Responsible The Characteristics of Katniss Everdeen

Katniss feels her father death makes her feels she also lost her mother. Her mother locked in some dark world of sadness and did not do anything. Her mother cannot take care of her and Prim. The district had given us a small amount of money as compensation for his death, enough to cover one month of grieving at which time my mother would be expected to get a job. Only she didn’t. she didn’t do anything but sit propped up in a chair or, more often, huddled under the blankets on her bed, eyes fixed on some point in the distance. I was terrified. I suppose now that my mother was locked in some dark world of sadness, but at the time, all I knew was that I had lost not only my father, but a mother as well p. 26-27. Katniss’s father had taught her how to hunt. She often hunted in woods with her father, but after her father died she has to do it by herself. One day she had the good luck to kill a rabbit. When she was at home, her mother tried to cook the rabbit but her mother suddenly went back to her depression. We hadn’t had meat in months. The sight of the rabbit seemed to stir something in my mother. She roused herself, skinned the carcass, and made a stew with the meat and some more greens Prim had gathered. Then she acted confused and went back to bed, but when the stew was done, we made her eat a bowl p. 51. This condition made Katniss thought that she has to act and do something to handle this condition. She does not want if this condition continues, then the community home know her mother cannot take care of her and Prim, the district will take them to the community home. Katniss will not let this happen. She does not want the community home take her and Prim. As a member in this family, she also has to be responsible of the family, especially her mother cannot do so, and she has to make sure that the family is alright and comfortable. To show her existence, she has to take those responsibilities so others can realize her existence and ability. So, she decided to be the leader of the family and take the responsibility of them. Her characteristics which are courageous, persevering, caring and loving, and responsible determine her in facing her problems and showing her existence as a human being who has a responsibility. She is courageous so she could make those decisions. Her spirit makes her believe that she can. Her responsible, care, and love to her family make her willing to act as a leader of the family. At eleven years old, with Prim just seven, I took over as head of the family. There was no choice. I bought our food at the market and cooked it as best I could and tried to keep Prim and myself looking presentable. Because if it had become known that my mother could no longer care for us, the district would have taken us away from her and placed us in the community home p. 27. As a leader of a family, Katniss has to earn money for her family and feed them. She did not wait for anybody to help her family. She hunts in the woods for meats and fish, she also gathers some plants. After she and Gale finished hunting, they usually trade what they got and exchange it for something they need. She tries her best to take care her family. She will do anything possible as much as she can. We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowls of hot soup from large kettle, takes half the greens off our hands in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin. When we finish our business at the market, we go to the back door of the mayor’s house to sell half the strawberries, knowing he has a particular fondness for them and can afford our price p.11-12. As a responsibility to her family, Katniss was determined to feed them. She uses her hunting and archery skill to gain some foods. She is courageous enough to explore the woods although it was slow-going at first when she did not hunt with her father anymore.