Torn

Petta is a character that we haven’t talked much about but he faces some true difficulties in this novel. He has to choose between fighting for his life to go back home or just letting himself die. At the begging of the book when they first got on the train he was sure that he was going to go into the games and not come out alive. Petta had no faith in himself when he should’ve known he could do just as much as Katniss just in different ways. As the book goes on and they are in the tribute center Petta is still dead set that he isn’t going to make it through the games. Where it gets interesting though is when the games starts because somehow he made allies with the top tributes. He probably thought that they would just kill him and he wanted it over with but they didn’t. Petta really starts fighting for his life when one of his allies cuts him with a sword. He gets away but has no food or water for no telling how many days. He was hidden very will with mud. Katniss found him in just the right amount of time and he starting fighting even harder because two tributes from the same district could both be the victors of the games and he knew with Katniss helping him they could win. Which they did after they almost killed each other with berries but he over came the fear of dying and trying to accept it.  257