In the third installment, she is caught in a love triangle with Gale (her childhood friend) and Peeta. She destroys the force field containing the Games arena and is rescued along with a few surviving tributes by members of an underground rebellion organized by the supposedly destroyed District 13. While in the games, Katniss begins to realize her feelings for Peeta. In the second installment Catching Fire, she is forced to fight in the next year's Hunger Games, an especially brutal edition known as the Quarter Quell which occurs every 25 years. When the Gamemakers renege on a promise to let two surviving tributes from the same district live, she defies and embarrasses the government by threatening a double suicide with Peeta, becoming the personal enemy of Panem's leader, President Coriolanus Snow. To survive, Katniss "pretends" she loves him. Katniss survives the game along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark, who is in love with her. When Prim is "reaped" (chosen by lottery) as a "tribute" who must fight twenty-three other tributes to the death in the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place. Her favorite color is green, (as she told Peeta when he offered friendship to her) because of her familiarity with the forest. Her father's death in a mining accident several years ago left her mother deeply depressed, forcing Katniss to become the mother figure and to use the hunting skills taught by her father to feed the family. She was named for an aquatic plant with edible underwater tubers by her father, who jokingly said that “If you can find yourself, you’ll never be hungry.” She lives with her mother and younger sister, Primrose Everdeen (nicknamed "Prim"). She has long dark hair (hers is usually tied up in a braid), olive skin, and gray eyes, which are given as a characteristic of residents of the coal mining region of District 12 known as "the Seam". She is 16 years old at the beginning of the first book and is quiet, independent, and fierce. The Daily Star splashes on Seamus the Irish wolfhound who will star in the Mall parade tomorrow at the King's coronation.Katniss Everdeen, known as "the girl on fire", is the main protagonist in the Hunger Games. The King is in a "battle" to secure the monarchy's future, the i paper says, and also notes the disastrous day for the Tories. The Guardian has splashed on a "crushing result for Tories" in the local elections, with a picture of Sir Keir Starmer holding a baby - a classic of the election genre. The Sun splashes on an exclusive report that Prince Harry will be seated three rows back at the coronation ceremony in the same line as his cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. The Daily Express also splashes entirely on the King's coronation. The Daily Telegraph relegates the disastrous Tory election results to a NIB at the bottom of the front page. King Charles III will fulfil his destiny when he becomes the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, The Times writes. The Financial Times is one of the few papers whose splash reflects the "crushing" losses suffered by the Conservative Party in the local elections. The Daily Mail leads with an image of the King at his investiture as the Prince of Wales aged 20 in 1969. He will not only wear the crown he will bear the weight of history and the hopes of the nation, that's the Daily Mirror's take on the King's coronation tomorrow. The coronation was scheduled for just two days after the local elections, meaning that King Charles III bumps a disastrous day for the Tories off (most of) the front pages. It's been a huge day in politics, and you'd think that that would dominate the front pages, but it does not. We'll be back on Sunday morning to assess the results in full, and get all the reaction ahead of MPs returning to Westminster next week in the wake of these results. Thanks so much for staying with us for the local elections. With just two councils left to declare, here's where things stand at 11pm: Meanwhile, Labour and the Lib Dems both made huge gains across the country, while the Green Party also surged with some big wins, and majority control of one council. The Tories suffered results worse than their worst case scenario, losing control of councils across the country and losing more than 1,000 seats. It's been a huge day in politics today, with voters across much of England having their say at the ballot box after the chaos in national government in 2022.
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