Katniss is a person who does not like to take orders from anyone. She is very defiant towards the Capitol and any other authority figure in the novels. She breaks many of the rules set down by the Capitol. When she is at home in District 12, she leaves the fenced in area almost every day to go hunting for food for her family and to sell at the hob, the black market. Her act of volunteering for her sister, Prim, is also very defiant in nature. It is almost like she is cheating the Capitol of taking her innocent younger sister for use in the arena. When she is displaying her skills for the gamemakers, she notices that they are not paying attention to her, so she shoots an arrow through the apple in the pig’s mouth that the gamemakers are eating. While in the games, she refuses to actively go out and hunt for other tributes. This is an act of defiance in the way that she is not playing by the Capitol’s rules and does everything in her power to not give in to their intentions. Her burial of Rue is another act of defiance towards the Capitol. She does not know it but her burial shows unity between the districts and sparks a riot in Rue’s home district. The final, and most important, act of defiance is at the end of the games when she and Peeta are the only tributes left. The Capitol goes back on their word and says that only one of the two tributes can win. But Katniss is not willing to let the Capitol win and proposes that she and Peeta eat the poisonous berries so that they both die. This would leave the Capitol without a victor. The Capitol is forced to stop them and declare them both victors. This shows weakness on the Capitol’s part Katniss is given the blame for it. She is seen as a threat to the Capitol and Districts know that they are afraid of her. They start to rally behind her and use her as a driving force for revolution.