Slowly, my mother returned to us. She began to clean and cook and preserve some of the food I brought in for winter. People traded us or paid money for her medical remedies. One day, I heard her singing.
Like mother, like daughter.
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Slowly, my mother returned to us. She began to clean and cook and preserve some of the food I brought in for winter. People traded us or paid money for her medical remedies. One day, I heard her singing.
Like mother, like daughter.
I will never get over how people try and act like mrseverdeen dislikes katniss for skin color, other then the fact katniss looks LIKE HER FATHER. her dead husband. All of you arent forgiven for that. The mistreatment of her is insane
you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it
girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text
romantic relationships blah blah blah okay but what about risking everything for your sibling. what about the unwavering love and care that can only come from a parent to a child. what about someone who just wants their best friend back. ever thought of that.
“okay 💖 yay💖” really changed a generation
this evil version of it is killing me
Maysilee, Asterid, and necklaces
All the descriptions of chemicals and sweet scents and tiny bottles associated with Asterid March, and one of Maysilee's necklaces that she wears in the arena has a heart-shaped glass perfume vial.
When we see Maysilee on the ride to the Capitol, she's "staring out the train window, her fingers entwined in the strands of a half-dozen necklaces." When she's dying in the arena, her wounded hand "curls up and rests in her nest of necklaces."
The heart-shaped apothecary vial necklace. The locket with the picture of her grandmother. The beads she gave Louella. Those half-dozen necklaces she wears to the reaping are how she keeps her dear ones with her in spirit, how she keeps her heart strong and her head high.
Suddenly, my mother snatched the rope necklaces away and was yelling at my father. (MJ, CH 9)
This is where I really got the money for the goat, but I tell Peeta I sold an old silver locket of my mother’s. That can’t hurt anyone. (THG, Ch 20).
I wonder if Asterid snatched those rope necklaces away from her daughters because the association hurt double for her. If she went and searched through her belongings for that old locket even though she knew the real story because it had been a birthday gift from Maysilee.
Because, as she is once again reminded when Peeta gifts Katniss with that medallion, necklaces have always symbolized love.
"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws
Am I making this up or is there a quote from the og hunger games trilogy where Katniss says something to the effect of how she understands how/why her mother shut down after their father died?
I feel like I remember her saying something like that, probably in mockingjay though maybe in catching fire, but I can’t find it.
Maybe it's Catching Fire, Chapter 3, right after her conversation with Snow?
Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting her handle all the money I won. Returning her hugs instead of tolerating them. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn’t help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father’s death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them. Like me, for instance. Right now.
Katniss’ mother moving away from 12 after Mockingjay not only severs Katniss’ chance at rebuilding their relationship but it severs Haymitch’s chance too and that makes me very sad.
I don't know, Haymitch's had friends in other districts for years. Communication between them is probably easier after the war. I suspect that when Katniss initially wasn't answering any of Asterid's letters there at the end, she tried Haymitch too.
Could be she didn't have much luck with him either, though, since he wasn't visiting Katniss (at least for a while) and he'd started drinking again. But I'm sure the letters were piling up on his mantel as well.
I figure he started writing back when the memory book touched on Burdock, or when the geese hatched. (Going by the Buttercup and geese parallels, potentially the latter. Healing Buttercup gave Katniss the motivation to reach out, then the geese did the same thing for Haymitch.)
everyone want a book about Finnick I want a short novel on Burdock's and Asterid love story from their meeting to Primrose birth
Imagine Asterid resenting Haymitch for how he cut everyone he loved off after Lenore dove died, only to understand him when Burdock died.
And if I told you that Asterid and Haymitch understand each other more than anyone else? What then?
YALL WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THE BURDOCK/ASTERID SHIP NAME??? ASTERDOCK??? EVERMARCH??? SOMETHING ELSE???
my vote is for evermarch !!!
me: i'll just resume my The Simpsons binge-watch to get my mind off of SOTR
the very next simpsons episode:
The fact that stress can lead to illness-like symptoms even in the absence of an actual infection is so rude like bro do you know what the new major factor for my stress is now?
me for the next two weeks
Tin Foil Hat Theory #2: Sponsor Gifts from District 12 (74th and 75th Games)
The foundation and first part of this theory is the idea that district sponsors can pay to send in items/goods from home, not just select from a resource list that the Capitol provides.
The burn medicine was most definitely manufactured in the Capitol, so my first example is Katniss's second gift in the 74th Games, the bread:
I open the parachute and find a small loaf of bread. It’s not the fine white Capitol stuff. It’s made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent. Sprinkled with seeds. I flashback to Peeta’s lesson on the various district breads in the Training Center. This bread came from District 11. I cautiously lift the still warm loaf. What must it have cost the people of District 11 who can’t even feed themselves? How many would’ve had to do without to scrape up a coin to put in the collection for this one loaf? It had been meant for Rue, surely. But instead of pulling the gift when she died, they’d authorized Haymitch to give it to me. As a thank-you? Or because, like me, they don’t like to let debts go unpaid? For whatever reason, this is a first. A district gift to a tribute who’s not your own.
Yes, the Capitol dining area had district bread provided for the tributes, but that scene may have just been so Katniss was able to immediately identify which district baked the bread and paid to send it in. Also, it's still warm. Sure, maybe the Capitol has containers to preserve the temperature of the food... or maybe Thresh and Rue were doing well in this arena and correctly identifying the birds, grains, and berries because it's located very close to District 11. (Then again, both can be true.)
Next gift is the pot of hot broth. Could be from the Capitol, it's true. Could also be from Greasy Sae, the woman who is known for serving up soup and who we learn in Catching Fire is currently starting up a collection back home to sponsor her.
I'm skipping over the sleep syrup for now because it still needs a little more proof and leadup. And that can be found in the food basket after the Feast:
Peeta peers through the rocks and then gives a whoop. Before I can stop him, he’s out in the rain, then handing something in to me. A silver parachute attached to a basket. I rip it open at once and inside there’s a feast — fresh rolls, goat cheese, apples, and best of all, a tureen of that incredible lamb stew on wild rice. The very dish I told Caesar Flickerman was the most impressive thing the Capitol had to offer.
Rolls, goat cheese, apples, lamb stew... Can I just point out that almost all of these things can be linked back to what we've already learned about Katniss's and Peeta's loved ones?
"The strong fatty cheese tastes just like the kind Prim makes" Oh I bet it does!
"We make a goat cheese and apple tart at the bakery” The Mellark bakery? That makes bread and rolls? And as Katniss mentioned twice, has an old apple tree in the backyard? That bakery?
Also (and this might be more of a stretch), when Katniss has lamb stew in the Capitol (breakfast on THG training day, in a can in MJ), it usually has dried plums. The batch in the arena does not. But as we'd just learned at that point in the book, what Katniss does have is a merchant butcher friend named Rooba who probably could've hooked Greasy Sae up with the lamb for a stew. Gale might've found the wild rice. Either they couldn't locate the plums, couldn't have them dried in time (?), or couldn't afford to buy them or send them along. I just think it's interesting the plums aren't there.
Now, if that's enough evidence, here's the second part of my theory:
Mrs. Everdeen sent in the sleep syrup (THG) and the skin ointment (CF).
Here's the thing about the sleep syrup -- whenever it's brought up, it's associated with Mrs. Everdeen.
THG: I uncork the vial and take a deep sniff. ... There’s no question, it’s sleep syrup. It’s a common medicine in District 12. Cheap, as medicine goes, but very addictive. Almost everyone’s had a dose at one time or another. We have some in a bottle at home. My mother gives it to hysterical patients to knock them out to stitch up a bad wound or quiet their minds or just to help someone in pain get through the night. CF 1: “We’ll combine it with sleep syrup, Katniss, and he’ll manage it. The herbs are more for the inflammation —” my mother begins calmly. CF 2: My mother gives me a cup of chamomile tea with a dose of sleep syrup, and my eyelids begin to droop immediately. (Extra MJ: When I finally begin to surface into the sterile hospital room in 13, I remember. I was under the influence of sleep syrup. My heel had been injured after I’d climbed out on a branch over the electric fence and dropped back into 12.) (The reason I associate this hospital scene with Mrs. Everdeen is a theory post for another time)
Picture this: Mrs. Everdeen has been attentively watching the Games with Prim and Gale. Katniss and Peeta are in the final six. Food is scarce after the pyramid blew up. Capitol TV is probably hinting at a special announcement later. She's seen decades of Games, enough to know that a feast is imminent. But one morning Peeta wakes up and panics to find Katniss missing, and Mrs. Everdeen realizes that if he reacts this way now, it will be a real problem if/when Caesar announces a feast. Oh, certainly, Katniss will want to go, but Peeta will be hysterical trying to stop her. And there's only one cheap and easy way to deal with a hysterical patient.
She goes through her apothecary stores, where of course there would be tiny corked vials, and she measures from her bottle of sleep syrup what she deems to be exactly enough to knock Peeta out for a suitable amount of time. And she shells out the money to send it Haymitch's way, because she knows it's worth the chance of getting Katniss (and Peeta) home.
Would Mrs. Everdeen do this? Set aside softer feelings and make a cold/controversial/difficult yet practical call, for a patient's own good? Is it in her character?
“Just give him the medicine!” I scream at her. “Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!” Gale begins stirring at my voice, trying to reach me. The movement causes fresh blood to stain his bandages and an agonized sound to come from his mouth. “Take her out,” says my mother. Haymitch and Peeta literally carry me from the room while I shout obscenities at her. (CF)
Then I realize what it means. “My mother’s not coming back.” “No,” he says. He pulls an envelope from his jacket pocket and hands it to me. I examine the delicate, perfectly formed writing. “She’s helping to start up a hospital in District Four. She wants you to call as soon as we get in.” My finger traces the graceful swoop of the letters. “You know why she can’t come back.” (MJ)
Yes, I think it is.
As for CF: The Everdeens weren't in optimal financial condition to send in sponsor gifts during the 74th Games (especially on day 12), which is why Collins made sure to point out the sleep syrup was cheap. But at the time of the Third Quarter Quell, the Everdeens had victor money and the Games only lasted three days. Which is why on Day 2, after hours of watching Katniss scratch herself in her sleep, we get this:
I plunk down on the sand next to Finnick and screw the lid off the tube. Inside is a thick, dark ointment with a pungent smell, a combination of tar and pine needles. I wrinkle my nose as I squeeze a glob of the medicine onto my palm and begin to massage it into my leg. A sound of pleasure slips out of my mouth as the stuff eradicates my itching. It also stains my scabby skin a ghastly gray-green.
Tar and pine needles. Tar comes from coal. Pine needles come from the woods. Ergo, the ointment comes from District 12, and since it doesn't look or smell pretty, it's obviously a home remedy made by an apothecary. A gift from Mrs. Everdeen and Prim.
(There's also the spile, which I suppose Mrs. Everdeen could've found among her husband's possessions when they were moving their stuff to the Victor's Village, but I'm not 100% on that one.)
It's just really amazing how District 12 came together, and what they sacrificed to bring Katniss home. (Also feels like foreshadowing for the end of Mockingjay, Mrs. Everdeen doing what she can to support Katniss from afar.)