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. #Prim meaning how toBecause 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. 7.2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.The kind of girl a group of football hooligans might term Miss Prim and Proper, (a girl who won't go into a Wet T-Shirt competition down at the pub), we might see as a really nice girl. Of course, one has to balance that against who is calling the girl prim and proper. She must maintain what she considers to be a 'lady-like' demeanor at all times. #Prim meaning fullObviously, you will rarely find this stereotype in its full blown manifestation in the modern world but it is certainly a negative evaluation of a person, and still connotes a very staid person who can't take a joke and doesn't really know how to have fun. Think of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Ernest as your common garden variety back in those times. For a girl not to down pints of beer, or be shocked by swearing, may seem 'positive' qualities in the girl but when such a girl is considered 'prim and proper', the image is one of a starchy, formal, unsmiling Sunday School teacher, who thinks fun and play for children should be limited in case they get 'over-excited', and who could never 'let her hair down'. It may have been a virtue, or indeed, de rigueur (=required by etiquette or current fashion) to be 'prim and proper' in Victorian times, but it is far from a positive comment on someone since the flapper age (1920's good-time girls).
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