"I like to watch his hands as he works, making a blank page bloom with strokes of ink, adding touches of color to our previously black and yellowish book. His face takes on a special look when he concentrates. His usual easy expression is replaced by something more intense and removed that suggests an entire world locked away inside him."
" (...) One afternoon Peeta stops shading a blossom and looks up so suddenly that I start, as though I were caught spying on him, which in a strange way maybe I was. But he only says, “You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”
“Yeah,” I agree. Our whole relationship has been tainted by the Games. Normal was never a part of it. “Nice for a change.” ”
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Another one of the Peeta moments that rot in my brain constantly is the scene in catching fire when Katniss and Finnick get stuck with the Jabberjays.
Peeta had his hands pressed against the force field, trying so so hard to be there for her and wanting so badly to protect her. And when it finally ended he held her, and rocked her, and let her hide her face in his arms, and protected her for as long as she needed him to and…..that’s just so ughhhh….so heartbreakingly sweet.
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There's something so special about the fact that Katniss uses the word 'hunger' to describe her desire for Peeta. She could've said passion, desire, wanting but no she used hunger.
Katniss' prime motivator throughout life has always been food, she's spent hours foraging through the woods to uphold herself and her family members. Her thoughts have always been food concentric and you can see her obsessing in the first book, going into excruciating detail even when unnecessary.
A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake.
That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig. My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table. I hear
shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the
apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it.
I always find this paragraph so interesting, that out of everything Collins could've chosen to upstage Katniss, she chose food as her competition.
Even in the games Haymitch has to bribe Katniss with food to stimulate her romance. That being said food/hunger is a heavy recurring theme in the books and Katniss has always been drawn by hunger on instinct.
So kissing Peeta for her is instinct, it it something that pulls at her. Something she cannot live with out, because without it she shall starve.
I think this also goes back to her first interaction with Peeta which is again associated with food ( burnt bread), I find this scene a literal parallel to her 'starving' without him to the beach scene.
when I saw the dandelion and I knew hope wasn’t lost. I plucked
it carefully and hurried home. I grabbed a bucket and Prim’s
hand and headed to the Meadow and yes, it was dotted with the
golden-headed weeds. After we’d harvested those, we scrounged
along inside the fence for probably a mile until we’d filled the
bucket with the dandelion greens, stems, and flowers. That night,
we gorged ourselves on dandelion salad and the rest of the
bakery bread.
This scene as well, one of her most important interactions with him is again associated with food/hunger.
So really the word hunger is the perfect fit for what she feels for Peeta, Food brings her hope and happiness, it is a literal and physical metaphorical motivator to keep going. And only Peeta can give her that.
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The idea of Peeta and Katniss slowly becoming more socially disconnected with the people they had to pretend to be before and during the war.
A new generation of kids are born, and maybe they’re taught something of what happened before their time, but maybe they’re too young to have learned about it in school. Or maybe, they just didn’t care too much to remember, maybe they’ve just never seen pictures of The Mockingjay. Or maybe Katniss has outgrown the image of that scared 17-year-old girl.
Whichever way it is, the kids don’t know, and don’t really care. When people come in from across the country, asking where they could meet “The Mockingjay”, the adults ignore them.
When they ask a kid, they just blink. “Who?”
“Katniss Everdeen.” They might try.
These kids have never heard of a Katniss Everdeen. And besides, their parents told them never to talk to weird strangers!! They run away, and go to tell Mrs. Mellark about the weird person they met.
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i'd love to read catching fire from perspective of other people, like finnick, haymitch, johanna, enobaria, plutarch cause yeah, as a reader it's cool to be oblivious just like katniss about rebellion and learning stuff with the mc, but also rereading it I'd love to see how they all joined the rebellion, what they were thinking and how more experienced players were seeing everything (and yes, johanna's reaction to baby bomb is must have)
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I hate when Catching fire set fanfics have Peeta telling Katniss that he double knots his laces, sleeps with his windows whatnot. What's so special about those moments is that Katniss quietly notices them herself and Peeta doesn't realize. Making Peeta say it makes it so forced and unnatural ughuuhuh.
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