Haymitch Raising/taking Care Of Geese Has Always Intrigued Me So Much And As A Textbook Over-analyzer

Haymitch raising/taking care of geese has always intrigued me so much and as a textbook over-analyzer I decided to look into it. Now Suzanne may have chosen geese at random, but that won’t stop me from looking for some deeper meaning and this is what I found.

Geese are monogamous, meaning they live in permanent pairs through out the year. And historically, they have been seen as rather easy prey to target especially by the first European colonizers when they came to America. And what else come in pairs and have been seen as easy targets within the Hunger Games? Tributes, especially tributes from district 12.

However, there is also some literary and rhetorical significance to Haymitch raising geese as well. Once again, geese are often associated with the phrase “silly goose” and “goose” means “fool” or “silly one” in many modern languages in which geese have been seen as foolish or helpless. Much of the same can be said for all of the previous tributes Haymitch mentored before Katniss and Peeta. So there is something particularly moving about the fact that Haymitch takes care of geese because of the ways that they mirror the tributes.

However, the same can, in many ways, be said of Haymitch who had gained a reputation for being the drunk and silly mentor who never led his tributes to victory. However, we know just how much the odds were against those tributes and we know just how much trauma Haymitch endured during his own games and from watching tribute after tribute die. And yet, he survived and he played an important part within the rebellion in which he becomes likened to the quote “all his geese are swans.”

And this makes Haymitch (unconsciously) taking care of geese that much more impactful and adds a bit more depth even if it was unintentional on Suzanne’s part.

a kind of friendship between Katniss and Johanna, as they are both savage daughters who grew up in the forest, finding that atmosphere and the trees calming, but each in their own way>>>

-Until Snow decided I wasn't pretty enough anymore.

it makes me so happy to see plutarch fanart! thank you so much for making them!!!

awww thank you!⁠ ♡

I'm glad you like it, i hope to make some more as thg wasn't just a phase hehe

something about katniss finding beauty in the worst moments

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins // The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins // The Hungers Games (2012) // Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins // Catching Fire (2013) // Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Not such an important question, but are there phones (or something else) in Panem? There is one mention in the book that they do exist (and they definitely should be):

- It’s so easy to talk to Cinna, though. Lately we’ve been speaking a lot on the telephone that came with the house. It’s sort of a joke, because almost no one else we know owns one. There’s Peeta, but obviously I don’t call him. Haymitch tore his out of the wall years ago. My friend Madge, the mayor’s daughter, has a telephone in her house, but if we want to talk, we do it in person. At first, the thing barely ever got used.

This suggests that Katniss was referring to a landline telephone that fits into the interior of the house in the victors' village. For the d12 residents, these houses are luxury, but they are still old-fashioned. Not everything works on electronics here, and there is even a fireplace.

- The houses inhabited by my family and Peeta give off a warm glow of life. Lit windows, smoke from the chimneys...

So, besides TV, there is hardly anything reminiscent of the future.

I'm sure that the telephone in snow's mansion looks pretty much the same as the telephone in katniss's house, but the reason is different. Their fancy president pays enough attention to aesthetics, so an old-fashioned telephone is a matter of principle.

But what about District 1, 2, 3 (is that where local iphones are made??) and the Capitol? It was smart not to mention the use of smartphones in the plot, things would have become much more complicated.

Of course, there is an analogue of Internet and social networks (how else did capitol ppl vote for the wedding dress No. 1). But I'm just wondering are they really, just like us, addicted to small metal rectangular screens or does it all look different???