She begins to see her weaknesses in front of her beloved ones. It is her family that stays with her and helps her release her pressure. The value of family becomes even more important for her after the Capitol announced her return to the Games. Accept any offer of help instead of brushing her mother away as she did out of anger for years. Unlike her indifferent attitude to her mother in the last Games, since she came back from the arena, Katniss has been trying hard to mend her relationship with her mother. Katniss learns to appreciate what it means to have a family to back her up. Family is an important issue during the course of the story. However, in many cases throughout the story, Katniss is pushed beyond her limits and her beliefs are expanded beyond what she thought she was capable of. She knows that she has become the catalyst for the rebellion, but she doesn’t believe she has the unflinching courage needed to direct and to assure the people. This act has fueled uprisings among Districts where discontents have been growing for a long time.

In the most recent Games, the scene of her holding out the poisonous berries, trying to commit suicide with her fellow District 12 tribute, Peeta, has been regarded as an act of rebellion. Katniss is crossing the bridge of self-doubt into courage in Catching Fire. Courage is a defining characteristic for Katniss, but her bravery is not born inherently. Her fears and weaknesses are evidently captured in the story, but at the same time, under the full-scale oppression from the unethical authority, her resolution reveals her as a woman who possesses outstanding bravery. In the second book of Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Katniss is inevitably gripped by a direct death threat from the Capitol.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins