Courage

"My allotted time for speaking has come and gone, but I must say something. I owe to much. And even if I had pledged all my winnings to the families, it would not excuse my silence today. 'Wait, please.' I dont know how to start, but once I do, the words rush from my lips as if they've been forming in the back of my mind for a long time" (Collins 60).

Courage is a quality or power of a person(s) being that allows them to face difficulty, danger or fear.

Courage is being used by the main character Kaitness who is the winner of the Hunger Games. Through both books she has shown a considerable amount of courage and this quote says no different. As she travels from districe to district she is told what to say. Coming into rue's district someone she was allied with in the Hunger Games this is different. She feels like she must put her foot forward and say what she needs to say and not what she is being told to say. So Kaitness needs courage to do so. In the first book as well she took her sisters spot to join the Hunger Games this as well too courage from Kaitness. She is a women who know what she has to do and does it whether it is the right or wrong thing to do. In the defintion above it says the person(s) courage allows them to face difficulty, danger or fear. Kaitness is facing all three. Difficulity to speak up and say and do what she means and danger or fear because she knows if she does not do as she is told she will be punished or something/someone will cbe close to her. Kaitness is a great character who carries courage with her everywhere she goes.