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Back home in District 12 and I found some of Lenore Doves geese
Good-bye, Maysilee Donner,
who I loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. Not as a sweetheart or even a friend. A sister, I'd said.
Some tributes and their tokens
rest in peace kids of the quarter quell you would have loved summer camp :(
Lenore Dove redraw after the casting :)
The Covey:
It’s kind of insane that Katniss and Peeta chose to spend nights together on the Victory Tour considering that their day activities involved being shoved in each others faces all day.
Even people who are in romantic relationships could possibly be sick of touching and spending all their time with someone. They would need a break. Let alone Katniss and Peeta who just started being friends and are anxious.
But what do both of them think of as bright spots to the tour? Choosing to spend the nights together, and it’s not even the comfort of having someone in the same room. They’re taking that time to be close enough that Katniss has a spot on Peeta’s chest for her head.
The argument that Katniss and Peeta were forced together really holds no water when they take opportunities to be super close where they would be right to want some distance. Their friendship and love was a choice they made over and over, not something forced on them.
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“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”
How are we holding up? I’m still crying about Lenore Dove and the gumdrops
Driving today and I saw Haymitch and Lenore Dove
Alright was no one going to tell me that in the middle of the Nevada desert is an old cemetery that contains the bodies of a bunch of miners who died in a fire and next door is a haunted clown motel
Why are we still setting horror movies in generic Victorian houses in the woods when this is a real place in the world
im at the miner cemetery. im at the haunted clown motel. im at the combination miner cemetery and haunted clown motel.
It's so important to me that Haymitch figures Lenore's mystery.
We know Lucy Gray was such a remarkable woman in spite of Snow's pov. He never understands her and to the audience she remains mysterious despite the fact that we (the audience) know there was more to her than the pretty songbird or traitorous snake. To Snow she stays his manic pixie dream girl, a lesson in getting attached to pretty things he can't control.
But not Haymitch.
There are multiple characters (including Lenore Dove herself) that allude to Haymitch not knowing all her secrets. Even when he's dreaming of a life where he's not reaped, he immediately starts thinking about how Lenore Dove has that side of her that doesn't include him. Does that make him rethink his love for her? Does he ever wonder if he should find another girl that would be happy as just a miner/bootlegger's wife? Nope.
He understands that Lenore Dove has her own interior life, her own dreams and her own agency. Haymitch knows that he doesn't play a major part in all of those. He fears her rebellious spirit for the trouble it may bring to her, never blaming her for the major problem it caused him, but he doesn't try to stop her and control her. Haymitch never once wants to ask her to do what he wants, he doesn't even seem to register that as a possibility.
I keep thinking about how Snow hated Lucy Gray's poem, how he dismissed the poetry as silly and never cared about metaphors. I don't remember his exact words, but he made it sound beneath them, barely managing to pretend he cared only to get Lucy Gray off his back.
How Haymitch admits that a lot of Lenore Dove's philosophies go over his head, but instead of just giving up he keeps trying to understand her explanations. How he never gets angry or frustrated despite wanting to chill with his girlfriend when she started quoting David Hume. He's constantly reflecting on what she teaches him, he's proud of how many new words she's reached him through songs, and laments that they can't sing them. She recognizes the dangerous lyrics and makes them his flag in the games. He memorizes Lenore Dove's name poem and he constantly analyzes its meaning. That man is 24/7 rotating The Raven by Edgard Allan Poe in his head because it's his girl's poem. He was never a singer but he learns to love and understand poetry to be worthy of the girl he loves.
So the fact that, in the end, he learns about the orange nail polish and the posters is so important. The fact that he gets the final piece to understand that Lenore Dove wasn't just his girl (he never thought that, he's not Snow), that she wasn't just smart, philosophical and a bit rebellious; that she was actively a Rebel. The fact that he takes it as a sign to forever forsake whatever remains of his dreams and commit to his promise to her, to bringing her dream to reality... He is the antithesis of Snow.
Haymitch truly, selflessly, loved Lenore Dove. In the end, he understood her better than anyone else and honored her wishes above his own. When he found out that her dreams were so much bigger than he first thought, so much bigger than him, he wasn't turned off by it. He never wanted a woman that was reduced to just him, but he gladly sacrificed all that he was for her legacy.
Snow tried to erase Lucy Gray from the world, Haymitch worked his entire life to transform the world into Lenore Dove's dream, even if he had to erase himself in the process.
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I have been binging the hunger games films but I got to mockingjay 1 and stopped because omfg those two movies are so boring and long why do they have to be 2 of them
Propaganda in SOTR
An interesting facet of the way propaganda is used in SOTR is that the Capitol/Plutarch's manipulation of the footage happens gradually over the course of the Games in real time, which means people see multiple versions of the same events. Things are aired and then scrubbed, or else aired and then re-aired, slightly altered, until we get the edited cut that emerges during the Victory Ceremony recap. That 'final' edit succeeds in replacing the nation's collective memory of the Games, but it's important to note that plenty of citizens have, to varying degrees, witnessed parts of the truth!
For example, the footage from when the Games is airing "live" across Panem during mandatory viewing is not tampered with to nearly the same extent as the post-Games recap, both because:
1) the overarching 'narrative' of the Games inherently cannot be determined until the Games are finished and a Victor is named. Even the Gamemakers don't know exactly how the story's going to end. Things that might've seemed like normal gameplay (such as Haymitch and Ampert's initial meetup/alliance) likely air to the public before it becomes clear that what those two are actually up to is rebellious. When they begin to carry out their plot, certainly the cameras cut over to the other players, meaning none of the tank explosion gets shown, but only later would the Ampert & Haymitch alliance have been cut out completely.
2) The five or so minute delay is not long enough to make the kind of changes Haymitch describes watching during his Victor's Ceremony, and it is more likely that it only gives the Gamemakers/broadcasting crews enough lead time to determine which tributes they should be following at any given point of the Games (and when to cut away when someone is involved in something questionable). When the Careers and Haymitch and Maysilee encounter Gamemakers in the arena, for example, you can bet the footage airing across Panem shifts to Wellie in her tree. But later, when Haymitch tracks down Wellie and helps her, that's something that probably is shown at first, only to be erased later.
I'm thinking about this because I read a review where someone was saying this book opens up new plot holes for the original trilogy, because if they changed up Haymitch's games so much they could've just edited out Katniss and Peeta's suicide attempt and the berries altogether. I think it's a lot more complicated than that!
In her SOTR B&N edition interview, Suzanne even discusses how many versions of Haymitch's reaping exist and air to different people at different times. On the one hand you have what actually happens and is first filmed: The peacekeeper's shooting Woodbine, Lenore Dove helping Woodbine's mother, Haymitch's rigged 'reaping.' All of District 12 witnesses this, but the wider nation doesn't. Then you have the version that is aired to the rest of Panem after the 5 minute delay: Haymitch's name is called. No one reacts. Then you have the version Plutarch tweaks for the nightly recap: Sid and Ma are shown reacting to Haymitch's name being called. You then have the version shown during the Victor's Ceremony, post-games: Sid and Ma are scrubbed from the footage. And even then, finally, you get the version Katniss and Peeta watch on the train in Catching Fire, which Suzanne states could very well have been further tweaked over the years to fit an evolving narrative.
One can imagine this is true of many other elements of these Games. Capitol citizens directly witness both the Chariot Parade and the Interviews. Since the Interviews are also mandatory "live" viewing, nationwide, presumably the rest of Panem get much more extended footage of each tribute (with maybe just a couple of their answers cut by the 5 minute delay) than what is ultimately preserved on the tape Katniss & Peeta see. It's only after the games that the Newcomer alliance is all but erased.
The tributes' families are interviewed when there are eight kids remaining. Sid and Ma must've been interviewed back in Twelve, and surely that was shown. It's cut out, after, to make people forget about Haymitch's family. Similarly, the footage of Haymitch receiving the milk in the arena probably airs, because Snow's plan there is to force Haymitch to look like a terrible person (by dumping it when Wellie needed it), or force him to kill his ally (by giving Wellie the milk), or force him to kill himself (by drinking it), all of which needs to be seen to be effective. That entire plot line is cut from the recap footage because it goes nowhere, and no one who did see it probably thinks anything of it because it ends up not being important to Wellie's or Haymitch's death, but this doesn't erase that people did see it.
Ultimately, the point Suzanne's making re: propaganda isn't as simple as the nation being fed one (1) false version of events and believing it because it's the only thing they've ever been shown. It's that many citizens WITNESSED (to various degrees, depending on where and who they are) other versions of these Games, with more, though still not entirely truthful, elements from reality. Yet even though there are plenty of discrepancies for people to question, no one does. Haymitch even comments on this as he's watching the recap. The Capitol's gone so far as to have even changed up the order of the deaths (which wouldn't have been altered in the "live" footage for obvious reasons), and the Capitol audience is eating it up even though they MUST remember it didn't happen like that!! The propaganda, the final narrative, is so effective that it makes people forget even the truths they have seen with their own eyes. Reality gets buried under several layers of falsehood, not just the one. And no one asks any questions.
To bring it back around to Peeta and Katniss, their games and rebellion are harder to alter for several reasons. Some things do get cut, including what Katniss' does for Rue, in the recap. But The Finale is the one point of the games that to some degree needs to be shown in all versions. There's no one else left to cut away to, for one, and there also needs to be some sort of narrative ending to close the Games. It's harder to edit actual deaths, and harder still when it's down to the last two tributes remaining. (I'll point out here that the Capitol doesn't alter the force field trick in Haymitch's games, either, even though some people might have read rebellion even in that [Katniss and Peeta certainly do!] They really couldn't. This is why I think Haymitch's side plot to blow up the cornucopia and kill off Silka and likely himself in the process might have actually worked to cause a visible stark for the rebellion more than anything else that he does. To at least some degree, that would've had to have been shown. They would need it to explain the ending.)
Now, in a best case scenario, the Gamemakers certainly could've sent in a targeted mutt or something to take out Katniss or Peeta, and thus handpicked their singular Victor. But this idea is immediately foiled by the both of them very imminently killing themselves. This time, the Capitol does not have the benefit of time on their side, and the 5 minute delay in the footage makes not one ounce of difference.
Secondly, Katniss & Peeta have the added protection their personal narratives afford them. It's harder to erase Prim from all footage than it was Sid and Ma, because Katniss volunteering for Prim is The Fact about her everyone latches onto pre-Games. The desperate star-crossed lovers storyline, meanwhile, effectively makes the berry trick ambiguous, instead of inherently rebellious. Some might see it as an attack against the Capitol, but plenty more buy into the romance, and even Snow is forced to admit that this narrative can be useful in shifting the public sentiment. By that point in the books, the time for killing them has passed and it makes more sense for the Capitol to use Katniss & Peeta, just as by the end of SOTR, it makes more sense for the Capitol to use Haymitch to solidify their propaganda. Thus, Haymitch's story enhances Katniss and Peeta's, rather than tarnishes its believability. When propaganda works, it will have people believing what they are told above even their own memories. Katniss' ~luck~ comes from what Haymitch never had... a series of other events and people directly aligning with her actions to allow them to break through the Capitol's narrative.
I wish my little brother liked the hunger games or even would just read the damn books because he would be a perfect haymitch. He’s 15, a fabulous actor, and he looks just like young woody harellson.
Also we live near where the first movie was filmed so if they film in nc again it would be so great
I hope any of you reading or read sunrise on the reaping aren’t doing so with the same eyes who have watched palestinians go through a genocide and never said a fucking thing.