What Role Does Peeta Play In The Hunger Games Katniss

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Essay Peeta may be a bread boy, but also has the strength of more than a bread boy. I say that I like peeta, he is sweet, kind but don’t let that discourage you, because he is also clever. In the hunger games he portrays katniss, we think unlike of him when he does this. But the real question is, is this just part of peeta’s strategy or is he trying to survive and protect katniss by portraying her. As he charms the capital and makes everyone like him, he sees it as a strategy for more sponsors to survive in the hunger games and especially against katiss. She is a tough warrior and is capable of surviving in the wilderness by herself as we can see already. Therefore, peeta must survive and beat katniss through mentally strategizing. He does…show more content…
They know that they are both fighting to survive and so katniss can go back home to take care of prim mostly and her mother. And the capital doesn’t like it and right at the last minute before they take their lives, they change the rules of the games to show everyone that they are still in power and not anything can happen in the hunger games, so be scared, very scared. In the book, katniss father gets killed in a mining explosion and can no longer provide for them, so katniss has to step in and become the household income of the house. The mother is out and no one’s home, katniss’s seen this and has to do something. She can’t let her sister die from starvation, so she hunts for food, and becomes a good hunter at shooting arrows. They don’t have a lot of money, so this is a way out for her to have fun and not be in the district. It allows her to advanture out in the woods and her things, and to be a kid with gale. The key players in the book so far are; Katniss, peeta, prim, haymitch, and gale. Katniss plays the leading role as the strongest and brave, peeta is seen as weak but also sweet. As we read prim is young and innocent as her character, haymitch has won one of the hunger games and is a warrior for doing so. And there’s gale, he is not talked much in the book so far but I am sure he will have more to say and do in the next book, I
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