Originally Posted by
Hale
It wasn't so much that she wanted to "be alive" for her sister as she knew the odds were stacked against her to the extreme. She lives in the 12th district which is the poorest, most shat on district of them all, they're all left there to starve and get killed in the mines and they only had one winner of the games, Haymitch, who is a drunk and of no use as a mentor. But Katniss wants to be strong for her sister so she decides she will damn well try her best, if only so her sister tries her best to be strong for her too, back at home. Katniss a fighter by nature anyway.
And yes, I am one of those people that gets emotionally attached to characters LOL.