Character write up - Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen was born on the 8th of May in District 12. In the story, she is 16 years old prior to the 74th Hunger Games, she is 5'7" tall.

Katniss was close to her father and spent time hunting with him in the woods, he taught her about hunting, nature and how to use a bow and arrow. Her father also taught her to swim in a pond deep in the outlying woods. When she was 11 years old, her father died in an explosion underground in the mines where he worked, leaving her to take care of her mother and sister. 

In order to protect her mother and sister, she volunteered to take her sister's place in the 74th Hunger Games. She found out that the other tribute from her district was Peeta Mellark, the boy who had saved her family from starvation during her mother's depression by sneaking her some bread from his family's bakery shop.

Katniss's has a mother and sister, her only next of kin apart from her late father. As they are her only two family members, Katniss takes good care of them and treasure them a lot and that explains why she volunteered to take her sister's place in the Hunger Games instead.

The antagonist of the story have to be the people of the Capitol and the rich people from other districts. The district gave a small amount of money to Katniss' family to allow them to grieve for a month before her mother was expected to get a job. If her mother did not get a job, which she will be deemed as an unfit mother, the district will then send her mother and her sister to the community home. 

A story behind this song -

Turbulence - Bowling for Soup

The introduction of the songs starts off with a plucking of the guitar strings, that caught my attention and makes me eager to listen to the rest of the song. 

2 years ago, the very first time I heard this song on the radio and until today I can still remember the lyrics of the song, it motivated me through many tough obstacles and I persevered.

The lyrics of this song clearly explains my thoughts and the situation I had in the past.

"Its so hard to figure out, which way to turn. There's no going back now, all your bridges burned"
this is the first verse of the song, it explains the thoughts I had where I can't find a right direction of life and I've been thinking too much about the past which caused me to be unsure of my directions in life.

"Storm clouds all around you, but a blue skies on the way."
This is the pre-chorus of the song, which is also a very motivation phrase to me personally.
I constantly remind myself with this phrase whenever I met with a bad situation. "Things may be bad now, but eventually it will clear up and resolve."

"And we're all just passengers tonight, and we're all just traveling through our lives. We will reach our destination, so just hang on for the ride. Say a prayer and close your eyes, it's just a little turbulence."
We are all traveling on a very long journey, a journey of lives where we are all passengers. But every journey comes a point where its our destination which is our goal. So say a prayers and hang on, its just a little turbulence which affects our mind a little.

Last but not least.
"Take a look around you, look how far you've come. Your whole life in front of you, you've only just begun. We've all got our problems, but they're just bumps in the road. If you only keep on fighting, there's no where you can't go."
This second verse really keeps me going on and tells me not to give up. Every journey, be it our lives or a bus ride, there's always bumps and unstable roads, but if our minds are strong like the engine of the car, we can definitely over come the humps and slopes of live.