- Peeta’s love for Katniss, how real is it? Or is just a teenage crush? Or did develop into something more during the games
o Peeta admired her, looked up to her because she stood out, was special and different. Pretty voice, a hunter, a fighter, a survivor. I don’t think that is love yet. Peeta’s nature is so mellow and kind, aka “good” in Katniss’s dictionary. It made sense to want to protect her in the games, want her to win. He sees the importance of her survival, to her family and to District 12. Like he said, no one will miss him if he dies. True in the beginning though not so much later on. Maybe it wasn’t out of love that he protected her in the beginning, but what happened in the cave for those two really blossomed into something a lot more. A bond, a special one, shared over imminent call of death
o The way Peeta’s affections were depicted was at times too unclear and a bit forced, or rather static. There were not enough POVs from his side, which is a direct disadvantage of first person narrations. I wish the internal struggles of feelings for Peeta and Gale were more explicitly written. I suppose we can only speculate.
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