقین hated it, and one of the reasons for this is how Katniss develops during it.

Thumbs up, Girl on Fire.