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Name required. Katniss did have a choice not to have any partner and she went back to District 12 by herself choosing NOT to have a partner , not looking for anyone but Peeta goes back to her. There are several things worth noting in this. By the end of the trilogy, Katniss is done fighting; this includes fighting against having a relationship with Peeta and later fighting against not having children. She is broken, she has lost everyone she loves, she has undergone significant trauma, and she is done with everything.
So Katniss and Peeta are tied to each other. The inevitability of their coming together as when Katniss says that it would have happened anyway does not entirely support a beautiful or meaningful coming together. Even though through some of the trilogy she tries to fight and change things, she still goes back to her original worldview.
She settled for Peeta. Even up to the end of Mockingjay pre-epilogue she is still having thoughts of Gale when she is back in District I think the feelings and actions you mentioned between Gale and Katniss regarding the bomb are a factor but it is a major cop out. It does save Katniss from having to hurt Gale and as evidenced in the trilogy, Katniss responds to suffering by wanting to end it but is not one to inflict it but it is still weak given how much of a presence SC gave to the Katniss-Peeta-Gale development.
But with Gale gone and Katniss laid low, Peeta thought he might have a chance. So in that sense, yes, it is a realistic ending and the books were leading to that conclusion before Peeta was hijacked.
I think accepting someone into your life is choosing them. Katniss had a choice not to have any partner, which was her original plan. Most of us, when we choose a partner, don't have a couple of men conveniently lined up to pick and choose from.
I think what SC avoided was having Katniss tell Gale that she didn't choose him. Gale took himself out of the picture by avoiding Katniss and telling her that she would always associate him with Prim's death. Katniss silently agrees with him although the difficulty was equally on Gale's side - Katniss would always remind him of what the bomb he designed had done.
It is a cop out in a way, but it did save Katniss from having to hurt Gale. During the course of the trilogy, and even with a speech ready to go, Katniss avoided giving Gale a definite answer. I think it was partly motivated by Katniss not wanting to inflict pain - other people's pain being a cause of distress for Katniss eg.
I wonder if Peeta would have followed Katniss to D12 if had known that Gale was still in the picture. Peeta's confidence that Katniss would still want him would probably have been very low at that point and perhaps he would have seen himself as no rival for Gale.
If Peeta had agreed with Gale's assessment of Katniss as choosing the one she can't survive without, it's likely he didn't think that was himself. So he slips into the nurturing role that had worked before and plants primrose bushes, bakes bread and provides comfort from nightmares.
It's really a repeat of how he wooed Katniss in Catching Fire right down to the memory plant book. Katniss says it would have happened anyway and I think it was leading to that conclusion before Peeta was hijacked.
Why I think it doesn't quite satisfy re. Gale is that it's an anti-climax. But I found that realistic. Hi brutishspoon, thank you for your response and for taking the time to read my hub! Before Prim died, Katniss' feeling focus and feeling development was on Peeta and so everything pointed to the fact that she chose or was going to choose Peeta or that there was no choice to be made since it was clearly Peeta but Peeta and Gale were still in the story up until Prim's death as possible paths for Katniss and as an unresolved argument to be addressed by Katniss.
By removing Gale from the story, the unresolved argument is not addressed by Katniss as would be supported by a choice or decision as Gale and Peeta do not live in Katniss' internal dialogue but in the outside world where people have to talk to each other but rather is addressed by Collins, even if Peeta was the better choice.
Prim's death makes Katniss' choice easier because she and her dialogue were focused on Peeta and because she never has to vocalize her choice and she never has to address the argument. She did make a choice, it was just made easier for her with the death of her sister. And as it says in the book Peeta is the better choice but I would have loved Katniss to get with Gale.
Party Games. He's depleted, thin and hurt. That alone is hard to see. He chokes her, and if it weren't for someone else knocking him out, he would've killed Katniss. Katniss doesn't seem to be able to make up her mind. She seems to first prefer Gale. Then she's on equal footing with both.
Then she swings to Peeta. And then back to Gale. This movie and book series keep the familiar love triangle alive and well, but this wasn't the best treatment to either Gale and Peeta. In the book, Gale confides to Peeta that he wished he had volunteered as tribute to do the games with her instead.
They go back and forth about who Katniss loves more. In the end, Gale says, "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. After they rescue Peeta from the Capitol, they realize that he has been programmed to hurt Katniss. Sending Prim in to learn more, Peeta yells accusations about Katniss. He blames her for his parents' deaths, for the demise of District 12, and then he calls her a monster. Peeta tells Prim that Katniss will destroy them all, and that she needs to be killed.
While Peeta said all of this under the influence of the conditioning, the words are still painful, and they seem to hurt Katniss more than being choked. It could be because Katniss does blame herself, and Peeta is able to pick up on that, making her feel even worse than she already does. Heather Frankland is a writer, teacher, and public health advocate. She has had creative work published in literary journals and online websites. She enjoys analyzing her favorite shows and movies and is happy to exercise that talent at Screen Rant, previously exercised in long conversations over beer with friends.
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