Every Hunger Games Book (including Sunrise On The Reaping) addresses the Tributes Made for District 12.
With her Hunger Games volumes, Collins has created a particular pattern that Sunrise On The Reaping seems to have solidified. Four Hunger Games winners from District 12—Lucy Gray Baird, Haymitch Abernathy, Katniss Everdeen, and Peeta Mellark—have emerged over Panem's history. Naturally, the story of Katniss and Peeta dominated the Hunger Games primary trilogy. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes centers Lucy Gray's 10th Hunger Games, where Coriolanus Snow mentored her. Sunrise on the Reaping, the last District 12 victor to have his own story, will now center Haymitch.
Katniss remarked before she volunteered as a tribute in The Hunger Games that there had been exactly two District 12 tributes but that nobody knew who the first one was. Lucy Gray is presumably the first victor; she was forgotten as the Capitol erased the records and the 10th Hunger Games were not shown in the Districts.
Haymitch Is The Last District 12 Victor To Get His Own Story
Though written out of sequence, the overall narrative of Collins' Hunger Games series now centers on the victors of District 12, who each had a major influence on President Snow's ascent to power and fall from grace. Snow started to believe in the Hunger Games instead than hating them since Lucy Gray's claimed defection in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes convinced him that mankind is dangerous and had to be under control. Thanks to a District 12 girl who set fire in the heart of his country, Katniss's tale in The Hunger Games saw Snow lose that control. Haymitch's account will now be the last piece of the jigsaw.
Already, Catching Fire showed that Haymitch won his games using the arena's features against the Capitol, in a same manner as Katniss and Lucy Gray. This infuriated the president so much he killed all of Haymitch's loved ones before he could even go back to District 12. Snow obviously took Haymitch's triumph very personally as a victor's friends and family were under his power. Naturally, Sunrise On The Reaping will offer additional background as to why, but the lad from District 12 could not have been of use.
Sunrise on the Reaping movie is already under development and, given its release date, it is confirmed to smash a significant record.
Collins has another Hunger Games novel on schedule, but an ongoing victor trend suggests this will be the last one for the trilogy. Sunrise on the Reaping, an anticipated book and film, will chronicle the events of the 50th Hunger Games—won by Haymitch Abernathy of District 12. Though hopes are still strong that further prequels or sequels would follow, this is merely one of several spinoff tales fans have been requesting. Still, given the current The Hunger Games formula, this might be our last trip to Panem.
The introduction of Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping has generated a lot of buzz, and the news that Lionsgate already has a movie version under development really heightens this. The Catching Fire book detailed Haymitch's games, and this especially gory occasion was calling for its own spinoff. Of all, this is hardly the only fascinating tale the Hunger Games books avoided. Book and movie requests for Finnick, Joanna, District 13, and more have come in. These might never come to be, though.
Is sunrise on the reaping the final hunger games narrative?
Collins is a delightfully formulaic writer; every one of her Hunger Games book follows a known cadence. These stories have a common denominator now: President Snow and District 12; but, because Haymitch's narrative is now being recounted, there is nowhere else left to fit. Of course, additional highly sought-after tales could easily find their way into books or films down road. Finnick's whole story would be fascinating, and District 13 has plenty we still don't know about. Collins would be upsetting the poeticism of what she has created, though, by exploring one of these ideas.
The clever addition to Katniss Hunger Games was the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes since it retroactively gave Snow's obsession on Katniss background. His stay with Lucy Gray helped him to come to see that humanity deserved totalitarian rule, therefore enhancing the narrative of The Hunger Games. Sunrise on the Reaping might also have the similar effect, therefore augmenting the powerful social commentary of Snow's struggle with the most unexpected tributes to District 12. Though other spinoffs may be interesting, their influence would not be as great. Though further storylines are obviously feasible, with this ending The Hunger Games might be more successful.
Starting with Lucy Gray and finishing with Katniss Everdeen, Snow's personal war with District 12 clearly forms the central narrative of the Hunger Games series.
Though written out of sequence, the main narrative of Collins' Hunger Games series now centers on the winners of District 12, who each significantly affected President Snow's ascent to power and collapse. Snow started to believe in the Hunger Games instead than hating them since Lucy Gray's claimed defection in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes convinced him that mankind is dangerous and had to be under control. Thanks to a District 12 girl who set fire in the heart of his country, Katniss's tale in The Hunger Games saw Snow lose that control. Haymitch's account will now be the last piece of the jigsaw.
Already, Catching Fire showed that Haymitch won his games using the arena's features against the Capitol, in a same manner as Katniss and Lucy Gray. This infuriated the president so much he killed all of Haymitch's loved ones before he could even go back to District 12. Snow obviously took Haymitch's triumph very personally as a victor's friends and family were under his power. Of course, Sunrise on the Reaping will offer additional background as to why, but the lad from District 12 couldn't have helped.
