Haymitch confirms that Katniss, through Burdock, has Covey heritage, even when she sees herself as Seam through and through. In fact, Katniss combines the strengths of all three District 12 groups: the Covey's musicality and anti-authoritarianism, the Seam's grit, work ethic and general ability to make do with little, and Town's entrepreneurial spirit and self confidence. The last thing Haymitch and Katniss wouldn't even think to include, but there's none of the Seam's awe of the well-to-do, "Seam boys don't marry Town girls", in Katniss. First off, they do, cue Burdock; secondly, Katniss is unimpressed with her mother's Town ways but she still learned them and cannot be intimidated or humiliated by opulence in the same way that a young Haymitch could be dwarfed by it. Of course, Peeta is Town through and through, but Katniss survived not, as some Seam girls would maybe, by hiring herself out, but by starting her own business. I would have to reread why Asterid doesn't have the apothecary anymore but maybe she was disowned; nevermind - Katniss would have made sure Prim had her own stall at the Hob, then her own medical business, re-establishing her as a sought after Town girl. Haymitch wants Sid to have a good job, Katniss wants Prim to have her own business. It's a confidence in her own, Seam honed, abilities, with a Covey defiance and a healthy dose of Town sense of inner worth. Katniss doesn't have much money but she has a very elegant Reaping dress for 12 standards, with hairstyle to match, and no ingrained sense of being lesser- than (while not being so defiant as to make unnecessary trouble in 12 before being Reaped). And to some sponsors, that must have mattered. As much as her Covey: "Thank you for your consideration" and "Let's both take the Nightlock" and her Seam skills, inventiveness and grit.
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