Due to the horror of the Games, his grief over his family's deaths, and the fact that every tribute he trained was killed in the arena, Haymitch turns to drinking and isolates himself from the rest of District He begins sleeping with a knife in his hand and refuses to let anyone into his house.
Katniss later mentions that it was as if he had sentenced himself to solitary confinement. Haymitch first appears when he goes on stage during the reaping.
Drunk and staggering, he head-dives off the stage. He is then seen on the train taking Katniss and Peeta to the Capitol, drunk again, and vomits on the expensive floor, which disgusts Effie. Peeta cleans him up, washes him, and puts him to bed. The next morning, he eats breakfast with Katniss and Peeta who get into a fight with him.
Katniss breaks it up by throwing a knife between Haymitch's hand and his drink glass. He is pleased to have finally gotten a pair who will put up a fight. He examines them and begins to formulate a plan for them. During the parade, he is surprised by Katniss and Peeta's costumes and takes this advantage by making more future plans to help them.
He takes the duo and tells them about their training for the games and asks if they want to be trained together or privately. He learns their skills Katniss- bow and arrow; Peeta- strength during an argument with them while on the train. He tells them to train and learn new things at the training center, to avoid practicing the skills they excel in, and to stay by each other's side. He is humored and laughs when Katniss tells him how the Gamemakers looked after she almost shot them with an arrow.
He is pleased with their training scores and tells Katniss she got a high score due to her attitude. Later he informs her that Peeta changed his mind and asked to be coached in private. He tries to teach Katniss how to speak in front of the crowd during her interview with Caesar Flickerman, but fails and is only angered, saying she has the charm of a dead slug.
Before the games begin he tells them to stay alive During the Games, Haymitch helps Effie line up sponsors. He also communicates with Katniss through giving or withholding of her sponsor gifts he does not send water when she is close to a source, but sends broth and medicine when she "plays her part" convincingly. He does not help Peeta during the Games as only one of them could live, and he knew Katniss stood the best chance, although it is implied that Peeta may have told him to help Katniss and not him.
He is thrilled when both of them come back alive and hugs them both. Before Katniss goes to her final interview with Caesar, he tells her that the Capitol is furious about her and Peeta's act in the arena with the berries, because the Capitol saw it as an act of rebellion and tells her she must act in love with Peeta so that even Capitol and the rest of Panem will see it was not rebellion.
After the interview, he is positive that the Capitol is convinced she was in love and not rebelling. He goes back to District 12 with Katniss and Peeta. When he gets home, he starts drinking heavily again. In Catching Fire, Haymitch's drinking becomes progressively worse.
At times, he gets so drunk that he sleeps for most of the day. At the beginning of the book, Haymitch is passed out and drunk. Katniss fails in her first attempt of shaking him awake, so she resorts to dumping a bucket of water on him.
This results in a startled Haymitch who begins to slash randomly in all directions and yell. When the time comes for the victory tour, Haymitch accompanies Katniss and Peeta along with Effie Trinket and their stylists and prep teams. Katniss goes to his apartment, and when the train stops for fuel, she suggests they go outside, and tells him about the encounter with President Snow, how he told her how the other districts are on the verge of rebelling, and that the "star-crossed lovers" act must be believed by everyone if she plans on keeping her family and friends alive.
He coaches Katniss through the "madly in love" facade which she must keep up with Peeta. Haymitch is surprised and somewhat disgusted by Katniss losing her temper with Effie after she complains about the train's unplanned stop.
Haymitch helps them through preparation for their victory speech they must give to the grieving families of the District 11 tributes, Thresh, and Rue. After Peeta finishes his speech. Katniss' speech to honor Thresh and Rue, and the three-finger salute she does in their honor, are viewed as an act of rebellion by the Peacekeepers. They shoot an elderly man, which causes unrest.
Haymitch interrogates Katniss and Peeta for answers, and he and Katniss must confess what has been happening to Peeta since they kept him in the dark, which angers him. Haymitch is taken along with the others to a room to prepare to depart. Haymitch continues to help them throughout the rest of the time until President Snow declares that the third Quarter Quell tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors.
Haymitch continues drinking, maybe worse than usual. When Katniss enters his house—after freaking out in an empty victor's house cellar—he laughs because Peeta had already talked to him, making. Haymitch promises that this time Peeta be kept alive. Then Haymitch asks, "Well, what do you want then? Katniss refuses to hand it back, so Haymitch pulls out another. Haymitch is drunk and talks about how even if he is reaped Peeta will volunteer for him to be with her.
Katniss asks him what he'll do if Peeta's name is drawn. And she convinces him that because he owes Peeta and he hates life anyway, Haymitch should go into the Hunger Games instead of Peeta. Gale then walks into where Katniss bawls in his arms. Haymitch promises Katniss that he will try to save Peeta this time, because he feels as if he owes him, for saving Katniss the first time. Haymitch's name is called by Effie but barely has time to frown before Peeta volunteers.
As usual, when Katniss' thoughts turn to Peeta, they often find Gale, too. Gale, who exists outside the arena, provides a source of very real security and comfort that she hasn't been able to maintain in the Games.
She often finds opportunity to compare the two of them. When Katniss and Peeta are hunting and Peeta is making so much noise, she can't help but think of Gale and his stealth while hunting. Katniss' determination to help Thresh's and Rue's families should she win hints at her desire for more interaction and cooperation between the districts after the Games, something that is forbidden by the Capitol.
The Capitol's rules, however, don't seem to faze Katniss, whose presence in the Games has already changed them, first in how there can be two winners this year and secondly in how District 11 helped a tribute from District The longer Katniss is in the Games, the more fault she finds with the Capitol and the more resolve she has to rebel against their rules once she gets out of the arena, which foreshadows how Katniss will use her role as victor to stir up more conflict and change.
Previous Chapter Next Chapter Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. He drinks to cope with the trauma, and he's reluctant to get attached to Katniss and Peeta because he's watched 48 of his tributes before them die in the arena.
In the books, the parallels between Katniss and Haymitch are writ large, and one of the biggest losses on screen is the backstory which makes them crystal clear. Haymitch won his own Games by using the arena's force field as a weapon — a subversive act which the Capitol did not take well. We learn in the Mockingjay book that a couple of weeks after his victory, Haymitch's mother, younger brother and girlfriend were all killed by Snow as punishment.
Sound familiar? It should, because Katniss pulls almost exactly the same stunt in the concluding moments of Catching Fire , and the only reason her family aren't slaughtered in retribution is that the Capitol has bigger fish to fry, what with the revolution and all. The bond that develops between Haymitch and Katniss is rooted in just how similar they are.
Seeing the familiar revolutionary spark in Katniss is what inspires Haymitch to give a damn again, and to become the mentor she needs — it's in large part thanks to his interventions that both Katniss and Peeta survive their first Games.
Though it's told only through glimpses, Haymitch's own complex arc plays out in the background throughout all three books, and the casting of Harrelson ensures that sense of inner life carries over to the screen. At the age of 16, Haymitch was chosen as a tribute for the 50th Hunger Games.
What made that year's Games different was that it was the second Quarter Quell, a special version of the Games that changed the rules with special twists that made the game even more dangerous.
The first Quarter Quell, the 25th Games, had each district vote on who would act as tribute, rather than being randomly chosen by the Capitol. Haymitch's Hunger Games doubled the number of tributes from 24 to 48, picking four teens from each district instead of the normal two. Haymitch was one of the four chosen to represent District 12, and was sent into an arena that was as beautiful as it was deadly.
He managed to survive many of the arena's traps and stood his own against several opponents, eventually teaming up with fellow District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner. The two traveled to the edge of the arena, where Haymitch discovered that the force field surrounding the arena bounced back objects thrown at it.
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