Where They Were and Where They Are, Part Hunger Games

(Spoilers for the Hunger Games Trilogy)
So as for our Hunger Games characters, they change at least as much if not more than our Harry Potter characters. Sadly, the end for our Hunger Games characters are slightly more tragic. This might be kind of sad.
Katniss starts out a teenage girl who has no father and has to take care of her family. She only has one friend, Gale, and sometimes Madge tries to be her friend too. She wants to protect the people she loves from the Capitol and the Hunger Games and that's generally all she cares about. By the end Katniss is about as sad as people get. The world around her has pretty much been destroyed and is in the process of being recreated. She has a husband (and she definitely made the right choice) and two cute kids, even though she was afraid to have them. But now that there's no more Hunger Games, she doesn't have to worry about them anymore.
Peeta was reaped and no one cared enough to volunteer for him. He was one of the baker's sons and, according to Katniss, had tons of friends and was a wrestler and made bread and cakes. By the end, he is married to a girl he has been in love with since kindergarten and has two kids that he wanted so badly. Sadly, he still has some of the hijacked images in his mind every once in a while, but in general he was better, he was as back to normal as he can get, and as Katniss said he said, they'll be okay.
Gale was pretty much in the same place as Katniss. His father was dead. He was taking care of his family. His only friend was Katniss, but all the girls were secretly in love with him. He hated the Capitol and the Games almost more than Katniss. He was pretty much as rebellious as they come. What happened to Gale at the end? What we do know is that after the war he went to District Two. Greasy Sae said it was a fancy job. He might even be getting paid a lot. Gale might be living good in District Two. Probably still getting over Katniss. Will Gale ever find someone for him? (Me and my sister say that Gale and Eponine from Les Miserables were made for each other, the rebel who gets friendzoned for a blond person. But who knows.)
Haymitch was dead drunk all the time. He was late to reapings and falling off stages. He was the drunk of District Twelve, and besides being a victor, that was pretty much how people knew him. At the end, he's still drunk, but not drunk to the point of falling around everywhere. He goes back to District Twelve and lives in his home. Katniss even says he raises geese while waiting for liquor to come. Haymitch's life was rough, but it actually did get better in a number of ways.
Prim was a very delicate little girl. She had lost her father and for a time her mother wasn't even there to look after her. So she relied on her sister. And when her name was reaped, I actually think she was pretty brave, just walked up there without a word. By the end of her story, which sadly ends in her death, she changes about as much as Neville from Harry Potter does. She is now strong and is working with other people. She has an important role in the rebellion, until her unfortunate passing. Prim was a great girl.
When we meet Finnick, he appears to be flirting with Katniss, and at least what I got from it is we're not sure that we can trust him. We later learn that Finnick was not flirting with Katniss at all, he was trying to gain her trust so they could be allies so that they could get her out of the Games safely. Sadly, Finnick's story ends in his death too. But before that, he got married, and that's really happy. Sadly, he never got to see his son, because Annie was still pregnant when he died and the baby was born after his death. But he still had a son. Katniss and him were friends. He had a lot of pain in his life, and he did die in the end, but Finnick still gained a few things too.
When we meet Johanna, she's all about messing with everybody. Katniss, the tributes, the Gamemakers, and always the Capitol. That's all she ever does, basically. And she can't stand Katniss. But by the end of the books I actually really liked Katniss and Johanna's friendship, because I think that had grown between them. In the end Johanna does become a morphling addict. But other than that, she's okay. She knew that Katniss had to kill Snow, she had to end it. And when that happened, everything else would fall into place. And it did. We aren't completely sure what happened to Johanna, but in general I think that Johanna was alright.
And Effie. You have to love Effie. Effie started out being the District Twelve escort and doing her job enthusiastically in that magical Effie way, but she really did not want to have her job. She would rather have been the escort for a better district. At the end? We don't really know where she'd been, but she survived. She somehow made it out of all the chaos alive. She led Katniss through her very final victory, killing Snow. (Or at least, she was supposed to kill Snow.) I love how Effie got to be there for Katniss in the end. Does that part make you want to cry or what? Effie's probably living a good life in the Capitol now, but I bet that she's definitely been changed by the war.
Well, guys, be ready! The last part is coming!