Basically, the main reason I like Katniss is because she is a refreshingly realistic, flawed character. She is also rare in another way - Katniss is a well thought-out, well-written female character, rather than just being there to be a pag-ibig intrest for a male hero (this might have somethig to do with the fact that Suzanne Collins herself is female).

The Hunger Games
In the first book, Katniss is motivated sa pamamagitan ng a need to get out of the Hunger Games alive. She manipulates Peeta, kills people, and runs on base instincts. What a madami typical (read: Mary-Sueish) character would have done would probably be very different from this - they would refuse to kill anyone, warn the girl who lit he apoy under the puno to put it out instead of letting the Careers kill her, brood constantly ov er the morality of their acts - and be completely unrealistic. I mean, if you were to be thrown into a kill-or-be-killed competition, survival and killing everyone else would almost certainly become priorities, because you could never go tahanan if there was anyone else left alive.

Catching Fire
Then, in the segundo book, Katniss, unlike your typical hero would be, is NOT motivated sa pamamagitan ng rebelling, at least not at the beginning. She is motivated sa pamamagitan ng keeping herself and her mga kaibigan alive, and who wouldn't be? After that, she is convinced to rebel, but it works because it fits with her personality. Finnally, in the Quater Quell, Katnss finnally makes a madami typical protagoist ilipat - she decides to keep Peeta alive even if it means her dieing. However, here's the catch - it also means all the OTHER tributes dieing. One thing I think is very realistic in Katniss's personality is how personal things are a hundred times madami important then everything else. As in, if she had to chose between her family and a thousand people she doesn't know dieing, she'd chose the thousand people without batting an eyelash. Well, okay, I'm exagerating, but you get what I mean.

Mockingjay
sa pamamagitan ng Mockingjay, Katniss's sanity begins to slip away. Even though some fans aren't happy about it, this is quite realistic and I enjoyed watchig (well, pagbaba about) this happen - it started subtly in Catching apoy and sa pamamagitan ng the end of Mockingjay you can really see how the war has changed her.. Annie Cresta became insane after just one Hunger Games. Katniss has been through a lot more. Despite this, however, Suzanne Collins manages, unlike many other authors where character development is madami like character derailment, not to sacrife Katniss's core personality, keeping her recognisable as the character we were cheering for at the very beginning, rather than alienating her from us. Katniss's fireiness that I pag-ibig is still there, and is what makes up her mind to assassinate Coin.

In the epilogue, it looks like she might actually be finding a way to cope with her life despite everything that has happened to her. Another thing I pag-ibig about her is the way she Will. Not. Give. Up. Suzanne kept that as well. I chose the picture with Katniss and the quote for this part of the artikulo because I think the quote - "I kill Snow" - really sums up Katniss's drive in this book. Yes, I know she shot Coin instead of Snow in the end, but this way both Coin AND Snow died and she knew it. She would never again have had a chance to assaissinate Coin so easily, and sa pamamagitan ng that time she had figured out that Coin and Snow were not so different after all and she didn't want to put Panem out of the hads of one evil president and into those of another. Mockingjay is one of my favourite books sa pamamagitan ng far, though I know the majority of the fans hated it, and one of the reasons for this is how Katniss develops during it.

Thumbs up, Girl on Fire.