How old is katniss everdeen in the book

Finnick comforts her, and they watch the propaganda again. Katniss tells him to shut the television off but stops him because Caesar is going to interview Peeta. She notes Peeta lost fifteen pounds and watches the interview. In the interview, Peeta asks Katniss why she joined the rebels, and if she didn't know, she should find out.

After watching it, she pretends to have not seen it because Plutarch walks in and makes sure she is well. She is overwhelmed by Peeta's interview. Katniss and Finnick go to the woods to hunt in District Katniss talks about Peeta's broadcast from last night and questions why no one is talking about it.

Katniss is thankful that Finnick is here to listen to her. The next day, Katniss and Gale have tension between them. Katniss is furious that Gale did not talk or say anything about Peeta's interview. Gale tells her it was to protect her and that he had to lie.

Katniss, enraged by this, tells him to leave her alone and to stop lying to her. The next day, Katniss is informed she must go back to District 12 with Gale and the others to shoot more shots for the propaganda.

Katniss goes to the remains of her home and feels pain inside of her. Katniss feels more pain when Gale asks to go to his house, but Cressida tells him to react to the night of the bombing. Katniss goes and communicates with an Avox that escaped the Capitol, Pollux.

She sings "The Hanging Tree" to him but is cut off by Cressida. Katniss begins to forgive Gale because the two must stay together. Katniss goes back to the Victor village and searches the area. Katniss and Gale kiss because they are both in pain, and the only way to escape it is by doing this. A few days later, Katniss watches another interview with Peeta and becomes overwhelmed. When Peeta warns them of the attack, he is beaten, and his blood splatters across the screen.

Katniss sees this and goes into shock. She backs up Haymitch's theory that it is a warning of a bombing, and the inhabitants of District 13 retreat to a safe bunker. When Mrs. Everdeen arrives and is not with Prim, Katniss deduces that she went back for Buttercup. She stops the doors from being closed and locked in time for Prim and Gale to enter.

Katniss stays with her family in one area, and after the first bombing, Mrs. Everdeen leaves to the first aid station to help. Katniss is worried about Peeta, but Prim comforts her and tells her President Snow wouldn't kill him because he needs him.

Katniss asks what she thinks will happen to Peeta, to which Prim replies, whatever it takes to break her. Katniss plays with Buttercup during the night with a flashlight and imagines how she can get Peeta back.

She goes to Finnick and shares her ideas on Snow's plan. Finnick tells Katniss he is doing the same but with Annie. The two continue to talk about President Snow's plan. Katniss, while shooting a propaganda, announces she can't take it anymore, then breaks down along with Finnick. President Coin assembles a rescue team to retrieve all victors in the Capitol, and Gale is the first person to volunteer. In a daring rescue, Peeta and other victors, apart from Enobaria, are rescued from the Capitol.

Katniss feels helpless when she is left out of the rescue mission. When she goes to visit Finnick, the two talk about the mission and how if they die, it won't be bad because they won't have to feel any more pain. Haymitch informs them that they can help by shooting a propaganda. Katniss does an interview and tells them how she met Peeta and informs them of the time when President Snow told her the Capitol is fragile.

She tells them it is because the Capitol depends on the districts, and without them, they would fall. Katniss is informed the rescue party had arrived home safe. She sees Johanna and Annie are alive and that Peeta has been saved. However, Peeta has been hijacked into hating Katniss, and tries to strangle her to death upon their reunion. Katniss receives medical attention after the attempted strangulation. Prim comforts Katniss and they are informed by Plutarch that Peeta was brainwashed by the Capitol and is receiving all the treatment they can give him.

Katniss is deeply depressed by this and goes to visit Gale and Beetee. She is sad that Gale and Beetee are building weapons to help their efforts but aren't thinking about the innocent people who may be injured in the process. Katniss meets Delly Cartwright and informs her of Peeta's condition. Katniss watches Delly talk to Peeta and his outburst to her, shouting that Katniss is a muttation and District 12's destruction is her fault.

Katniss tells Plutarch if she is going to be the mockingjay, he must send her away from Peeta. She asks to be taken to the Capitol so she can end the war by killing Snow, but Plutarch tells her she can't until all the districts are on the rebels' side. Plutarch tells Katniss District 2 is the only district still with the Capitol because District 2 and the Capitol have a close relationship with each other.

District 2 supplies the Capitol with Peacekeepers and Stone and the Capitol pays a lot in return, therefore being a wealthier district, and so she asks to be sent to District 2. While there, the group tries to think of a way to attack in, which would give them control over District 2. Gale suggests that they blow up the inside of The Nut, which upsets Katniss because Gale is willing to kill innocent people for the rebellion.

The rebels take control of the districts and finally begin an assault on the Capitol itself, which Katniss is a part of. However, an assault on a "safe" Capitol neighborhood goes wrong, and Katniss and her team flee further into the Capitol with the intent of finding and killing President Snow. While he is hijacked, he is driven to kill Katniss, but fought it off by remembering memories of Katniss and his deep love for her.

Peeta wanted to die because he had impulses to kill her; on several occasions, he asks her to shoot him, give him nightlock, or just leave him to die. Peeta feared he would eventually overpower Katniss. Nonetheless, she stayed by him and comforted him. Eventually, they both became closer and their love became deeper.

The squad goes further into the Capitol, dressed as Capitol citizens. Eventually, Katniss finds herself pressing on alone towards Snow's mansion which has supposedly been opened to shelter Capitol children but is actually intended to provide human shields for Snow. Afterward, bombs placed in supply packages kill many of these children and a rebel medical team, including Katniss' sister, Prim.

Katniss is burned by the explosion but receives medical attention at the Capitol hospital. President Coin visits her and tells her the rebels have won and she has saved Snow for Katniss to kill. Though Snow is tried and found guilty, he tells Katniss the final assault that killed Prim was ordered by President Coin , not the Capitol. Katniss realizes that if that was true, the bombing may have been the result of a plan originally developed by Gale.

Katniss doubts this, but still realizes that she will never be able to look at Gale the same way, regardless of whether he was directly involved in Prim's death. Coin gathers the seven remaining victors who survived and proposes a final Hunger Games but with the children of the most powerful people in the Capitol.

Katniss remembers a conversation with Snow in which they promised not to lie to each other. When she is supposed to execute Snow, she realizes that he was telling the truth and kills Coin instead.

A riot ensues and Snow is found mysteriously dead, having possibly choked on his own blood or trampled by the crowd.

Katniss is admitted to a secure holding room but acquitted due to her apparent insanity and returns to her home in District 12 , while Gale goes to District 2 to work in the military and Mrs. Everdeen begins practicing at a District 4 hospital, unable to go back to District 12 due to the pain.

Still destroyed over the death of Prim, Katniss becomes depressed and suicidal. Peeta returns soon after as well, having recovered immensely from his brainwashing. He plants primroses around Katniss' house as a memorial for her sister. Katniss begins to heal, and her relationships with Peeta and Haymitch recover as well. After a while, Katniss and Peeta put together a book of all of the characters that died at the end of the series.

Katniss writes all of the facts about the victims, including Rue, Prim, Boggs, Finnick, and more. Peeta draws all of the pictures in the book, if they had not found a picture of them.

Peeta plays one final round of Real or Not and says, "You love me, real or not real? In the epilogue, Katniss speaks as an adult, around twenty years later. She and Peeta have two children together-a girl and a boy. By this point, the Hunger Games are over, the arenas have been destroyed, and memorials have been built for the tributes and others who died in the wars. She and Peeta have settled in a meadow, where their children can play in peace and harmony.

She dreads the day her children's innocent world is shattered by learning the details of their parents' involvement in both the Games and the war, though Peeta assures her that they will be okay, that they have each other and the book. Katniss is still affected by post-traumatic stress disorder in the years following the Games and the war.

When she feels upset, she has taken to reminding herself of every good thing that she has ever seen someone do. She ruefully acknowledges that this routine is a bit of a tedious game for her, but that "there are much worse Games to play".

Katniss mentions she can never stop owing things to Peeta. When she was starving after her father's death, he burnt some bread intentionally, and endured his mother's wrath so he could give some to her. This moment of him showing compassion gave her hope to not give up in this dark time, and to carry on living. Though she wanted to thank him, she never did. However, their eyes met in school the next day, where Katniss held a dandelion in her hands as she and Peeta looked at one another.

They both became tributes of District 12 in the 74th Hunger Games after Katniss volunteered in place of her sister, Prim. During their training, Katniss refused to trust Peeta when he did nice things for her, believing it to be part of his strategy.

It isn't until Peeta reveals in an interview that he is in love with Katniss. At first furious, she apologizes for lashing out at him, feeling guilty when she realizes that Peeta's confession would be of great help to her in securing sponsors. In the arena, he joins forces with the Careers and encounters Katniss who is hiding in a tree.

Peeta suggests that they wait her out, but then helps her escape after she drops a nest of Tracker Jackers onto the Careers. Peeta risks his life to save her, holding Cato off to secure her escape. After discovering two tributes from the same team district can win as a pair, Katniss searches for Peeta , and after she finds him on the brink of death, nurses him back to health. They spend several days in a cave until he's better, with Katniss risking her life to get the medicine needed to heal his leg.

During that time she kisses him, flirts with him, and even sleeps next to him in his sleeping bag, playing the part of a girl falling in love. Katniss and Peeta share a passionate kiss in the cave, which Katniss later admits to being confused about, as she experienced a 'hunger' that she had never known during this kiss, and feels it was the only kiss that they shared that was real.

After they win the Games, Peeta is heartbroken when he discovers that Katniss was mostly acting. There is a rift in their relationship after this, though Katniss admits to being confused about how she feels for Peeta, and fears letting him go and having to face the future on her own.

In Catching Fire they reconcile and resolve to be friends, spending time getting to know one another. Peeta comforts Katniss in the night when she has nightmares, sleeping next to her during the Victory Tour and when they are reaped for the Quarter Quell. When Katniss is injured after falling whilst climbing the electric fence around District 12, Peeta helps nurse her back to health, carrying her around her home and sketching and painting alongside her.

When they are reaped, Katniss and Peeta spend several days on the rooftops of the training center, enjoying the little time they have left together in peace and contentment, watching sunrises and having picnics.

During the Quarter Quell , Peeta is electrocuted after colliding with a forcefield, and his heart stops. Though Finnick is able to restart his heart, Katniss cries and screams over him, relieved that he is alive and terrified and broken when she believed he was dead. Later, on the beach, Peeta tells Katniss that he wants her to live, as she has a family that she loves and needs, and can have a future with Gale, giving her his locket which contains a picture of Prim, her mother, and Gale.

Peeta sadly reflects that no one really needs him, and it is here that Katniss realizes that she needs him. That she would never be able to recover if he were to die, and she at least realizes the depth of his love, his willingness to sacrifice everything for her. It is then on the beach she realizes how deeply she actually cares about him and kisses him naturally and passionately, not for the cameras, but out of her affection for Peeta.

Like their kiss in the cave in their first Games she wishes that she could shut out anyone who's watching and for once have a moment when it is only the two of them. He later gives her a pearl, jokingly referencing a comment that Effie once made to both of their amusement. Both the locket and the pearl become precious items to Katniss which she keeps by her side at all times.

Peeta is eventually separated from Katniss, and is captured by the Capitol while Katniss is taken by the rebels. In Mockingjay, Peeta is gone for a portion of the beginning until about halfway through the book, in which he is only shown being interviewed.

Shortly after the last interview, he advises Katniss to not trust the rebels. Peeta is tortured and beaten by the Capitol as a means of breaking and affecting Katniss. He returns after Gale rescues him, but has had his memories tampered with—or hijacked. While he is hijacked, he is driven to kill Katniss, but through the help of Delly Cartwright, Haymitch, and the doctors in District 13, Peeta is able to maintain his sanity.

Later, while in the Star Squad, Katniss plays a game with Peeta called "Real or not real," and Katniss helps Peeta recover and remember his deep love for her.

Peeta eventually grew self-aware enough to want to die because of the impulses he had to harm Katniss; on several occasions, he asks her to shoot him, give him nightlock, or just leave him to die. When Peeta was in danger of losing control, Katniss, despite the danger to her life, kissed Peeta, snapping him back into reality, and begged him to "Stay with me", to which he replied "Always".

After Prim died, he went to her house and planted primroses around her house as a memorial to her sister, who died because of the exploding parachutes. Over time, Katniss and Peeta grow back together again, and one night, echoing a "game" that they had played while he was having trouble recovering his memory, Peeta asks Katniss: "You love me. Real or not real? Peeta, to her, was like, "a dandelion in the spring She gives in to the 'hunger' that she feels when she is with him, and after reflects that she believes that "This would have happened anyways" indicating that Katniss finally realized how deep her feelings for Peeta ran.

In the epilogue, Katniss and Peeta have children after 15 years of being together, and they find a meadow to settle down in. Katniss and Peeta are still haunted by the memories of the Games, but find ways to carry on living and cope with their trauma, living in peace with their children.

When Katniss was twelve, she met Gale Hawthorne in the woods. Their fathers had been killed in the same accident and they both provided for their families. Gale nicknamed her Catnip, after mishearing her name. They quickly became hunting partners and they taught each other about their expertise. Gale comes to bid Katniss goodbye before she leaves to compete in the Hunger Games and promises to protect Prim.

Gale unexpectedly kisses Katniss in the woods, revealing his feelings for her. President Snow threatens Katniss that he will kill Gale and his family.

Katniss is unable to say "I love you" back, only admitting she knows he loves her. When Gale exclaims he doesn't want anything made in the Capitol, she believes he's referring to her. Katniss prevents Gale from being whipped after found guilty of poaching, but she gets lashed across the face while doing so.

Whilst Gale is stabilized, Katniss stays with him and kisses him, bringing him back to consciousness. After the Quarter Quell is announced, Katniss distances herself from him, however, feeling uncertain about what she truly feels and not wanting to waste time on 'what-ifs'.

Before leaving, Katniss admits to herself that she loves Gale on some level, albeit in the limited way she can offer. After the Quell, he tells her that District 12 is destroyed but her mother and sister are okay. Gale tries to make Katniss happy as they get closer in District 13 , and they fall into the companionable relationship they had in District However, as Katniss fixates on Peeta's captivity and then later torture, Gale comes to realize that he can only ever gain Katniss's attention when he is in pain.

A rift develops between them in District 2, where Katniss is shocked by Gale's methods in securing the District. Later, as they storm the Capital with the Star Squad, Katniss and Gale fight alongside one another before Gale is captured and Katniss is injured in the firebombing before the Presidential Palace.

While Katniss recovers in the hospital, Gale does not visit. Later, Katniss believes the firebomb that killed Prim and the Capitol children was made by Gale.

Though part of her wants to deny it, she feels she will be unable to ever disassociate that from Gale, and thus lets him go without a word. Katniss reflects in her head if she and Gale would have ever been truly happy together, or if "The dark, twisted sadness between them have grown up even without the Capitol's help," thus indicating that she feels something would have driven them apart eventually regardless of what they did.

Katniss settles back in District 12 with Peeta and is informed that Gale had gone to District 2 to take up an important job. Instead of feeling longing or anger, Katniss is only relieved, believing that Gale would move on like she would and forget about her. Katniss reflects that Gale was full of fire, much like herself, which made him unsuitable as a partner, whereas Peeta was like 'a dandelion in the spring' and that he alone could help her heal and move forward despite the sorrows of her life.

Primrose Everdeen was someone who Katniss loved unconditionally as she was also Katniss's younger sister. When she was younger, Katniss hunted and traded to make life easier for her sister. Katniss got Prim a goat for her birthday. Katniss took out tessera but refused to let Prim do the same. When Prim was reaped, Katniss volunteered in her place but Prim did not want her to. Prim came to say goodbye to Katniss and made her promise to win so she could come home.

When Katniss is in the arena, she sees that Prim and Rue are very alike. As Rue dies, she makes Katniss promise to win the Hunger Games. Katniss remembers her and Prim's promise and tries to win for both of them.

Katniss tries to protect Prim from President Snow and reminds herself she's the reason she must go on. Prim begins giving Katniss advice during Mockingjay.

After Prim is killed in a bombing, Katniss falls into a depressive state and allows herself to waste away, losing the will to live. However, when Prim's cat Buttercup whom Katniss always disliked arrived back in Victor's Village searching for her, Katniss snapped in anger and was able to release her grief over Prim's death, allowing her to heal and move on with her life.

Peeta brings Katniss evening primroses and plants them around her house in memory of Prim. Katniss' relationship with her mother is very complicated. After her husband died in a mining accident, her mother became mentally comatose for months, not even stirring herself to feed or support her daughters.

As a result, Katniss essentially took over as head of the family, who would have starved without her hunting and signing up for tesserae rations. While there wasn't outright hatred between them, Katniss never completely forgave her mother for her weakness. After she volunteered as tribute in Prim's place, Katniss harshly reminded her mother that whatever happened in the arena, she could not check out again and leave Prim on her own.

Following her victory in the 74th Hunger Games, the relationship between them improved; Katniss began to be less harsh with her mother, as well as see things from her mother's point of view. After Ms.

Everdeen was able to save Gale following his flogging, Katniss grew to appreciate her mother's healing skills in a new way. When the Third Quarter Quell was announced, and it was obvious that Katniss would be reaped again, Ms.

Everdeen helped her and Peeta prepare for the games, putting them on a special diet to gain strength and weight. Katniss and Madge were often paired together in school due to having no one else. Before Katniss leaves for the Games, Madge gives her a pin with a mockingjay on it, belonging to her and originally her aunt, Maysilee Donner who was killed in the 50th Hunger Games, to remind her of home.

By Catching Fire, they become close friends. Katniss teaches Madge how to shoot arrows while Madge plays piano in return. Madge dies when District 12 is bombed and Katniss shows deep sadness over her death. The only reason at first that Haymitch decided to help Peeta and Katniss was because he finally got a pair of fighters that year since both assault him after he doesn't attempt to help them. Both didn't like each other at first, especially during Training when Haymitch says that Katniss has the personality of a dead slug, but in the arena, Peeta says that Haymitch and Katniss only hate each other because they're so alike.

To add, Haymitch decides to help Katniss out over Peeta because of the fact that Peeta was already determined to help Katniss out. Throughout the 74th Games, Haymitch sends or doesn't supplies to Katniss to inform her about something happening or send her a message. Haymitch and Katniss both get drunk after the reading of the card, which results in Peeta dumping all the alcohol down the drain.

Katniss defends Haymitch, saying that she'll get some back. At the end of the Games, Haymitch explains what he was trying to do in the arena and tells her that Peeta was captured, and Katniss scratches his face with anger. Haymitch continues to mentor Katniss despite the end of the Games. After Peeta's captured, Katniss rejects Haymitch because she blames him for his capture.

When Katniss rips her earpiece out, Haymitch scolds her and threatens her to have an implant instead, but in a large contrast, Katniss also goes to Haymitch for comfort. Katniss could not say that Thirteen was well and her too, so she starts to cry, knowing that she'll be hurting Peeta even more, so she turns to Haymitch because she knows he loves Peeta too. She sobs into his shirt, crying about Peeta and the rebellion while he holds her, saying that he understands just before she is knocked out.

Haymitch also tries to protect Katniss from knowing Gale left to rescue Peeta the next day. Katniss tries to talk to him about Prim's death too, but accidentally rejects her because of his drunken state. To instill peace, the Capitol created a Treaty of Treason. Seven decades later, a young Katniss would bring the end of the Hunger Games altogether.

When Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Katniss, the actress was years-old. This was older than the character that she was portraying, but there was a sense of maturity needed for the role. That said, here's how old Katniss was supposed to be in each film of the Hunger Games franchise.

When the events of the first film began, Katniss was just a year-old teenager living in District She was said to have been born on May 8, 58 ATT. That year, the Capitol was set to hold the 74th Hunger Games in Panem's history. Seeing as tributes from each district ranged from age 12 to 18, Katniss was one of the older participants.

In the epilogue she was 35 years old. Feb 12, PM. I believe she was 16 in the first novel and 17 in the last two Katniss was 16 at the beginning of The Hunger Games series. Quoted: "So now, at the age of sixteen, my name will be in the reaping twenty times. Feb 15, AM. She was 16 at the beginning and then in the last part of Mockingjay she was probably ? Feb 17, AM. Feb 17, PM. Themes Motifs Symbols. Important Quotes Explained. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics.

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