The Hunger Games (Characters)

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Characters in the Hunger Games Saga


In these works of both literary and audiovisual, young adult fiction, there is a variety of characters who navigate in the context of this bleak, dreary world which is actually a sort of dystopic, near-future version of the real world. Most relevantly, and in the position of the main hero characters are the teenaged and young adult Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne and Primrose Everdeen. On the other side of the picture, we find as antagonists president Coriolanus Snow, Cato or Alma Coin. 

Main Characters

 
Katniss Everdeen

As already introduced, the main characters in the series count with Katniss Everdeen, a dweller of one of the poorer and rougher districts in the North American country of Panem, whose main occupation is to take care of his mother and orphaned sister Primrose through hunting and in general providing sustenance for them, until she is confronted with the need to participate in the Hunger Games in place of her sister, as a volunteer. Gale Hawthorne, also an inhabitant of district 12, accompanies Katniss from the start in her quest first to win the Hunger Games and then to overthrow the Capitol regime. As for Peeta Mellark, again like Gale, an inhabitant of disctrict 12, he is the son of a baker who had helped Katniss' family in the past and whose fate leads him to win the 74th Hunger Games with her which also results in them becoming involved with each other for the rest of the series.

Antagonists

 
President Snow 

The series antagonists include, as already mentioned, President Snow, who hailing from the Capitol district takes over the control of Panem and becomes its dictator, arranging the celebration of the Hunger Games and being in command of the military and the Peacekeepers who police all of Panem districts ruthlessly. They also involve, albeit perhaps in lesser roles, Cato, a native of district 2 who is a major rival to Katniss in the 74th Hunger Games, but also Alma Coin, who being the leader of district 13 and an apparent ally to Katniss, is revealed in the end to be a major force of repression towards the people of Panem, even moreso than President Snow.


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