Katniss Everdeen is the main protagonist and narrator of The Hunger Games trilogy. She was born on May 8th in District 12, and when she was eleven, she lost her father in a mine explosion. She stepped up as the head of her household, hunting to provide for her younger sister Prim and their mother. When Katniss was sixteen, Prim was reaped to participate in the 74th Hunger Games, and Katniss volunteered to take her place. This action set the events of the entire series into motion.