Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen-year-old girl from District 12 who the year before won the Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark after volunteering to be a tribute in her sister's place. Katniss is now wealthy and has a larger, comfortable home, but she continues to sneak beyond the fence of District 12 to hunt wild game. Katniss can still see the hunger and desperation among her old friends and neighbors. This causes her a great amount of guilt.

Katniss is about to embark on the Victory Tour for the games when President Snow comes to visit her personally. President Snow tells Katniss that people have seen her actions in the arena, to threaten suicide if she and Peeta are not both allowed to live, as an act of defiance rather than a desperate move for love. This has caused some rumblings of uprisings throughout the districts. The president wants Katniss...