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Katniss Everdeen is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Hunger Games trilogy written by American author Suzanne Collins. Her name comes from a plant with edible tubers called Sagittaria, from Sagittarius the Archer, whose name means He that throws arrows in Latin. Katniss's father was a miner and illegal hunter who traded on the black market in District 12. Her mother is a healer, the daughter of the town Apothecary owners. Katniss's younger sister is Primrose, who is four years younger than she is. hen Katniss was a child her father would bring her out into the woods beyond District 12 to teach her how to hunt with a bow and arrow, as well as how to forage for edible plants. He would sometimes bring her to a lake far into the woods where she learned how to swim. It was on one of these lake visits that Mr. Everdeen introduced Katniss to the edible plant she was named after, and told her, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve."
Katniss was close to her father as a child and shared his appreciation for music. He was a good singer, so good that the mockingjays in the woods would stop to listen to him and copy his tunes. At some point, he taught her a song called "The Hanging Tree", a song about a man calling for his lover to meet him in death. When Katniss's mother heard her singing it, she began screaming at her father, telling him that it was dangerous and unsuitable to be heard by small children and could influence them. This was heightened when she saw Katniss and Prim make actual 'necklaces of rope', with the sisters being oblivious to the fact that the song was talking about voluntarily hanging themselves to death. She then banned the song from their home and forbade Katniss to sing it again outside. Although Katniss never sang it in her mothers presence again, she later sang it during the rebellion when she thought of her father. (In the book Mockingjay, where the lyrics are revealed)
