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Heroine

The heroine of this story is Katniss Everdeen, the hunter-girl of District Twelve that is send to the Hunger Games.

Plot Summary

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic word where the former America now is divided into twelve districts and one city called the Capitol. The Capitol is all-powerful, and the districts are there only to serve it. After a rebellion, the Capitol now punishes the districts once a year by an annual fight to the death called the Hunger Games. 

Every district must send two of their teens there, and there can be only one winner in the Games. When her sister is chosen for the games Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her place and together with a boy Peeta Mellark, they get to the Capitol to represent District Twelve, the one that never wins. Katniss leaves her family and her friend Gale behind, but gets to know Peeta in return, who turns out to be very good at getting the crowd (every moment of the Hunger Games is on television) to love them. 

Katniss, being a hunter, is very good at surviving the Hunger Games, but Peeta isn't too bad either. Together, they beat the system of the Games and manage to find a way to both stay alive.

Departure

~Call to Adventure

The call to adventure comes when Katniss' sister's name is called at the reaping, the event that selects the children that need to fight each other to the death at the Hunger Games. 

~Refusal of the Call

She does not refuse this call, though at the beginning of the book she made it clear she does not want to go, after her sister's name is called she has to.

~Supernatural Aid

The supernatural aid in this book is not very supernatural, but there are two that could qualify.  First is Haymitch, a drunk who once won the Hunger Games and is now Katniss and Peeta's mentor. He provides her with a strategy she needs to win. The other helper's name is Cinna and he is the fashion designer that designs the costumes and also gives Katniss advice. Together the two helpers provide her with a solid base of support, which is what Katniss will need. 

~Crossing of the First Threshold

The first threshold is when Katniss enters the train together with Peeta. She then enters the world of the capitol and leaves her District Twelve behind. 

~Belly of the Whale

The belly of the whale, the different world is first the Capitol and then the arena. It is different from her own world because she needs to be on guard at all times. She is on television a lot and needs to worry about what she does and says, and she loses the freedom that was such a large part of her character.

Initiation

~Road of Trials

Katniss' road of trials is long indeed. It starts even before the arena she is put in for the Hunger Games, as before that there is training and live televised interviews where she has to appear. Then she is put in the arena where there are more physical trials... like thirst and fire and people out to kill her.

~Meeting with the Goddess

In Katniss' case the goddess is not a lover, but it is her meeting Rue, the girl contestant from District 11. It does not mimic the love she feels for her mother, but it does remind her of home, as Rue is a lot like her sister, the reason why Katniss is in the arena.

~Woman as Temptress

I cannot think of a temptress in Katniss' story. She is amazingly focused the entire journey.

~Atonement with the Father

The atonement with her father happens, I think, as she sings a song when Rue dies. Before that moment , it is said, she had not sung anything after the death of her father. She also puts flowers around the body of Rue, which results in her being sent a present from District 11. Not the highest power in the arena, perhaps, but it shows that her goal to win the Hunger Games is now shared by a broader group of people than just her own Distict.

~Apotheosis

This may be a bit of a stretch, but I think this also happens after Rue's death. Katniss is waiting in the woods, feeling a bit down, wanting to be found by Cato (her main adversary in the games) to start the final battle (before the others are gone). She has lost her goal. Then when it is announced that two people from the same district can live, she finds her goal again.

~Ultimate Boon

The ultimate boon is surviving the Hunger Games. That is what Katniss works for and what in the end she manages to get.