Haymitch In The Hunger Games

In the history of cinema, most movies involving a hero 's journey involve mostly the same plot; man gets a call, goes on a journey, gets in a battle or two, and saves the helpless woman from some evil source. The Hunger Games has the same plot as other hero films, but takes a complete turn on the actor encompassing the hero. The hero in this film is a Katniss Everdeen, a poor girl from a dystopian society. In this film Katniss volunteers for her sister to be in the Hunger Games, which is an event where individuals are thrown into an arena where people from twelve districts fight each other to the death for entertainment. Katniss must win the hunger games and make it back to her family. Katniss eventually befriends Peta and they defeat all obstacles and win the Hunger Games together. The Hunger Games is a perfect example of a hero 's journey plot. It follows the steps that any hero journey movie would, including the call, crossing the threshold, a supreme ordeal, companions and mentors, a transformation and the end gift. This film encompasses the classic hero journey plot, with an exception of having a strong female lead instead of male.

Katniss and Peeta have to work even harder to overcome the bias against them and win the hearts of the sponsors and the crowd. Being as poor as they are comes with some benefits and some disadvantages. They have been under fed most of their lives which means they are skinny and weak compared to the other tributes. Living in district 12 also gives them the natural sense of survival. Katniss spends a lot of time hunting to survive which is basically what the hunger games are. Peeta also uses skills from his trade, like his cake decorating, to give him an upper hand in the games. Just like in their everyday lives Katniss and Peeta are spending every waking moment during the games fighting to survive. Because of the social class system set up by the Capitol people are treated very unfairly based on where they were born.

Haymitch Abernathy, the second ever person to win the hungers games from district twelve has been nominated the job of mentoring Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark district twelve tributes. After Haymitch won the hunger games he was left with memories of other tributes being killed and as of this he couldn’t sleep. Being intoxicated was the only way he could keep his mind off things. When Haymitch was elected the job of mentoring Katniss and Peeta there was a problem he was going to have to stop drinking and soba up to be able to properly mentor them. To make everything final all nominees from all districts gather to hopefully not hear there name. When Effie Trinket calls for district twelves mentor Haymitch stands and stumbles up onto the stage, everyone could tell he was

Each year there is one male and one female chosen from each district to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Prime, Katniss, Gale, and Peeta are all from district 12 and when the time comes to pick a participant, Prime, Katniss’s sister is chosen. Katniss then volunteers to take over for her beloved sister, and Peeta is chosen from the boys side. They are then rushed to the capital to start their training for the games. Peeta works at the bakery so he is good at camouflage and throwing heavy things. Katniss if very good at archery and with a bow. Their job is to get sponsors while they are at the capital. When they go in to be evaluated, Katniss shocks the sponsors by shooting an arrow into the apple in a man’s hand when they underestimated her. That earned her a very high evaluation score and more sponsors. Peeta then claims to have a crush on Katniss in hopes of making her look more desirable to get more sponsors as well. While being pitted against tributes that have trained for this for their entire lives, people from the capital and all over are watching the games on a television. Katniss relies on her ability to shoot a bow and knowledge of hunting while hiding from the

Through the main conflict of corrupt government leaders, and cruel games of fighting till the death, they chose different ways of coping. Katniss had a good support system to help her along the way, including Peta, Prim, and Gale; whereas Haymitch had nobody. Their amount of support does have a direct correlation with how they reacted to their trials. Even though everyone responded differently to difficult tests, everyone showed that when people are faced with hard things, worthless things are stripped away, and the true nature of people is brought

Every single day, people make choices, some of these choices make an impact on society, where other choices just fall through the cracks and no one cares or listens. Many choices are made by the protagonists in “Harrison Bergeron”, “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games. However, some of the protagonists make their choices and decisions felt, but others just do not get the main ideas across. “Harrison Bergeron” is the story of a utopian society that has all of their people handicapped to make everybody equal. One person, Harrison Bergeron, is taken to prison as a young boy because he was plotting to overthrow the government, however he breaks out of prison to take over, but gets shot by the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. “The Lottery” is a story of a society that holds an annual lottery to select someone to get stoned to death. In this years lottery people have been talking about how other villages have stopped doing them, but this village’s lottery still goes on, and in the end it ends up costing an average housewife, Tessie Hutchinson, her life. Lastly, The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross, is the story of a utopian society called Panam, that holds an annual Hunger Games, where two children from each district fight to the death to pay for the rebellion and destruction of district thirteen. When selecting the children to represent each district, Katniss volunteers as tribute because her younger sister Prim had gotten selected. The choices that these characters make are hoped to change society, but only one of them successfully changed society.

On page 135 the book had said that “It was my Idea. Says Peeta. Haymitch just helped. You made me look weak. Said Katniss. He made you look desirable. Said Haymitch”. This goes to show that when Peeta said that he had like Katniss he had just said that to turn the tables and hope to get more sponsors. This is a good example to think that Peeta was just playing the audience.

The settings of these two books are different, because The Hunger Games mainly takes place in the arena, and “The Lottery” takes place in a public town spot. In “The Lottery”, there's really no romance, but in The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta are shown to the world as a couple. I think is actually a good tactic when trying to get sponsors and surviving because Peeta does protect Katniss and I believe he really does have feelings for her, as she does for him. Katniss is confused about her feelings for Gale, I think that she probably does care for Gale, but personally I think she cares for Peeta more. Otherwise why would she have risked her life for for him? Like when each district got a pack, and she ended up giving Peeta the sleeping syrup so she could go get the pack so Peeta could survive.

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.

In Katniss and Peeta's team there are three, maybe even six, members: Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna and the three members in his team, and Effie Trinket. Haymitch Abernathy is the previous winner from District 12. Haymitch is the main person who will mentor and train Katniss and Peeta throughout the Game. Effie Trinket says,

In The Hunger Games, there are many significant plots show Katniss and Peeta try hard to overcome many difficulties. To begin, Katniss has a big conflict with Career Tributes who

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

Haymitch is Peeta Katniss mentor because he was once in the Hunger Games and won so he had experience.When they asked Haymitch about what can help them when he said being liked and getting sponsors can help not necessarily win but it can help your district that he's from . I think Peeta wanted to train alone because he wants to tell Haymitch if he could say that he likes Katniss and this would make her more popular and get her sponsors. Peeta wants to be able to play the game separate from Katniss so he can plot behind her back. Later in becomes evident that he just wants to protect her from the other tributes. But Katniss is confused and hurt from Peeta request. I don’t really think it will help him because he making her more popular and

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

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.