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What happened to Gale Hawthorne in the 'Hunger Games' series, and the place did all of it go incorrect in his relationship with Katniss Everdeen?

Spoiler alert: This article accommodates spoilers for the Hunger Games series.

You could name it a "love triangle," but Katniss Everdeen's individual relationships with Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne in the Hunger Games series had been so much more than that. In the young characters' increasingly more dangerous and unsteady international, the stakes have been at all times so top. And in the finish, Katniss's choices stemmed from unthinkable tragedy.

But what exactly happened with Gale? And where did all of it move flawed for him and Katniss?

Below, we take a look again at the divisive character's journey in Suzanne Collins's definitive YA trilogy.

What happened to Gale in the 'Hunger Games' series?

At the get started of the series, youngsters Katniss and Gale are buddies who live in the Seam, which is the poorest part of District 12. Their dads both died in the same mining coincidence, and Katniss and Gale had been taking care of their own families in the aftermath. To supply for their hungry loved ones, they hunt illegally in the woodland subsequent to the Seam. Katniss admits that Gale's "the only person with whom I can be myself."

Things are so bleak for Gale that — like Katniss — he is had to apply multiple instances for tessera (i.e., a year's worth of oil and grain for one particular person in exchange for including your name an extra time to the reaping system). Still, even if Gale's name has been added Forty two instances to Katniss's 20 times, it is Katniss's little sister Prim (whose identify has only been added once) who will get referred to as at the reaping, along Peeta.

Katniss finally ends up volunteering as tribute in Prim's place, and Gale instantly springs into motion to be careful for Katniss's mother and sister whilst she's long past. Before Katniss is taken away to begin her journey into the Games, Gale advises her to in finding or make a bow and reminds her that she's the best possible hunter he is aware of. When he insists that she is aware of how to kill, Katniss issues out that she's by no means killed other people. Gale then asks: "How different can it be, really?"

She remembers these precise words later when she's in the thick of the Games and has killed a boy from District 1.

She thinks to herself: "Amazingly similar in execution. A bow pulled, an arrow shot. Entirely different in the aftermath. I killed a boy whose name I don't even know. Somewhere his family is weeping for him. His friends call for my blood. Maybe he had a girlfriend who really believed he would come back."

This seems to foreshadow Gale and Katniss's fundamental differences that can ultimately become their undoing.

Gale, who fervently hates the Capitol and ultimately dedicates himself absolutely to the revolt later in the series, all the time goals to play just as grimy as his enemies. ("Beetee and I have been following the same rule book President Snow used when he hijacked Peeta," he tells Katniss at one point.)

Katniss, meanwhile, never forgets the higher image and the innocent individuals who might be killed along the method.

When Gale suggests the rebels blow up the "Nut" — a District 2 mountain in which the Capitol's military is primarily based — it is Katniss who vetoes the plan, no longer wanting blameless people to die.

But in the finish, it was once an order of assault from the rebels that killed Prim in the Capitol. The rebels had ordered two separate parachute bombings. Prim, working as a medic by that time, had rushed into the chaos after the first bombing, to help the wounded. She used to be killed when the 2nd bomb dropped.

Katniss remembers that a part of Gale and Beetee's war plans had targeted "compassion" in just this fashion. Earlier, she had mentally famous considered one of their plans: "A bomb explodes. Time is allowed for people to rush to the aid of the wounded. Then a second, more powerful bomb kills them as well."

In the aftermath of Prim's loss of life, a devastated and depleted Katniss asks Gale: "Was it your bomb?"

He tells her he does not know, however he also is aware of it's not relevant at this point, as a result of she'll never be in a position to forgive him.

Inside, Katniss knows that once it comes to the second her sister used to be killed, she'll "never be able to separate that moment from Gale."

In the book, Katniss learns from Greasy Sae that Gale has moved on to are living in District 2, where he is gotten "some fancy job there." (In the motion pictures, we be informed that he turns into a army captain.)

Katniss knows in the end that she and Gale would by no means have worked. She understands that "what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself."

"What I need," she continues, "is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that."

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