Austin Steere 3AC 1: Climax: Katniss holds out the berries, threatening to kill both herself and Peeta, thus urping the power of the Gamemakers. 1: I think she had feelings for Peeta (even though she didn't admit this to herself). But the main reason was that she wanted to protect him just like she did with Prim, and tried to with Rue. She is a lioness by nature and her instinct is to protect but also to protect herself. Remember when she found Rue speared and she first asked "are there more?"
Mariam and her siblings meet some friends along the way but are all ungratefully separated as the book goes on and the Turks try to win power. Mariam and her sister, Marta, reunite at the end of the book but everyone else's whereabouts are kept unknown. Significant Quotation: “We cannot change who we are,” said Marian to Abdul Hassan, “ and I for one would rather die Armenian than live as a Turk.”(Skrypuch, page 80) This quotation reflects a big part of the book. It emphasizes how Mariam would spare her life for her race rather than convert to be a Turk. She tells Hassan basically that you get what you're given and that's what you have to live your life with.
After Lina's Mother died she was determined to have her brother and herself survive. She took on the role of her mother to continue with there journey. “The bald man's questions kept me awake in thought. Was it harder to die, or was it harder to be the one who survived? I was sixteen, an orphan in Siberia, but I knew.
Even though Ismene didn’t help out with the crime she still wanted to risk her life for Antigone, but she wouldn’t let her because she didn’t do the work. Antigone wants to die for the right reason, that she did something right for someone else. But since Ismene didn’t do any of the crime she didn’t want her to die because she did something wrong. Antigone wanted Ismene to live and she descried to live she didn’t do anything wrong. I think Ismene changed her mid because Antigone is her sister and you always stand up for family.
The influence of the men around Andy affected her decision to shoot and kill the doe. While frantically avoiding the death scene she had created, Andrea knew she would no longer be called Andy any more, "Charlie Spoon and Mac and her father crying Andy, Andy (but that wasn't her name, she would no longer be called
Somehow caught in a never ending battle of how to survive. For April Raintree, her battle was both hiding and finding her identity- spiritually, emotionally and physically. Even though April Raintree had so many defining moments in her life, the three main factors that shaped her identity was living with the DeRosier’s, the rape, and the death of her sister. When April Raintree was living with the DeRosier’s, they changed her identity drastically. By living with the DeRosier’s April was taught to hate her people, her family, but she also learned to stay strong.
'Of Mice and Men' The Aftermath 1. Why does the death of Curley's Wife mean the death of George and Lennie's dream? The death of Curley's Wife means the death of George and Lennie's dream due to the fact that, Curley's Wife could have been perceived as a temptation. All you had to do was follow the rules and you would be well on your way to achieving your dreams. The rules being in this circumstance were to keep yourself to yourself, and to save your monthly wages, to be able to afford the ranch.
In this novel, the main character Katniss, who possesses the ability to hunt with great ease and expertise, is called to saving her sister Prims life when she is announced as a tribute. When the representatives from the capitol of her world come to her district for the annual reaping, or when two people are chosen from each district to participate as ‘tributes’ in the Hunger Games, Katnis realizes that her life will never be the same, and for her Prims life is much more important then her own. Katnip as her beloved friend would call her does something completely unheard of and volunteers herself to go to the games in place of her sister. “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.” She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark.
Each of these characters shows their will to survive in their own ways throughout the novel. For example, Lina is forced to draw the NKVD officer attractively and smuggle an owl for her and her family’s survival. She goes against what her favourite artist showed her to draw like and shows her will to survive by hiding a dead bird in her jacket. On the other hand, her mother Elena shows her will to survive in another form. Elena firstly trades her father’s pocket watch to bribe the NKVD officer to not take her son.
“Katherine has admitted it, confessed.” Katherine’s fear of losing her life motivated her to confess that her and a few others were telepathic. First she had a fear about her abilities being found out but then she had to fear her life if she did not tell the norms what was so different about her and why she was running away. “I’ve killed him Michael. He’s quite dead.” Rosalind’s fears lead her to kill a man, yet she felt so guilty about it, although they tortured many of her kind. She may have felt guilty as she thought the norms would find out that she killed the man and then they would kill her.