Summary. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark's relationship became a central and engaging plotline throughout the Hunger Games franchise. While Peeta's feelings for Katniss were always clear, it's harder to pinpoint when Katniss began to feel the same way about him.
Katniss's focus on survival and her family's safety prevented her from fully considering romance, but her feelings for Peeta and Gale diverged in the end. Katniss ultimately chose Peeta because he understood her trauma and she didn't want to lose him, proving her love for him.
The male tribute from District 12, Peeta is in love with Katniss and becomes her main ally and romantic interest during the Games. Peeta is best characterized by his love for Katniss and willingness to sacrifice himself for her.
The relationship between Gale and Prim takes a morbid turn when the bomb that killed Prim resembles the ones Gale designed, raising suspicions of his involvement.
Answer and Explanation: Gale does not marry anyone in The Hunger Games. He and Katniss talk about running away together and starting a new life in the wilderness, but they never officially marry.
The Hunger Games: What’s Peeta's Purpose Besides a Love Interest
Why did Katniss hate Gale in the end?
His snarky comments about Peeta Mellark — the other boy vying for Katniss' affection — and his quick acceptance of the brutality of war make him a dangerous and even unlikable character at times. Katniss ends up with Peeta in the end, likely because of Gale's bad attitude and apparent disregard for human life.
Shockingly, Gale and Katniss part ways in Mockingjay: Part 2, and Katniss goes on to find happiness with Peeta. Whilst Katniss and Peeta both receive satisfying conclusions in the Hunger Games' epilogue, Gale's fate is largely obscured, leaving fans questioning what happened to Gale after President Snow's downfall.
Spotting another slew of parachutes, Katniss calls out to her sister, but she's too late; Prim becomes a casualty of a second wave of explosions, with "Katniss" the last word on her lips.
She was only 13 years old when she was killed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, and her youth only makes the tragedy that much harder for Katniss to bear after everything else she had suffered. Prim's death is a truly heartbreaking moment.
Gale didn't mean for his bombs to murder innocent children but that doesn't matter because he was willing to do anything to win the war and the includes the mass murder of children. It's important that Gale's bombs killed Prim because it shows that there are consequences to praying on human kindness.
Snow's knowledge of Katniss and Gale's kiss confirms what Katniss has felt since she returned home: She is a prisoner of the Capitol, unable to escape the terrifying realities of her victory in the Games.
In the end, it is Gale's conviction in the necessity of sacrifice pitted against Katniss' moral incoherence that truly severs any relationship they had or could ever have. Primrose, Katniss' sister, is killed by a firebomb that may have been designed by Gale.
Peeta clearly loved her, however, and Katniss was obliged to play up their fictional "romance" to earn sympathy and sponsors for the Games. However, something happened during the Games themselves to change the nature of their relationship.
The two don't have sex on screen. It's only implied that they get it on via snuggling and other affectionate acts in close quarters — but if you have read the book, they really imply that they took their relationship to the next level. Plus, in the epilogue, they have two kids.
Gale and Katniss' kiss is representative of the ongoing struggle between them, including their trying to reconcile their past with their present. Gale remembers that the last time Katniss kissed him was after he'd been lashed by a Peacekeeper.
Katniss, meanwhile, is four years older and very protective of Prim, and so without hesitation she volunteers to take her sister's place. Moreover, she has years of experience hunting (and therefore killing) and is far less sensitive than her sister, making her more likely to survive the ordeal of the Games.
In the epilogue, after fifteen years of marriage to Peeta and the gradual rebirth of District Twelve, Katniss finally agreed to have children, and they had two - first a girl with Katniss' black hair and Peeta's blue eyes, followed several years later by a boy with Peeta's blonde hair and Katniss' gray eyes.
Despite being demented and megalomaniacal, Snow is also honest, and clings to his agreement with Katniss that they do not lie to one another, even if she doesn't. This also leads him to laugh mockingly when he is being executed, entertained by the sheer irony of the situation.
Katniss saw that Coin was already showing signs of being as ruthless as Snow, which could be dangerous for the future of Panem. Coin was willing to sacrifice children to turn the Capitol against Snow and make herself look like the hero who swooped in to save Panem.
Although he ended up killed by the crowd it wasn't Katniss who ended his life in the execution scene despite that she said over and over that she would kill him. Instead, she ended up killing President Coin and Snow had nothing left to do but laugh as if he won the battle.
Answer and Explanation: At the end of Mockingjay, Gale relocates to District 2 and begins working in the district's government. He helps train replacements for the Capitol's Peacekeepers. By this point, he knows that he and Katniss will never be together.
While there's some chemistry between the two throughout the series, nothing ever comes of the tension in Suzanne Collins's novels. Beyond the kiss, nothing happened between the two in the movies either.
