The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen Sacrifice

Have you ever had to take one of your pets to be put down? Picture yourself taking that animals point of view as it is unknowingly being taken to its slaughter. You are shipped off to an unfamiliar place where you don't recognize anything and death is imminent. Now, picture yourself entering this deadly unknown willingly. Sounds crazy right. Well this is the choice that Katniss Everdeen faced at the reaping, when she was going to be shipped off to the capitol to "participate" in the 74th annual hunger games. This sacrifice of herself was the first of many that she had to make throughout The Hunger Games, soon followed by the sacrificing of her allies, and the other tributes in the arena. Katniss Everdeen had to sacrifice herself multiple …show more content…
She tries to kill Peeta in the games early on, only thinking of herself. She doesn't really question why Peeta is doing what he's doing until she has just about let him die. She tries to kill him by dropping a nest of tracker jackers (genetically modified bees whose stings cause hallucinations, major swelling, and in extreme situations death) in him. She then doesn't go to help him right away due to selfishness. She hears him with the careers early in the games thinking that he was an enemy. "Ill go finish her off," she hears Peeta say about a tribute he had just helped the careers help kill. Although she should have thoroughly thought the whole situation through. When she finally does go to him, he is on his deathbed that she practically put him in. This is not the only instance in the games that Katniss is willing to sacrifice Peeta, she also is willing to let him die in the last few minutes of the games just to make a point to the capitol. She could have just ended it and not caused a problem but instead she was willing to sacrifice both of them in order to make a point that ends up getting a lot more people killed. Katniss sacrifices her other ally in the games too. She uses Rue as bait in order to destroy the careers food supply. There are many things she could have done to keep rue alive, but instead she put Rue into a deadly …show more content…
She kills many people in the arena all to save her own skin. The first of those being Glimmer. Katniss drop's a nest full of angry deadly bees on the ground next to Glimmer. Glimmer is the repeatedly stung over and over until she is dead. Soon following was Katniss killing Marvel with an arrow shot strait into his neck after Katniss had put Rue in a difficult situation and gotten her killed. The last gruesome sacrifice to the games that Katniss made was of Cato. Katniss shoots Cato in the hand which makes him fall into a pack of bloodthirsty muttations (genetically engineered dogs that are bred to kill). Cato is then mauled by these abominations until Katniss puts the last arrow in her position through his head after "the red hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound" (Collins 340). These deaths are not counting the ones that Katniss committed by omission. Katniss could have helped the girl from district 8 in the hours that she had next to her before her death. Katniss could have also helped the boy from district three that ended up being killed by Cato when she went to blow up the careers supplies. Later she stands and watches as Clove is beat to death with a rock by Thresh. The last tribute Katniss killed by omission was Foxface. She unknowingly had Peeta gather berries that were deadly and Foxface ate