“Gale Hawthorne is a heartless murder!”
no, he’s actually a radicalized refugee who witnessed the genocide of his district AS A TEENAGER and then had to lead the survivors into the wilderness towards a pipe dream where he desperately and gratefully gave that power to someone he trusted.
Coin graciously allowed him to work alongside Beetee to make plans for her army. Beetee, a nearly sixty year old man, encouraged the team up and worked with a freshly traumatized 18 year old Gale to develop every single plan and weapon.
Coin’s entire scheme served only to further fester Gale’s growing (and justified) animosity towards the people who murdered almost everyone he ever knew.
…only for her to twist his ideas and use them against one of his own people, who he loved, so she could control his childhood best friend. she encouraged his violence for her gain.
Coin’s betrayal towards Gale almost exactly mirrors how Beetee’s ideas for the games where twisted to kill his own son.
Gale was captured and unconscious when the bombs dropped on Prim, Beetee was in the control room where it happened. (No one blames Beetee. i don’t either, the blame belongs to Coin, but it serves to mention.)
people saying Gale is just like Snow are completely losing the plot and MUST have shipping goggles on, because in no way is a victim of genocide comparable to their oppressor.
is Gale faultless? no. Gale had a problem with boundaries (to say the least) and needed intense therapy. instead, he got to watch bombs destroy his entire life.
Gale represents the “ugly” side of surviving that most people do not want to see but people need to start seeing it. there are hundreds of thousands of survivors and victims in real life and some of them are justifiably just as angry and vengeful as Gale.
if you don’t see Palestine in Gale then you are not reading the story as the political commentary it is.
as an aside i think it also bears mentioning that Beetee most likely sees Gale as a son. they share such similarities in mind and they worked so closely. i would love to see fresh talks about that instead of the same tired ship goggles treating gale as a useless part of the plot. the last thing Beetee did with Ampert was plan a bombing and there he was with Gale doing some more bombing plans. the man loves a good explosion fr.
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