Thinking about Katnissâ description of Haymitch in The Hunger Games, the way she has no care for him, and very little sympathy. She even says she detests him upon first impressions.
Does that mean Burdock never talked about his old friend? That Haymitch pushing him away was enough to break that?
Do you think Haymitch looks at Katniss and sees the man who tried so hard to hold on to him? The man who caught him as he begged to join his family as they burned, who spent day in and day out trying to get him through this, and it took Haymitch physically harming his girl to get him to leave? Do you think Burdock understood?
Maybe Burdock and Asterid couldnât talk about it without guilt, feeling like they abandoned him. Asterid isnât exactly known for her emotional openness. So they didnât. Burdock, seeing him stumble on to that stage day in and day out for almost two decades, drunk beyond his years, couldnât deal. Think about Asterid realizing her daughterâs life was entrusted to him now. Do you think they talked, after everything? Do you think Asterid ever visited Haymitchâs house, the scar on her forehead not even visible anymore, feeling some sense of misplaced duty for her husband and daughter? Trying to repay him for her childâs life?
Maybe they talked a little, in District 13. Haymitch would be sober for the first time in decades, and there was precious little else to do. Those days looking at Peeta or Katniss as they recovered. Do you think Haymitch ever apologized? Would she have accepted? Would anything mend?
I donât know man. This book broke me and now Iâm making it everyoneâs problem.
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