this is so cornplate but it’s keeping me up at night. how could haymitch have known what a seashell was during a game when he was a small child?
Then I remember a Games from when I was little, and a hysterical boy dressed in a suit made of seashells, who’d just been crowned in front of the entire nation of Panem.
Like how do you know what that is? you said you have “little schooling”, there’s next to no books in 12, that you “learn your letters in school”. Even volcanoes barely get a mention, and that’s framed next to the fact it’s because they have mountains.
In District 12, we learn about mountains but predominantly the ones that cover the seams of coal that will provide our livelihood. Volcanoes barely get a mention.
Their curriculum is built around their district. Beetee says schooling in d3 is mostly all about electronics. There would be no reason to teach them what a seashell was. They’ve been isolated for at least 50 years. They can’t just leave d12 to vacation at the ocean. Katniss and Peeta had only seen the ocean once on their victory tour.
