Sacrifices show a lot about a person, what a person is willing to sacrifice for a person can show their true feelings towards that person. Actions speak louder than words, so showing someone that you love them through sacrifice is a lot better than simply telling them. 

            Katniss sacrifices herself in many ways form the very beginning of the novel. She gives uo herself to make sure that her family always has food, and shelter. She goes hunting and is the head of her home. During her youth she shouldn’t be the one who has to do that, she should be the one receiving food, and enjoying her time as a 16 year old. 

            Although this sacrifice is very important in the novel, the most evident sacrifice in the Hunger Games is when Katniss volunteers to take her yournger sister’s place in the Hunger Games. This could mean that she could lose her life, and never see her family again, but she still sacrifices herself to let her sister go on and live. This shows how deep Katniss’ love for her family. She was willing to give her youth and now possibly her life up for Prim and the rest of her family. 

            Peeta also sacrifices himself in many ways in the book. The first memory Katniss has of Peeta is when he burned the bread and gave them to him. He knew he would get in trouble with his mother, but he did it anyways. Katniss remembers this act of kindness for years after that, and this affects her thoughts during her time spent with Peeta before and during the Hunger games.  During the Hunger games, Peeta gives up his position in the alliance, and joins with Katniss. This could have meant him loosing his life, but he did it anyways.

She and Peeta are also willing to sacrifice themselves for each other when they find out that only one of them can win the hunger games. Neither of them wanted to kill the other, so they decided that they would both die at the same time. Their sacrifice for each other shows how much they really do care about each other, and that they are more willing to die than to kill each other. 

When sacrifrices are made, people see how much they are truly loved or not loved. Most people say I would do anything for you, but when the time comes for them to really make a sacrifice, they actually don’t make the sacrifices that they said they would. 



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