In Mockingjay, a teenage girl is overcome with emotions of love, pain, and spite while trying to adapt to a completely different environment. Mockingjay is written in Katniss, the teenage girl’s, point of view. With Katniss telling the story, everything seems to be a do or die situation. However, her struggle is not the only important one.
After being in the hunger games twice, Katniss sees everything as life and death. In district 8, it was sit there and hide while people die, or try to shoot down the Capital’s hover planes against orders. Again, in the Capitol, it was be a good girl and head back to camp, or try to get to President Snow’s mansion so she can finally get her revenge.
If the story was told from Peeta’s point of view, the reader would be able to fully understand how physically and emotionally torturous Peeta’s stay under Snow’s control truly was. Much of the book though would probably be about what was going on in Peeta’s mind, especially during the times when he tried to kill Katniss. Also, the reader would really be able to appreciate what Peeta had to go through to learn to love Katniss again.
Gale’s point of view would be about how he was constantly hurting as he watched Katniss love Peeta and not him. His conflicting emotions would be told as he wanted Katniss to love him, but at the same time wanted her to be happy which meant he wanted her to be with Peeta. This also meant that he wanted Peeta to get better so Katniss would be happy again, but he also wanted Peeta out of the way so he wouldn’t have any “competition”.
No matter who Suzanne Collins picked for the point of view of this story, it would be a story about a struggle. For Peeta, a struggle for sanity. Gale, a struggle for love. Then, of course, there’s Katniss. A struggle for life.
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