Survival: Fight Back

As Imelda Marcos stated, “Doesn’t the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defense, anything goes.” Katniss Everdeen fights to death in “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. When her sister, Prim, is chosen to be one of the tributes in the annual Hunger Games Katniss steps up to take the place for her because Prim is too young. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are taken to the Capitol for training before the competition where the two are taught strategies on how to stay alive in the games. Survival is a huge factor in this rivalry between 2 tributes from each district because the winner of the games is the last one standing. Katniss and Peeta have to fight to the fullest in order to win for their district. In the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins portrays that in order to refrain from death you have to fight back.

One major factor in the Hunger Games is pretty simple, to not be killed. For training Katniss and Peeta meet up with Haymitch. Katniss requested advice from Haymitch and he replied, “Here’s some advice, stay alive” (Collins 56). What Haymitch is saying is obvious, you have to do whatever you can so that you are not killed in the games. Katniss watches, “About a dozen or so tributes are hacking away at one another at the horn” (Collins 151). Many tributes are racing each other to get to the cornucopia before all of the goods are taken. In order to get the goods they have to kill off the other

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tributes so that there are less and less of them. After they have gotten their goods they run off to the woods or to somewhere where they will not be found. Some are already dead, and laying out on the ground.