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Katniss’s mother

Katniss’s mother is a secondary character in the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. She has two daughters, Katniss and Prim, and her husband was killed in a mining accident. She lives in the Seam, the poor part of District 12 and works as a healer. 

Katniss’s mother has light hair and blue eyes and is described as having once been a very beautiful woman, though she now looks “worn” and “beaten-down” (Chapter 1, 0%). Her parents were merchants and ran an apothecary.

After her husband died, Katniss’s mother became deeply depressed and unable to get out of bed and care for her family, leaving Katniss to try and keep her family alive. Since recovering, Katniss’s mother seems to be regretting not being there for her daughters in the past. 

However, she also insists that she needed adequate treatment for her mental health, which at the time she did not receive, and that her behavior was no...