When Gale is whipped, along with Katniss having an injury from blocking a lash of it, Prim and her mother treat Gale and Katniss's injuries. When Katniss is about to give up and let things happen with Snow in control, she thinks of Prim which gives her the strength to go on.
Katniss kept her mother and Prim out of her issues between her and Snow. Prim was one of the people President Snow threatened to kill if Katniss didn't prove that she was insanely in love with Peeta and that the suicide threat was an act of love and not rebellion. Prim continued to go to school and lived in her new house in the Victor's Village with her mother and Katniss. Prim is a more prominent character in the sequel, helping her mother with patients and keeping off the Capitol's toes. Prim being held back, yelling for Katniss.
She is seen sitting on Gale's shoulders when Katniss comes back to District 12 with Peeta, happy to see her sister safely returned. In the film Katniss gives Prim the mockingjay pin she got from Madge, the mayor's daughter, but when Katniss volunteers for the Games Prim gives it back to her for good luck. With some help from Peeta Mellark, her fellow District 12 tribute, and Rue, a twelve year old District 11 female tribute, she accomplishes this goal. Prim watched the Games with her mother and hoped Katniss would survive. In the hour of farewells before traveling to the Capitol, Prim makes Katniss promise to win the Games and return home safely. Prim tried to stop Katniss, but Gale Hawthorne held her back and carried her away as she yelled "No, Katniss! No! You can't go!". She had not allowed Prim to take any tesserae and did everything she could to prevent Prim from being thrown into the 74th Hunger Games, as she knew her little sister would not have lasted long in the competition, but in the end, she was reaped. The only other known event of her early life was mentioned in Mockingjay, as Katniss recalls when her father was singing " The Hanging Tree" in their house when Prim was only a toddler as she watched Katniss make rope necklaces.Īt the reaping in The Hunger Games, it was Prim's name that was originally pulled out of the girls' reaping bowl, but Katniss volunteered to take Prim's place, to Prim's horror. She explains that when alarms sounded in their school after the mining incident occurred, she went to Prim's classroom and found her waiting for her. Katniss noted that she never appeared to be fazed by wounds or nudity, even though she was "scared of her own shadow".ĭuring Mockingjay, Katniss describes the day of her father's death. Prim was also a good healer at an early age, often helping her mother with patients.
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Because of her love for animals, when Katniss once took her out in the woods beyond District 12 to teach her how to hunt and after successfully shooting a creature, Prim broke down in tears and wanted to help the dying animal. She saved a stray cat (whom Katniss tried to drown the second Prim brought him home) and named him Buttercup, insisting his muddy yellow coat matched the bright flower. She was born on May 11th, and it is obvious from the beginning that Prim loves all living creatures. Not much is known about Prim's early life, but she is described as a compassionate young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. During the war, she would work with her mother in the hospital and then go out to help the injured in the midst of battle. Later, after Katniss escaped from the Quarter Quell, she turned out to be a very skilled doctor while living in District 13. Other than her animals, Prim also had household chores and helped to take care of patients that people brought to her mother, the local healer. The sustenance provided by the goat helped Prim and her family to survive in the poor region of District 12 called the Seam. The goat could easily have died, making the spent money a waste, but Prim and her mother healed it with home remedies.Īlthough Katniss was unsure if the goat would survive, Prim loved animals and was soon able to heal Lady with her mother's help.
Having so much money, they first thought to get Prim a hairbrush or cloth for a dress, but decided instead to buy a goat that had been injured. Katniss, her older sister, bought the goat and gave it to Prim on her tenth birthday after having shot and sold a young buck in the woods with Gale Hawthorne. Prim has a goat named Lady who provided milk and cheese.
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