Acknowledgments  First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Zhang, both for her intellectual guidance and for her warm and constant encouragement during the process of writing this thesis. With patience and prudence, she labored through drafts of this thesis and pointed out defects in my theorizing. Therefore, I owe all the merits in this thesis, if any, to her, though I am fully aware that the thesis might still contain some mistakes, for which I bear the whole responsibility.  37505
My cordial and sincere thanks go to all the teachers in the Foreign Language Department. Their interesting and informative courses have benefited me a lot during my college years. The profit that I gained from their profound knowledge, remarkable expertise and intellectual ingenuity will be of everlasting significance to my future life and career.
I am also very grateful to my classmates, who have given me a lot of help and courage during my stay in the University and throughout the process of writing this thesis.  
Last but not the least; big thanks go to my family who has shared with me my worries, frustrations, and hopefully my ultimate happiness in eventually finishing this thesis.
Abstract
The Hunger Games Trilogy written by Suzanne Collins has received worldwide popularity as a youth novel. Katniss, the protagonist, is portrayed as a 16 year old adolescent who participated twice in the hunger games and later became a symbol of rebellion against the Capitol. Katniss’ personality has been developed and shaped by the environment she encounters, particularly the social environment she involved in. This paper analyzes the environmental influence on Katniss personality by first, giving an introductory overview of the novel, a background study of dystopian literature and related ideas concerning social determinism; then an in-depth assessment of Katniss’s personality was given by examining how Katniss’s personality is formed in the living environment around her before the games and from the both 74th and the 75 Hunger games to the appearance of District 13; last but not least this paper studies the social background of Panem in general so as to provide a macroscopic concept of how society lay their influences on ordinary people.
Key Words: Katniss, personality, hunger games, environment
摘要作为美国青少年畅销小说书作家，苏珊•柯林斯，她撰写的《饥饿游戏三部曲》受到了极大的欢迎。小说的女主人公凯特尼斯在书中被刻画为一位16岁的青年，她先后两次参加了饥饿游戏，后又被十三区的反叛者利用，成为对抗凯匹特的象征。凯特尼斯的性格随她周围环境的塑造和影响下不断发展变化，尤其是来自社会环境的影响。本论文分别对凯特尼斯所经历的环境以及由于这些环境所塑造的性格进行叙述和总结：论文首先对小说进行了简要概述，介绍了反乌托邦文学的相关背景研究以及社会决定论的相关理论基础。接着从生活环境，战场环境，以及第十三区的出现三个方面详细分析了环境对凯特尼斯的性格塑造。最后从宏观上分析了帕纳姆王国整个社会大环境对人们性格的影响。
毕业论文关键词：凯特尼斯，性格，饥饿游戏，环境
 CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.i
Abstractii
摘要.iii
1 Introduction    1
2 Description of the Background Knowledge involved in The Hunger Games Trilogy    3
2.1 Theoretical Background of Social Determinism    3
2.2 Theoretical Background of Dystopian Literature    4
3 Analysis of the Environmental Influence of Her Living Environment on Katniss’s Personality    6
3.1 District 12    6
3.2 Katniss’ family    7
4 Analysis of the Environmental Influence of the Hunger Games on Katniss’s Personality    9 《饥饿游戏三部曲》中环境因素对凯特尼斯性格的塑造:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_36267.html