Who Should Katniss choose?
Team Peeta vs Team Gale
You’re insecure
Don’t know what for
You’re turning heads
When you walk through the door
Don’t need make up
To cover up
Being the way that you are is enough
Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but you
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell
You don’t know
You don’t know you’re beautiful
If only you saw what I can see
You’ll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I’m looking at you and I can’t believe
You don’t know
You don’t know you’re beautiful
And that’s what makes you beautiful
(My thoughts of what Peeta might be thinking about Katniss)
So our task was to make up our mind about which
of the both lover-candidates would match the best with Katniss, if it was on us
to decide. Reading the first book of the trilogy I made a clear decision:
TEAM
PEETA!
And here’s why
Peeta makes Katniss a real girl. Before she met
him in the games, she was just an emancipated chick that hunted illegally in
the woods to feed her family and does business on a black market with her best
friend, who’s male, Gale. Her actions made her look like a boyish girl to the
ones that didn’t know her better. The baker son’s confession of love makes her
look like a likable, female and somewhat vulnerable woman.
He seems to see what others overlooked all the
time: the unmeant hidden beauty of her being and her actions. Seems like he’s
the only one who noticed Katniss as who she really is: a girl.
His confession is taking influence on Katniss
development by helping her to gain more self-confidence in what she is and what
she is able to do. Peeta has never given up on his love for ‘the girl on fire’
and in that way he teaches her not to give up on what she wants to have back
again: her old life and her family, mainly her sister, in District 12.
What Katniss really does learn from him is to
not accept anything that is done to you or the people you love, even to people
that you don’t know, if it’s morally not right, unfair, terrible or in any way
bad for anyone (or a whole population). With his saying that he doesn’t want to
be just a piece in Panems Games, he sets fire to Katniss injustice-thoughts
about the Capitols government and the Hunger Games. Even if she does not
understand the real meaning of the words in the beginnig, she does when she
becomes aware of the Gamemaker’s cruelty more than ever at Rue’s death. Kids ar
not destined for being killed just for peoples entertainment and Katniss wants
this thing to be over forever so she sets a sign, influenced by Peetas quote,
to show that she’s not accepting what the government is doing namely punishing
kids for things which happened long before they were even born.
Peeta is very important for Katniss because he’s
the only person from District 12 in the arena, the only one who reminds her of
home.
Both have a relation to each other from the
beginning on, at the time they are chosen at the reaping: Peeta of course
because he is in love with this girl, Katniss because she owes her and her
families lifes to him, because of the fact that Peeta gave her bread when she
was about to starve. He gave her new hope when nobody else was able to, being
in charge of her sight of the dandelion who brought new life to the little
girl.
He does what Gale never will be able to do in that kind of way: he
saves her life (not only once) in the arena, protecting the girl he loves by
building an ally with the Careers, knowing she would hate him for doing that.
He does it for making sure that none of the ones being part of the ally will
kill Katniss and that he will be there to protect her from them when it comes
to a fight.
While, at the beginning, Katniss is feeling
nothing but to be in Peeta’s debt, her feelings change over time. She begins to
trust him while they are living together in the Capitol, feels betrayed when he
is bulding an ally with the careers in the arena, what seems that there has
been some kind of friendship between them. Than she becomes aware that she can
win with him as a team, when the rule change is announced. The fact that she
really cares about Peetas health when she finds him covered and injured in the
woods shows that she has some kind of feelings for him, but she does not know
what kind of herself. Risking her own life by going to the feast at the
cornucopia to get the medicine for him, it becomes apparent that there is a
deeper relation between the ‘star-crossed lovers’ than Katniss would ever
admit.
In my opinion Katniss should choose Peeta
because he’s the one she could always count on in her life. He is there for her
all the time in the arena, keeping her grounded. Even if she has never payed
attention to him until the reaping, he still sticks by her whatever horror they
have to face.
For though there are so much reasons for Katniss to choose Gale (knows
her for years, takes care of her family while she’s away, hunts with her in the
woods,…), Peeta is the one who’s been there when nobody else was, taking care
of HER. So she should keep Gale as best friend or a kind of brother and take
the bakers son as boyfriend.
I'm very interested in hearing your opinion of who Katniss should choose and why. Just leave your comment! :-)
Thats what Peeta could say:
"Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book, just turn the page."
(Unknown)