Persevering The Characteristics of Katniss Everdeen

She protects Prim so much and did not let anything bad happen to her sister. She takes care of her sister as good as she can in order to avoid the community home. She never wants them to take Prim to live at the community home. It is seen through her thoughts. I could never let that happen to Prim. Sweet, tiny Prim who cried when I cried before she even knew the reason, who brushed and plaited my mother’s hair before we left for school, who still polished my father’s shaving mirror each night because he’d hated the layer of coal dust that settled on everything in the Seam. The community home would crush her like a bug. So I kept our predicament a secret p. 27. It is also stated through Katniss thoughts that she does care for some people even though she hardly smiles. It shows that Katniss realizes she is a caring person. It’s not as if I’m never friendly. Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people p. 122. Katniss loving characteristic also reveal directly through her speech when Caesar asked her about her sister in the interview with the twenty four tributes before the Games start. “Let’s go back then, to the moment they called your sister’s name at the reaping,” says Caesar. His mood is quieter now. “And you volunteered. Can you tell us about her?” No. No, not all of you. But maybe Cinna. I don’t think I’m imagining the sadness on his face.”Her name’s Prim. She’s just twelve. And I love her more than anything p. 129.” Katniss showed her care to Rue through her reactions when Rue came to her after cure her from the tracker jackers. Katniss asked Rue to eat her kills together. Then, Rue did her second cure for Katniss and then Katniss notices a long burn on Rue’s forearm. She gave the burn medicine which she got from the sponsors to Rue. Katniss also asked Rue to become an ally because she thinks Rue is a survivor who also helped, cured, and saved her from the deadly tracker jackers. Especially Rue reminds her of her sister, Prim. Rue stuffs another handful of leaves in her mouth, and soon I’m laughing because the relief is so sweet. I notice a long burn on Rue’s forearm. “I’ve got something for that.” I set aside my weapons and anoint her arm with the burn medicine. “You have good sponsors,” she says longingly. “You weren’t joking, about wanting me for an ally?” she asks. “No, I meant it,” I say. I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she’s a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim p. 201. Latter, Katniss saw Rue really enjoy her meal. Rue told Katniss that she never had a whole leg to herself before, it made Katniss asked Rue to eat whatever part of the kills she wants. Katniss also informed her next she can get more kills and she can show Rue how to set snares. Those are really showed Katniss’s care and love to each other, and how she could not stand to see a young girl alone to survive. She also tried to help and take care of Rue as she could. It is seen through her speech to Rue. “Oh,” says Rue with a sigh. “I’ve never had a whole leg to myself before.” I’ll bet she hasn’t. I’ll bet meat hardly ever comes her way. “Take the other,” I say. “Really?” she asks. “Take whatever you want. Now that I’ve got a bow and arrows, I can get more. Plus I’ve got snares. I can show you how to set them,” I say. Rue still looks uncertainly at the leg. “Oh, take it,” I say, putting the drumstick in her hands. “It will only keep a few days anyway, and we’ve got the whole bird plus the rabbit.” Once she’s got hold of it, her appetite wins out and she takes a huge mouthful p. 202. Katniss was worried about Rue’s safety when they decided to separate for doing their mission to trick the Careers tribute. It is clearly show through her thoughts how caring she is. Unexpectedly, Rue throws her arms around me. I only hesitate a moment before I hug her back. “You be careful,” she says to me. “You, too,” I say. I turn and head back to the stream, feeling somehow worried. About Rue being killed, about Rue not being killed and the two of us being left for last, about leaving Rue alone, about leaving Prim alone back home. No, Prim has my mother and Gale and a baker who has promise she won’t go hungry. Rue has only me p. 213. Katniss reaction when Rue was dying after a boy from district one threw a spear into Rue’s body showed her care and love to Rue. She stayed in Rue side until Rue last breath. She made Rue comfortable by pulling Rue’s head onto her lap, brushing Rue’s hair gently, and even singing as Rue wish her to. Although she have not sung much since her father died and she does not know much song, she tried to do Rue’s last request. “Don’t go.” Rue tightens her grip on my hand. “Course not. Staying right here,” I say. I move in closer to her, pulling her head onto my lap. I gently brush the dark, thick hair back behind her ear. “Sing,” she says, but I barely catch the word p. 234. When Rue died, Katniss was drowning in sadness. She cried a lot but she was still singing, finishing her song for Rue. Then she treated Rue gently. She kissed Rue’s temple, laid Rue’s head back on the ground and released Rue’s hand. Her care and love for Rue is also seen through her reaction. For a moment, I sit there, watching my tears drip down on her face. Rue’s cannon fires. I lean forward and press my lips against her temple. Slowly, as if not to wake her, I lay her head back on the ground and release her hand p. 235-236.