Gale Hawthorne
Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Katniss's hunting partner and closest friend — tall, dark, furious — who channeled his rage at the Capitol into rebel warfare and weapons design, and lost her in the process.
Also known as: Gale, Gale Hawthorne, Soldier Hawthorne
What They Know
- Expert trapper and hunter — designed snares and deadfalls that translate directly into military applications
- Weapons design for the rebellion — created the double-detonation bomb that targets rescuers
- District 12 survival: mining culture, Seam poverty, the fence schedule, Peacekeeper patrol routes
- Hand-to-hand combat and military tactics learned in District 13's training programs
- The coal mines killed his father — every piece of his anger traces back to the Capitol's exploitation of the districts
- He and Katniss traded at the Hob, the black market in District 12, with Greasy Sae and other regulars
- Led the evacuation of District 12 survivors when the Capitol firebombed it after the Quarter Quell
- Transferred to District 2 military after the war — he got the career, not the girl
Connections
- friend_of — katniss
- rival_of — peeta
- ally_of — beetee
- serves — coin
- member_of — district_12
- commands — boggs
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