{"id":1155937,"date":"2026-02-09T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=544237"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:51:13","slug":"sunrise-on-the-reaping-adds-an-extra-layer-of-tragedy-to-one-legacy-hunger-games-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sunrise-on-the-reaping-adds-an-extra-layer-of-tragedy-to-one-legacy-hunger-games-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise on the Reaping adds an extra layer of tragedy to one legacy Hunger Games character"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), in a sweater-jacket and black beanie hat, drawing something on a whiteboard in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay \u2014\u00a0Part 1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sunrise-on-the-reaping-adds-an-extra-layer-of-tragedy-to-one-legacy-hunger-games-character.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Hunger Games series author Suzanne Collins says she\u2019ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/books\/541449\/hunger-games-sequel-prequel-sunrise-on-the-reaping\">probably never write a sequel to her bestselling original trilogy<\/a>, which kickstarted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22449675\/ya-dystopia-fad-ended\">YA dystopian trend of the 2010s<\/a>. But she continues to write prequels that dive into the inner machinations of the world of Panem and the bloody competition that gave them their collective title. 2020\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2020\/5\/20\/21264857\/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-hunger-games-prequel-suzanne-collins-review\"><em>The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em><\/a> takes place 64 years before the main trilogy and focuses on despotic President Snow as a young man. The new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24172776\/hunger-games-new-book-movie-haymitch-prequel\"><em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em><\/a> takes place closer in time to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/books\/541449\/hunger-games-sequel-prequel-sunrise-on-the-reaping\">original Hunger Games trilogy<\/a>, leaving room for plenty of familiar characters to appear \u2014 including one legacy character from the first trilogy who gets a particularly heartbreaking past, making their eventual fight against the Capitol even more powerful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Haymitch Abernathy, Katniss and Peeta\u2019s mentor from the first trilogy, narrates the events of <em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em>, which starts when he\u2019s 16 years old. But Collins also gives other players more fleshed-out backstories, adding new insight about their characters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note<\/strong>: This post contains minor spoilers for <em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em>, as well as spoilers for the other Hunger Games books.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sunrise-on-the-reaping-adds-an-extra-layer-of-tragedy-to-one-legacy-hunger-games-character-1.jpg\" alt=\"Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) holds up a bow in defense. Cressida (Natalie Dormer), a woman with blonde hair and a half-shaved head, holds her elbow and urges her to stand down. From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay \u2014 Part 2.\" title=\"Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) holds up a bow in defense. Cressida (Natalie Dormer), a woman with blonde hair and a half-shaved head, holds her elbow and urges her to stand down. From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay \u2014 Part 2.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em> follows Haymitch\u2019s Hunger Games, the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2019\/5\/26\/18636556\/battle-royale-games-movie-book-koushun-takami-inspiration\"><em>Battle Royale<\/em>-style competition<\/a> where two children from each of Panem\u2019s 12 impoverished Districts are forced to compete to the death for the amusement of the affluent Capitol. Each year, a new group of 24 kids are\u00a0taken from their homes and paraded around the Capitol (quite literally, in the opening ceremony), given makeovers, and trained in combat and survival before being thrown into an arena, where the games don\u2019t end until all of the competitors are dead except the victor. Haymitch is conscripted for the 50th Hunger Games, the second \u201cQuarter Quell,\u201d where instead, four competitors are \u201creaped\u201d from each District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">While in the training session, Haymitch meets Ampert, a 12-year-old from District 3 who hopes to form an alliance with the tributes from less prosperous Districts, who historically have lower chances of winning. At one point, Ampert mentions that his father is in the training room, which gives Haymitch pause. Typically, the only people allowed in the training room are Capitol instructors, the Hunger Games staff, and the Capitol\u2019s enforcers, the Peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But Haymitch soon learns that Ampert\u2019s father is none other than former District 3 victor Beetee, a technological genius who won his Hunger Games by electrocuting the rest of his competition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In the main trilogy, Katniss meets Beetee during the Third Quarter Quell and decides to ally with him. He becomes instrumental in her rebellion against the Capitol, especially when it comes to weapons manufacturing. He makes Katniss the custom bow that she uses throughout all of <em>Mockingjay<\/em>, the final book in the trilogy. He\u2019s also responsible for hacking into the Capitol broadcast system in order to run rebel propaganda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sunrise-on-the-reaping-adds-an-extra-layer-of-tragedy-to-one-legacy-hunger-games-character-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"Jeffrey Wright as Beetee in &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1&lt;\/em&gt;.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As it turns out, Beetee\u2019s rebellious past goes back further than his actions in <em>Mockingjay<\/em>. In <em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em>, he\u2019s receiving a special sort of sadistic punishment after plotting to sabotage the Capitol\u2019s communication system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">He\u2019s too valuable to kill outright. As with most Hunger Games victors, the Capitol citizens have likely latched onto him as a sort of microcelebrity and symbol. And his technological work in District 3 is crucial for the Capitol\u2019s extravagant way of life. Instead, he\u2019s being forced to watch his son enter the Hunger Games, where he\u2019s almost certainly going to die a gruesome death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">At the same time, President Snow is forcing Beetee to assist Ampert as a mentor, training him for the games. That task typically falls to past winners from a given District, as new victims from their District are called to compete. As Beetee tells Haymitch, he\u2019s even given the special \u201cprivilege\u201d of having a booth on the training grounds, so he\u2019s stationed among the trainees, where he won\u2019t miss a second of Ampert\u2019s final moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Many previous victors we meet in the main Hunger Games books experienced tragedy and trauma, especially the ones who end up being part of the rebellion. It\u2019s a twofold loop: They likely rebelled because of tragedies they experienced, and they likely ended up with more trauma because of the consequences of any rebellious attitudes or actions. Take Johanna Mason from District 7, who resisted President Snow\u2019s attempts to sex-traffic her after her Hunger Games victory, so her entire family was eventually tortured and killed. And even before the details we learn in <em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em>, we knew Haymitch lost his family and his girlfriend to the Capitol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">At one point in the main trilogy, protagonist Katniss Everdeen says that if she and her fellow District 12 Hunger Games conscript Peeta are forced to get married, she\u2019ll never want to have children, because she\u2019s almost certain that the children of two victors will be forced to participate in the Games \u2014 especially the star-crossed lovers of District 12, who defied the Capitol. Thankfully, it never comes to that, but Ampert and Beetee\u2019s fate in this book is evidence that Katniss\u2019s fear was well founded. When the worst possible thing happened, though, Beetee kept on rebelling and fighting against the Capitol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">At the end of <em>Mockingjay<\/em>, the few living victors in the rebellion vote on whether they should host one final Hunger Games, where the children of the Capitol are forced to kill one another. Beetee, who had no problem coming up with particularly controversial weapons to use against the Capitol, votes no. And that could be because years ago, he had to watch his own child enter in the Games. He gets his justice in the original trilogy by taking the Capitol down, but <em>Sunrise on the Reaping <\/em>gives us even more context for his vote, and for his perspective on just how horrific the Games were. In the original series, Beetee decides not to stoop to the Capitol\u2019s level. The new book makes that decision seem all the more poignant. Even with all the trauma and tragedy he\u2019s endured, Beetee still keeps his heart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/books\/544237\/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-beetee-backstory\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunger Games series author Suzanne Collins says she\u2019ll probably never write a sequel to her bestselling original trilogy, which kickstarted the YA dystopian trend of the 2010s. But she continues to write prequels that dive into the inner machinations of the world of Panem and the bloody competition that gave them their collective title. 2020\u2019s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place 64 years before the main trilogy and focuses on despotic President Snow as a young man. The new book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place closer in time to the original Hunger Games trilogy, leaving room for plenty of familiar characters to appear \u2014 including one legacy character from the first trilogy who gets a particularly heartbreaking past, making their eventual fight&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sunrise-on-the-reaping-adds-an-extra-layer-of-tragedy-to-one-legacy-hunger-games-character\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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