Primrose Everdeen

Primrose "Prim" Everdeen is Katniss Everdeen's sister. Very much unlike her older sibling, Prim has a heart full of compassion and for healing.

Early Life
Not much is known about Prim's early life, but we do know bits and pieces that Katniss Everdeen, her sister, tells of in her narration.

It is quite obvious from the beginning that Prim loves all living creatures. Right in the first chapter of The Hunger Games, you met one of her hideous pets. Katniss explains quite convincingly that the cat-named Buttercup- is definitely a creature you would not want to come across on a dark night. When Primrose brought the poor cat home, Katniss tried to drown it right away. Of course, Prim would not hear of it. She refused to let the cat be drowned, and became its faithful guardian throughout the book. It would take only a devout lover of life to care for that thing.

Prim's talent for healing showed quite strong a few years before. It was night, and Prim, Katniss, and their mother where asked to care for a sick relative of another Seam family. The man they where caring for had no hope, and was gruesomely ill and feverish. Katniss admits that the sight of the dying man lying their on the table frightened her, and she ran out of the house to hunt. But Prim faithfully stayed by her mother's side, mixing medicines and potions together, adding herbs to wounds, fervently trying to heal him.

The Hunger Games
Prim is a minor character in The Hunger Games, who mostly appears in Katniss's thoughts and memories.

At the reaping, it was not Katniss' but Prim's name that was pulled out of the tribute bowl. Katniss desperately volunteered for Prim, shoving her behind her and bravely taking to the stage, for she was so shocked and upset by the outcome that she couldn't let Prim go. She had not allowed Prim to take any tesserae and done everything she could to prevent Prim being thrown into the 74th Hunger Games, as would not have lasted long in the competition. In the hour of farewells before travelling to the Capitol, Prim fiercely makes Katniss promise to win the Games and return home.

Catching Fire
Primrose is a more prominent character in this sequel, helping her mother with patients and keeping off the Capitol's toes. She does her best to comfort Katniss when she is reaped for the 75th Hunger Games. When District Twelve is bombed, Gale saves her and her mother.

Mockingjay
Prim is a larger character in Mockingjay than any of the two previous books. She lives in district 13 with her mother, sister, and cat in Compartment E for most of the book. Like before, Katniss is always trying to protect her and Prim finally gets enough, asking Katniss to just tell her the truth. Prim is happy to surprise Katniss by being helpful and strong. Also, she has dreams of becoming a doctor and helps the injured during her time in district 13. She is allowed to go to the Capitol during the final battle as a nurse, which Katniss doesn't know until she sees Prim in the arena with the children being used as a guard. Before Katniss can reach her and bring her to safety, Prim is killed by the double-exploding parachutes dropped by Coin's forces.

Work
Primrose has a goat named Lady and she sells the goat's milk and cheese to help support her family. She also has household chores and helps to take care of patients that people bring to her mother. Katniss refuses to have her take any tessera.

Description
Prim has blonde hair and blue eyes, unlike the majority of the residents of the Seam in District 12, and looks very much like her mother. Katniss takes her appearance more after their father. Needless to say, this makes Primrose stick out in a crowd. She's small, partly due to being under-fed sometimes, but also to her structure.

Personality
Prim shares a love for living things. She loves animals of all kinds, even the ugliest ones. Not only does she have a pet goat that Katniss gave her, but a gruesome, ugly cat she named Buttercup. Missing a eye and with a horrible limp, Prim had brought the wretched creature home, but Katniss intended to drown it. But Prim would not allow it and raised her new pet to health. She has a passion for healing. She doesn't care how gruesome a person looks on the outside, and is will do her best to heal them. She is also very caring and stays at her mother's side with even the most gruesome cases, eventhough she is afraid of her own shadow.

Prim's goat, Lady, was first adopted into her family when Katniss was browsing and trading in the Hob on Prim's birthday. A goat herder had a sick nanny goat, mauled by some sort of animal and the wound swollen with infections, and after much hassling and bargaining, Katniss bought the goat and (boldly) a pink ribbon for its neck. Upon presenting the weak, near-dead nanny to Prim, medical attention was set to it immediately. Eventually, Lady healed well. Though purchasing the goat on a whim, Katniss does not regret her decision, for Lady pays her stay well with goat's milk and cheese.

Family
Primrose is the youngest of the Everdeen family, her sister being Katniss. Her father, Mr. Everdeen, died in a mine explosion four years before, leaving her mother, sister, and herself alone. The three of them live in the Seam with a Lady the nanny goat and Buttercup the cat.