description of gale in the hunger games book
List of The Hunger Games characters Gale Hawthorne is a Seam resident boy who is two years older than Katniss, and shares her hunting skill, dark hair, olive skin, and grey eyes. Through hunting they have become best friends. Muscular and handsome, Gale has caught the attention of several girls in District 12. Like Katniss, Gale lives with his mother Hazelle and three younger siblings after his father's death in the same mining accident that killed Katniss' father. Being from the Seam, Gale and Katniss share a slight resemblance which had prompted Peeta to hope they were just cousins. The idea that they are cousins is used by the people of the seam to cover for his close relationship with Katniss so as not to suggest the "starcrossed lovers" storyline with Peeta is staged, as it is presumed her closeness with someone as good looking as Gale would draw suspicion. Though the suggestion that they are cousins effectively satisfies the press from the Capitol, it makes both Katniss and Gale very uncomfortable on several occasions.