That he wanted to marry Katniss's mom.
Her singing and beauty
She goes into depression and ignores Prim and Katniss causing Katniss to go hunting to provide for herself and Prim.
"As long as you find yourself, you will never starve."
Although Katniss loves her mother, she feels deeply betrayed by her and cannot trust her because she abandoned them after her father died and left eleven year old Katniss to fend for herself and feed her little sister Prim, who was seven.
in book one katniss's mother promises that she will take care of prim and not leave
Well Peeta's father wanted to marry Katniss' mother, but she loved Katniss' father because "when he sang, the birds stopped to listen."
Her singing and beauty
Prim and Katnisses mother, Gale Hawthorne and Peetas father
He is the Seam's baker, brought Katniss cookies before they left for the Games, and fell in love with Katniss's mother when they were younger
When Peeta and Katniss are on the train, Peeta tell Katniss that before he left, his mother came to see him. These were Peetas words:"My mom said 'shes a fighter, that one.' she is! She meant you!"
Peeta's mother is harsh and cold (she beat up her son when he burned a loaf of bread) while his father is caring and unselfish
She goes into depression and ignores Prim and Katniss causing Katniss to go hunting to provide for herself and Prim.
When Katniss's father died in a mine explosion, her mother was so devastated that she went into a state of "zoning out" where she was completely unresponsive and it left the entire role of caring and providing for the family to Katniss and it made her mad
Peeta's father Madge Gale Katniss's mother Prim.
"As long as you find yourself, you will never starve."
Katniss' mother has depression because of her husband's ( Katniss and Prim's father) died, so she doesn't look after them she is in her own world, so Katniss had to put food on the table for her family, she had to look after all of them.
Although Katniss loves her mother, she feels deeply betrayed by her and cannot trust her because she abandoned them after her father died and left eleven year old Katniss to fend for herself and feed her little sister Prim, who was seven.