Haymitch Abernathy Analysis

Haymitch Abernathy is Katniss and Peeta’s mentor for the Hunger Games. While he has already won the Games prior to this, he is still being affected. He is the only victor from District 12 that is still alive. Other than him, there has only been one other

The Hunger Games are meant to dehumanize the tributes, but some break the rules and show compassion for one another. Katniss, Peeta, Thresh, and Rue all show compassion for each other in the Games. When the tributes don't do the right thing, you are just another piece in the Games. If one of the tributes isn't teamed up or doing the right thing, somebody might just go out and kill you.

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While preparing for the Hunger games, Katniss and Peeta meet their mentor Haymitch who gives them advice. At the start of the games, only 11 of the contestants survive and Katniss decides to stay far away from the others to survive as long as she can in the game. This plan fails because the man controlling the game creates a forest fire where Katniss is staying; this forces her to stay closer to the others. She meets up with her partner Peeta who has already made them some allies in the game. The next day Katniss watches one of her allies (Rue) cut down a wasp’s nest, which lands on some of the other contestants, most of them escape but one of them dies from the venom.

In the Hunger Games, one young male and one young female are randomly selected from each District, or town, every year to go into war with one another. Only one of the twenty-four make it back out of the game alive. The mayor announces the chosen ones every year at a ceremony known as the reaping, where he explains the history and purpose of the games. There was a war in the past between the Capitol and the Districts. Since the Capitol won, they hold the Hunger Games in honor of their victory. The story mostly focuses on a specific Hunger Games tribute, Katniss Everdeen, who chose to volunteer for her sister who was originally chosen as tribute. Katniss and District 12’s boy tribute, Peeta, are shipped off to train for the games for a few weeks in order to learn more about how the game is played and how the Capitol actually has a huge hand on who wins depending on their likeability. People who live in the Capitol actually send survival gifts in the games, which is the key to winning.

From each district the each team gets a mentor to give advice for survival, the mentors were former winners of the hunger games, called victors. Haymitch was a hunger games victor, and when Katniss and Peeta first meet Haymitch, he comes across of being an alcoholic and seems like he is not really all that interested in being their mentor. Throughout the novel you can see him change his ways and become more interested in helping them win. He starts giving them practical advice on how to survive during the hunger games as well as teaching them how to gain sponsors.

When hunger games start the tributes (participates) pick up their packages and run. Katniss however, does not pick up her package and run just as Haymitch had advised her. She goes deep into the forest and tries to stay hidden from other tributes for fear that that might kill her. She’s afraid but she was also a skilled survivor so she tries to work on a plan of winning the games. She contemplates the odds of her survival, as an ally she had befriended earlier dries. During this journey she discovers her true self and the battle she was once having within herself changes to resentment towards the Capitol. She realizes that true enemy in the Capital. “Rue was death has to forced me that confront by the own fury against the cruelty. No way is

Katniss has reached the point where she is off to the Capitol. She meets Haymitch and Effie who are her mentors. Haymitch and Effie are her supernatural aid. They are there to help her prepare for the games and to teach her how to win. Haymitch is a previous victor who informs Katniss of what the games are going to be like. Haymitch says that the best advice he has for Katniss is “Stay Alive”. Katniss is trying to get as much information out of Haymitch because she wants to know how to win. Haymitch tries to explain to Katniss that if she wants to win, she needs to get people to like her because that is what will bring her sponsors. Effie is there for moral support and she tries to see the positive in what the games bring. Effie always says “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!”. Effie is there to make sure that Katniss is visually appealing and that she is who everyone wants to be. She wants Katniss to enjoy the time she has left because she may never get to experience anything like it again.

The next mentor in Katniss’ life is Haymitch. At first, we think Haymitch is useless, as he is always drunk, but, as soon as they get to the Capitol, he proves himself. Haymitch is constantly reminding Katniss to “Play the Game” because he has hope that she will be able to appeal to the public and get sponsors, which will be the key to winning. Haymitch is the one who lays out

In the beginning, Katniss is living the hard life of her district. She goes to school and hunts so that her family has food. She has a younger sister named Prim and a mother, however it is time for the reaping which is when the Capitol picks names out of a bucket for one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts to participate in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death tournament where the winner gets fame and fortune. Prim gets chosen to participate in the games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place(22). A boy from their district named Peeta also gets chosen and Katniss realizes that he had given her bread when she didn’t have food for her family. They go to the Capitol and meet their mentor, Haymitch(56), who helps them train, then they go into the arena and battle. Peeta joins up with some Careers, children that trained for the Hunger Games all their lives, and tries to win but then he betrays them. The Gamemakers make a rule change and say that two tributes from the same district can win together so Katniss finds Peeta and helps him because he has been injured. After they are the only two people left the Gamemakers change the rule back to force Katniss and Peeta to fight each other, rather than fight, Katniss takes some poisonous berries, called Nightlock, she found in the arena and gives half of

After a couple of weeks training in the Capitol the games finally started. In the arena of the games, crazy things happen each day because the game maker is trying to killing off the other tributes, as well as Peeta and Katniss. The game maker wasn’t choosing a winner, but making crazy events happen in the arena made it easier for each tribute get closer to each other so they could try to kill one another. During half of the games, the game maker changed the rules just a little bit. Instead of having just one winner, they changed it where there could be two winners as long as they were from

In Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games we see the change of many characters as a result of the circumstances their put into.The Hunger Games is a life changing event that can alter who you are and what you believe in.During the course of the novel Katniss Everdeen the protagonist evolves into a more humane person as she witnesses death and sacrifice.Peeta Mellark the district twelve boy tribute changes when his and Katniss's survival depends on it.Haymitch the drunk district twelve tribute adviser turns his life around when Katniss and Peeta enter his life.Katniss,Peeta and Haymitch all had to endure the life and death situation of The Hunger Games which changed them in significant ways as we see throughout the novel.

The Hunger Games are literally a fight to the death in which each of the 12 districts sends too tributes, one male and one female. Being entered into the Games means either fortune and fame or unavoidable death. Katniss Everdeen volunteered for her little sister Prim when she got chosen. And the male tribute was Peeta Mellark, for district 12. Katniss knew Petta when he trew a piece of bread to her when it was raining.

The silence said one had been chosen for the games. All with the same reaction but It made one freeze in disbelief. An inferno had swept through Katniss’ heart as she howled in horror. Prim was chosen, her external tears had save me all over as she began to make her way to the stage. Katniss knew the games were a fight to the death with only one surviving, but to her, Prim would not compete in a lethal game and she knew that Prim didn’t stand much of a chance compared to those who have trained for The Hunger Games. She realized that she had a better chance of surviving than Prim with her hunting and arching skills and sacrificing herself was the only way she could save Prim’s life.

As described in the book, each pair of Tributes is provided with a mentor who has won the Hunger Games in the past to help with strategy and to put together a game plan. Haymitch Abernathy, who was previously won a Hunger Games is appointed to