Peeta's CRASH OUT in Catching Fire

[@sofapop653]

I loooved book Peeta! He was so dynamic! It was never a love triangle to me. 😂

[@PyroGothNerd]

Book Gale really never stood a chance.

[@sofapop653]

Right?! I was surprised anyone was ever team Gale!

[@TinyPenguin01]

​@@sofapop653 It's just because movie gale is 🔥🤤

[@SamiR1114]

the way that the hunger games are directly mirroring things as theyre happening in the world today is so. scary

[@michellebenincasa6872]

I agree that Peeta gets upset partly because he sees Katniss and Haynitch keeping info from him as being from a place of judging him to be weaker and less than them, but i don't think it's just internalized judgment of himself. I think it's a trauma response from being abused by his biological family and now feeling echoes of that in his found family. It can be hard to believe that anyone sees your value when the people who are supposed to, like your own mother, undermine it on purpose. Peeta has never felt anyone actually trusted or respected him until Haymitch and Katniss, so the fact that he has to start questioning that now because they are acting this way, it really wrecks him on a deep, visceral level. Since neither one of them seems to response to subtlety, he feels he has to act out to make his point that they must not keep secrets from him. They might think they are protecting him by keeping him out of it, but he's actually in it anyway. The Capitol is torturing him, too, regardless. So not letting him help by giving him all the info he needs to decide the subtleties of the plan they hate is just counterproductive.

[@ItsAsparageese]

That's a really, really good insight. I'm an amateur trauma psych nerd, but I don't relate to Peeta's type of abuse experience and it's not quite in my wheelhouse of types of trauma to study, so I'm guilty of frequently forgetting about that aspect of his character. Now I want to make an active effort to consider it as I keep rereading and analyzing these brilliant books, because goodness knows Collins was thorough and thoughtful with every choice. He's such a good guy that it's so easy for readers to focus on who he is now and not consider the effects on him from his past. You're absolutely right that feeling unvalued would be a totally fitting response in this situation

[@storytimewithyaz]

@@ItsAsparageese if it helps - the whole series shows the effects of narcissistic abuse. On a friendship level (how Gale treats Katniss), parental level (how Peeta was treated by his mom) & a societal level (how Snow ran the dictatorship). Narcissistic abuse is deep psychological abuse & most survivors have the bookmarks we see riddled in the Victors in the series, but very specifically Katniss & Peeta!

[@book_aholic13]

I LOVE PEETA SO MUCH. I love how you're such a strong peeta defender!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷

[@RachelARamras]

he is my book husband

[@book_aholic13]

@@RachelARamras real real real real

[@msk-qp6fn]

I always thought Peeta as the diplomat while Katniss and Haymitch were more of the strategists.

[@storytimewithyaz]

This is where it’s so obvious that Katniss & Haymitch are INFJs and Peeta is an ENFP. Coz he needs the information to express himself in a way that is malleable & acceptable. He understands what he needs to do, but he needs the information to inform his decision making. INFJs & ENFPs both have dominant intuition, but ENFPs share it which is why Peeta is good a public presentation/speeches & why Katniss & Haymitch are better at planning - coz they keep it to themselves. Also we know Peeta’s response in this moment w breaking things is actually not his norm. It is a trauma response. It probably reminds him of how his dad & brothers kept him out of the loop & he’d make a mistake & his mom would abuse him or belittle him while he was growing up. Peeta has always been compassionate - even w Katniss when they were kids. His speech was an extension of that. He’s acting super out of character when he gets mad because of this - this is something you expect and see in both Katniss & Haymitch when they engage in their weakness - extroverted sensing - being IN the real world. Not what you expect of Peeta because he usually just takes it. It shows how much he trusts them that he can even have an outburst like that. It’s maladaptive, but he also recognizes that they won’t change their actions unless he makes a scene. We see it w Katniss shooting the apple out of the pigs mouth & w Haymitch & his drinking. I could literally write a whole dissertation about each characters type & how they interact through it!

[@RachelARamras]

Wow this is such a great analysis!!

[@storytimewithyaz]

@@RachelARamras thanks friend!!! 🙏🏻

[@TarynRMartin]

As an INFP, I find your analysis fascinating.

[@storytimewithyaz]

@@TarynRMartin yessss INFP! If you could type an INFP in the trilogy, who would it be? I think Foxface is probably an INTJ. Maybe Rue?