Haymitch Abernathy was born 40 years prior to the 74th Hunger Games, during the same year the 34th Hunger Games were held. There is no information regarding his childhood and early teenage years, although it is known that he is from the Seam of District 12, and had a younger brother, a mother, and a girlfriend.
He is not known to have ever married, or even been romantic with another woman after her. However, in the films he occasionally engaged in light flirtation with Effie Trinket, and the two kissed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.
While, throughout the series, there's some chemistry between the two, nothing ever comes of the tension in Suzanne Collins' novels. Beyond the kiss, nothing happened between the two in the movies either.
Haymitch himself begins drinking to numb the pain and starts sleeping with a knife in his hand. His hatred of the Capitol crystallized here, allowing him to become a central figure within the rebellion he would help plan 25 years later.
The Entire Life of Haymitch Abernathy Explained (From the Books)
Did Haymitch have a happy ending?
FITTING ENDING: Haymitch Abernathy
Luckily for us, he didn't die. He was front and center of the rebellion, and despite his problems with drinking, we could tell that he cared about the cause. After the Capitol was brought down, he returned to his home district, and apparently raised geese.
Not Much Was Revealed About Haymitch's Return To District 12
Drinking himself into oblivion was his only way to cope at that point. Other than that, the series added that he started to raise geese during the new chapter of his life. Thankfully, he still had a few close friends nearby.
Just before Katniss goes before the audience for the homecoming banquet, Haymitch gives her a hug and whispers that the Capitol is furious with her for making them look like a joke. Her only defense can be that she was so madly in love with Peeta, she didn't care how her actions might reflect upon the Capitol.
He only uses Katniss because the Capitol is brutally oppressive and he realizes that, with Katniss's help, the rebels have a real chance of bringing it down. This sort of cynical pragmatism largely defines Haymitch, and it stems from a combination of realism and a rebellious spirit.
In The Hunger Games, Effie is an escort, which is a Capitol citizen tasked with traveling with those chosen for the Hunger Games and helping them prepare for their participation in the Games. The process begins when the escort of each district draws the names of one boy and one girl to participate.
Sadly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman died while filming the final installment in the series, and there was no way around the fact that his characters' role had to be lessened. Specifically he was meant to be in the scene in the film with Katniss where instead Haymitch reads a letter to her from Plutarch.
The fan-favorite relationship between Haymitch and Banks' character, Effie Trinket, took a big step forward at the end of Mockingjay - Part 2 when the former victor planted a serious smooch on the normally prim and polished Capitol chaperone, a move Harrelson admits was improvised by him while shooting the scene.
The Hunger Games Books Add More Insight Into Cato and Clove's Relationship. While Glimmer's death occurs the same way in both The Hunger Games movie and book, Clove's death was given a change with the book's adaptation to film.
The victor tributes from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 all had knowledge of the plan, which explains why it seemed everyone was working to protect her and Peeta.
As the lone District 12 mentor for Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, it was revealed that Haymitch won the annual Hunger Games event when he was just 16 years old.
Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson): Ralph Abernathy was a leader in the Civil Rights movement, and is a fitting namesake for the revolutionary Haymitch.
In the 75th Hunger Games, Finnick Odair from District 4 had a token that was a gold bangle with a flame pattern. This token was first given to Haymitch Abernathy from Effie Trinket as a sign of them being a team. Haymitch gave it to Finnick to tell Katniss to make him an ally, as he could later help her in the games.
Haymitch is already drinking, and Peeta gets angry with him because he's supposed to be advising them. He slaps the drink out of Haymitch's hand. Haymitch punches him, and Katniss stabs her knife into the table between his hand and the liquor bottle.
Katniss doesn't trust him at first, mostly because Finnick is very flirtatious and seems to be working an angle. But as they work hard to survive in their second competition, Finnick becomes an ally who joins the revolution.
Katniss has a tracker injected into her forearm. After they land, she goes underground to the Launch Room, or the Stockyard as the people in the districts call it, and begins her preparations for the start of the Games.
What happened to Caesar Flickerman at the end of Mockingjay?
As an eager mouthpiece for The Capitol, his fate remains unknown following the successful revolution at the conclusion of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. Presumably, he's executed alongside the other former elites, but a definitive answer remains unknown.
