A Fire of Revolution “There is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour that tyranny cannot enter this land, if the people lose their roughness and his spirit of defiance” (Walt Whitman). In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss is a young girl from District 12, who lives in a society that finds great entertainment in the organized murder of children. These bloodbaths are transformed by the Capitol into an event known as the Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games, children are thrown into a huge arena and forced to fight to the death. Katniss's younger sister, Prim, is chosen to compete in the Hunger Games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place as a tribute. Over the course of the Hunger Games and the events that followed, Katniss goes from impulsive and powerless to a rational revolutionary, who quietly challenges the Capitol and takes a stand for what is right. At the start of the story, Katniss's passive political attitude is the result of years of oppression from the Capitol. In one scene, Katniss is in the middle of the woods and her friend Gale starts complaining about how the Capitol is manipulating them. “His anger seems pointless to me, even if I never say it. It's not that I don't agree with him. I do. But what’s the point of yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn’t change anything” (Collins 14). From here we can see that Katniss has an opinion about the capital, but she finds no point in trying to act on it. Her main goal in life is to provide for her sister Prim and her mother. However, later during the Games, his mindset and attitude completely changed. “It’s the Capitol I hate, for doing this to all of us. Gale's voice is in my head, his rants against the Capitol are no longer useless,...... middle of paper ......e in her are mostly very obvious, especially the changes regarding his level of political engagement. By the end of the book, she is no longer passive in the face of the horrors of the Capitol. Instead, she's taking steps to defy them, to show the Capitol that she doesn't belong with them. We also see a huge difference in the way he approaches things. His initial impulsive tendencies are not as marked towards the end of the story and his ability to make rational decisions has greatly improved. The Hunger Games are responsible for the majority of this change, but her friends also play a crucial role in making her the strong and defiant character she ultimately is. The old is gone, the new has arrived. Katniss is lit by a fire that gives her the strength and determination to challenge the Capitol and make a difference in her broken world, a fire of revolution..