*Contains Spoilers!!!*
Katniss fits the following of the "Christ" criterea
1) She has been tempted by the "devil," and confronted said devil (president Snow): Katniss has been confronted several times in the books by a very prominent and obvious devil figure. President Snow is in control of the country of Panem, and has threatened, tempted, and hurt Katniss, and her family
2) In agony (friends and family killed, home destroyed): President Snow ordered Katniss's home, District 12, to be destroyed, and most of the people Katniss grew up with and loved were killed in this mass destruction of her home.
3) Spent time alone in the wilderness (hunting, hiding out with the resistance): In the first book Katniss spent time in the forbidden woods with Gale, her long-time childhood friend, and often went there for time alone to gather herself and be one with the woods.
4) Last seen in the company of theives (the resistance): Katniss became the figurehead of the Resistance to the Capital, and an unwilling figurehead at that (another feature of a Christ figure), and she was portrayed as the ideal resistance fighter, and she stayed with the resistance, known by everyone in the Capital, who didn't know the real truth about them, as theives.
Even though Katniss doesn't fit every criteria of being Christ, she fits the definition of being a Christ figure very easily.
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