Sunrise on the reaping was absolutely insane.
Because wdym Beetee had to watch his son get reaped, had to mentor him even in the training rooms where mentors don’t usually go, had to entrust him with this plan to destroy the arena only for it to barely do any damage and wind up being what killed him, and had to watch as the flesh from his son’s bones was torn off by mutts. Haymitch’s desperate attempts to save Ampert from a painful death did nothing. Oh, and Beetee and his wife have another baby on the way.
Did he have to spend the next 18 years of his life trying to ‘behave’ so they don’t kill his baby again like they killed Ampert. Unable to largely help with any rebellious efforts because he couldn’t lose another child.
Only for him to be sent back into the arena, sure he will die for the rebel’s cause. When he makes it out, he is either separated from his family, or maybe they’re already gone, taken from him and killed too as punishment for something else. Years of behaving may not have ever mattered in the end, because his family was doomed if he stepped out of line. And he had to live through his punishments again and again.
