questions. The third step is carried out because the data and theories which are needed to answer the questions have to match with the highlighted issue to avoid
any mistake when answering and analysing the question. The fourth was doing the analysis based on the data and the theories that had been collected. In this step the
writer could answer the questions by analysing the relation between the question, the data and the theories. This step is carried out in order to make the boundaries
to avoid the out of topic answer and analysis. Finally the last step was making a conclusion. To shorten and highlight the main point of the analysis is the reason
why this last step is carried out.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the writer will answer the two problem formulations. There will be two parts of this analysis. The first part is answering how the
characteristics of Katniss Everdeen are described in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. The second part is indentifying what struggle for existence is
faced by Katniss Everdeen, and how Katniss’s characteristics influence her in showing her existence.
A. The Characteristics of Katniss Everdeen
Katniss Everdeen is one of the characters in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, because she is a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work,
who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral, dispositional, and emotional equalities that are expressed in what they say-the dialogue-and what
they do-the action Abrams, 1985:23. As the chief character in a story, Katniss can be concluded as a protagonist. She is a round character in this novel because
she has several characteristics while the other characters only have few characteristics. It is also seen in the novel that Katniss is a major character
because she is observed most often in the novel and her appearances are frequent; whereas the other characters are less complex and less intense.
According to Murphy, he explained nine ways in which an author attempts to make the characters understandable and come alive 1972:161-173, but in this
