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“Can you imagine [the sun] rising on a world without a reaping?”

Lenore Dove addresses the above quote to Haymitch in Chapter 1. She and Haymitch are sitting in the meadow, enjoying a few moments together until they must ready themselves for the reaping, and she envisions a future in which the Hunger Games are obsolete. Haymitch does not think this reality is possible, but Lenore Dove, with her “rebel[lious] acts” and “dangerous” songs, believes that it is. Lenore Dove is the first person in the novel to condemn the Capitol’s control and her defiant longing for a brighter future establishes themes of rebellion and justice that persist throughout. Her question also anticipates her final moments, when makes Haymitch swear on her dying breath that he will stop another sun from rising on another reaping. She, like Maysilee, holds Haymitch to his promise and inspires him to fight back against the Capitol.

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