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A virtue that Katniss shows is sacrifice at the end of the book when her and Peeta decide they will eat the nightlock berries like it says on page 345 it says "I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world" She doesn't know what gonna happen if that capital will care but she doesn't care she will sacrifice her life to show up the capital and show them her life isn't just a piece in their game.

On pg 228 it is interesting how Katniss realizes what the games have done to her. After she is spared by Thresh, she tells him how she tried to save Rue and, when she couldn't, shot her killer, buried Rue in flowers and sang her to sleep. The book says "And I sang her to sleep. Tears spring in my eyes. The tension, the fight goes out of me at the memory". This shows how everything about the Games hits her at once.

On page 226, Katniss shows determination. She does this when she destroys the Careers pile of food and weapons. Her choosing to ally with Rue was an excellent choice. After destroying the pile of food and weapons, Katniss starts to believe in her chance at winning the Games. "Let the 74th Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.", she says. This is showing how her determination finally pays off.

On page 128, Katniss shows the trait of determination, in order to win over the people of Panem when she is interviewed on TV. During the interview she flips an switch and acts differently: "I'm also giggling, which I think I've done maybe never in my lifetime. But the nerves and the spinning have gotten to me". This shows her determination to save her life no matter what the cost even her dignity.

One important part is when, at dinner, Katniss recognizes an Avox but Peeta changes the topic. After dinner she needs to talk about how she knows the Avox. We understand this when she says, "I realize I do want to talk to somebody about the girl" (pg 83). Katniss remembers how she saw the girl captured and another boy killed by soldiers, but she did not help them. This story shows us the cruelty of the government.

On page 17 there show their distain of the government when they talk about how Gale one of Katniss's closest freind is yelling about how much he hates the government in the middle of the woods. She then shows her pinon of the topic to us the reader.

A summary of where I read in the book is how Katniss Everdeen live in a world where they a concealed in a electrified fence (that dosent work) and she lives in the poorest of the twelve districts when her sister is picked she then voulnteers as tribute and takes her sisters place she a male counter part is peta a boy who saved her life once before.