Warning: This text comprises SPOILERS for Dawn on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins.
The Hunger Games introduces Katniss Everdeen to many victors in Catching Hearth, and Sunrise on the Reaping returns several of these characters to the limelight. Among the many prequel novel’s most notable cameos are Wiress, Beetee, and Mags, three of the victors known as to be tributes in Catching Fire‘s 75th Hunger Games. All of them change into Katniss’ allies within the original Hunger Games books, and so they’re all in on the plan to interrupt her out of the world. Sunrise on the Reaping reveals this is not the primary time such a scheme is ready in movement both.
At Beetee’s and Plutarch’s urging, Haymitch makes an attempt to interrupt the world, 25 years earlier than the insurrection efficiently extracts Katniss from it. And outsmarting the setting the place the Starvation Video games happen is an concept that comes partially from Wiress. Whereas Catching Hearth solely provides a short overview of the opposite victors’ backstories, Dawn on the Reaping offers readers extra perception into their particular person experiences within the Video games. Wiress’ time within the area sounds just like the stuff of nightmares, and it occurs only one yr earlier than Haymitch is thrown into the match.
Wiress Gained The forty ninth Starvation Video games Match
She Was District 3’s Tribute The 12 months Earlier than Haymitch’s Quarter Quell
Wiress steps in as a mentor for Haymitch and the opposite District 12 tributes in Dawn on the Reaping, and it is her first time filling this position. In spite of everything, Wiress wins the forty ninth Starvation Video games match, that means she’s District 3’s tribute only one yr earlier than Haymitch’s Video games. Regardless of being so new to the mentor position — and nonetheless very younger — she provides strong recommendation to her District 12 prices. Not solely does she inform them to look out for clues in regards to the area throughout coaching, however she provides a useful track to remind them of their priorities:
“First keep away from the slaughter,
Get weapons, search for water.
Discover meals and the place to sleep.
Hearth and buddies can maintain.”
Wiress’ track is relevant for any tribute hoping to outlive, however the notice in regards to the area is particularly becoming coming from her. Dawn on the Reaping reveals that the forty ninth Starvation Video games befell in a mirror area — one Haymitch notes was “stuffed with shiny surfaces.” With the whole lot being reflective, it was meant to be disorienting, and lots of the tributes misplaced their minds or died as a result of they could not inform up from down. Wiress’ win will be chalked as much as a mixture of luck and cleverness, and the latter can also be how she figures out the clock setup in Catching Hearth.
Wiress Gained The forty ninth Starvation Video games By Outsmarting The Mirror Enviornment
She Makes use of Its Reflective Surfaces To Disguise, Then Win
Wiress manages to win the forty ninth Starvation Video games by outsmarting the world and utilizing it to her benefit. Haymitch recollects, “She took all of it in, then fastidiously maneuvered away from the Cornucopia, in some way discovering packs of provides the place none seemed to be.” After getting these provides, Wiress locates a blind spot behind a rock, and she or he spends a lot of the match there. Even the sponsors cannot discover her to ship items, so the opposite tributes aren’t in a position to monitor her down both.
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It’s no shock given the e book covers the bloodiest Starvation Video games in Panem’s historical past, however Dawn on the Reaping options many devastating deaths.
Wiress reveals herself when it is simply her and a tribute from District 6 left, and she or he tips him into lunging for a mirrored image of her as an alternative of the actual factor. The boy slams his head into the world’s mirrors, then drowns, rendering Wiress the winner of the Video games. Though intentional, it feels lots like Haymitch’s win in Dawn on the Reaping. Wiress proves that brains matter simply as a lot as brawn in The Starvation Video games — typically extra, relying on the world.
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Suzanne Collins
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Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz, Willow Shields, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman
