Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen is the main protagonist from The Hunger Games series.
== Charactah Account ==
Katniss is a sixteen-year old girl from District 12, the poorest of the twelve (remaining) districts. After losing her father when she was only eleven, she managed to bring her family back from the brink of starvation almost single-handedly by hunting in the woods outside her district. When her little sister Prim's name is drawn in the reaping to join the Hunger Games, Katniss steps up to take her place, unwittingly setting off a chain of events that will soon engulf all of Panem.
Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is more concerned about feeding her family than being social, making her awkward around people. Though Katniss can be rather blunt, misanthropic, sarcastic, bitingly cynical and cold she has a very vulnerable side which she only shows around her family, and she has a natural maternal instinct as showed when she comforted Prim and helped Rue. She is not very good at acting for the camera and comes across best when she is herself. She is usually very logical except for times when her emotions get in the way.
== Appearance ==
=== Literature ===
* Catching Fire
* Mockingjay
* The Hunger Games
=== Movies ===
* The Hunger Games
* The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
* The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
* The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
== Trivia ==
* Katniss's birthday is May 8th. This is a special day in France for the celebration of Joan of Arc, to whom Katniss had been compared. However, Suzanne Collins has not yet indicated whether this was intentional or merely coincidence.
* Katniss' promotional posters for the films are distinctively unique, albeit the fourth film's posters have unique posters for each character who has one.
** In the first film, she's the only character who is facing and looking right.
** In the second film, she's the only character standing, not sitting in her chair.
** In the third film, each character has the film's mockingjay emblem behind them. Katniss also has it, but hers is aflame.
** In the final film, her subtitle reads "Panem Unite."
* Her favorite color is green and her favorite food in the Capitol is lamb stew with dried plums served on grain.
* Of all the promotional character posters for the The Hunger Games, Katniss' is the only one facing right.
* All the tributes she killed in the Games were Career Tributes.
* Jennifer Lawrence has described her character as "a futuristic Joan of Arc" while promoting every Hunger Games movie to be released thus far, and Donald Sutherland described her as "more dangerous than Joan of Arc" in his initial letter to the first film's director regarding the character of Coriolanus Snow (shown in the DVD featurette "Letters from the Rose Garden").
* In the film, Katniss weighs 122 pounds and has 23-1 odds of winning the Games.
* The two people in her family closest to her, her father and Prim, both died in explosions.
* Her decision to volunteer for Prim for the 74th Hunger Games not only saved her from certain death but saved the country from the oppressive rule of the Capitol. This stated, it is the primary driving event of the whole series.
* Katniss killed both male tributes from District 1 in her two Games after they killed one of her allies; she killed Marvel after he threw the spear into Rue's stomach, and she killed Gloss after he slit Wiress' throat.
* Katniss had received burns in all three books.
* Katniss and Peeta are the only tributes to participate in the games two years in a row.
* When the training scores are revealed, she and Peeta are the only tributes recognized by their first and last names.
* In the Hunger Games A-Z, Suzanne Collins compares Katniss to the Greek warrior, Theseus.
* Katniss, like many former tributes, suffers from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). This was apparent in the movie, as she thought she shot Marvel while turkey hunting. She also had MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) for a period of time after Prim's death.
* There is also a variation from the book as Katniss was meant to have olive skin rather than be Caucasian.
* She was District 12's very first volunteer according to Effie in the first film, while in the book District 12 "hadn't had a volunteer in decades".
* In the book, Madge gave her the mockingjay pin, while in the movie, Greasy Sae gave it to her. She wore it in her suit for the whole thing and also when she goes into the other battles she brings along the pin.
* Katniss's father made her first bow and arrow.
* After the release of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, fans have speculated that Lucy Gray Baird, the District Twelve winner of the 10th Hunger Games, is Katniss's ancestor, based on such clues as her singing voice and knowledge of herbs (likely Katniss's paternal grandmother, assuming Lucy returned to the Seam after the events of Ballad). An alternate theory is that Katniss is descended from Maude Ivory Baird, as both share musical talent and the ability to memorize songs after hearing them once or twice (at least, as children), while preserving Lucy Gray's ambiguous fate in Ballad as well as a more plausible timeline (about 3 generations-worth of Hunger Games).
* Lionsgate confirmed in March 2011 that about 30 actresses auditioned or read for the role of Katniss Everdeen, including Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Saoirse Ronan, Chloë Moretz, Jodelle Ferland, Lyndsy Fonseca, Emily Browning, Shailene Woodley, Danielle Chuchran, and Kaya Scodelario. On March 16, 2011, it was announced that Oscar nominee, Jennifer Lawrence of the indie film Winter's Bone had landed the coveted role. Ross described Lawrence as having "an incredible amount of self-assuredness, you got the sense that this girl knew exactly who she was. And then she came in and read for me and just knocked me out; I'd never seen an audition like that before in my life. It was one of those things where you just glimpse your whole movie in front of you." Though Lawrence was 20 when filming began, four years older than the character, Collins said that the character demanded "a certain maturity and power" and said she would rather the actress be older than younger. She added that Lawrence was the "only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book," and that she had "every essential quality necessary to play Katniss." Lawrence, a fan of the books, took three days to accept the role, initially intimidated by the size of the production.
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== External Links ==
* Katniss Everdeen at The Hunger Games Wiki
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