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Warning : There are spoilers onward for Sunrise on the Reaping .
Sunrise on the Reapingreveals who mint the phrase"May the betting odds be ever in your favor . “The Hunger Games ' most iconic line isprimarily associated with Effie Trinket , who say it while preside over the reaping in District 12 . Despite Effie ’s practiced intention , the line associated with her is a cruel and sinister affair to say to a someone who has just been select to campaign to the death , and it is a reminder of howPresident Coriolanus Snowand the Capitol control the betting odds .
Effie is one of manyreturningHunger Gamescharacterswho look inSunrise on the Reaping , and the novel shows how she began working with the District 12 tributes during the Games . However , it is not Effie who arrive up with the saying,“May the odds be ever in your favor . “Years earlier inThe Hunger Gamestimeline , another familiar type is responsible for for first saying the phrase that would endure for decades to come in Panem .
Dr. Gaul Coined The Hunger Games' Most Iconic Phrase During The First Quarter Quell
She Provided Commentary During The 25th Hunger Games
Before Caesar Flickerman interviews each of the 48 tributes selected for the 2nd Quarter Quell , he provides a brief tone back at the 49 prior Hunger Games . During the section focalise on the first Quarter Quell , Haymitch Abernathy thinks to himself how"a relic of a woman constitute Gaul"delivered commentary throughout these Games , during which she was credited with coining the phrase,“May the odds be ever in your favor . "
Leaving Haymitch alive after Sunrise on the Reaping seems counterproductive , but President Snow ’s actions after the 50th Hunger Games make sense .
This is a reference to the villainousBallad of Songbirds and SnakescharacterDr . Volumnia Gaul . She was subservient in transforming the Games into a spectacle watched by everyone in Panem , along with mentoring Snow and drive him further down a dark path . Revealing thatThe Hunger Games ' most iconic ancestry originated with Dr. Gaul is one of legion ways thatSunrise on the Reapingacts as an in effect bridge betweenThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesand the originalHunger Gamestrilogy .
Dr. Gaul Coining This Line Makes It Even More Sinister
It Further Cements Her As A Disturbing Villain
" May the odds be ever in your favor"was always a worrisome lineage , but it palpate even more sinister roll in the hay that Dr. Gaul is the one who create it . She is the womanhood most responsible for for keeping the Games alive and ensuring they would live on for another 65 class in an even more roughshod and sadistic fashion . Dr. Gaul stack the odds against the districts and the tributes for generations to come , which makes it all the more twisted for her to say that she hopes the odds go in their favor .
24 year afterSunrise on the Reaping , Effie is still repeating Dr. Gaul ’s words that bemock and dehumanize the tributes , which allows Gaul ’s evil legacy to continue after her end .
As seen by the kindness that Effie shows the District 12 tribute , she does care about them and go through them as homo , which wee her deliverance of the line more solemn . At the same prison term , Effie is brainwash to conceive that the Hunger Games serve a nifty good and even tell Haymitch this after the crushing events that make him only the second - everDistrict 12 succeeder . 24 age afterSunrise on the Reaping , Effie is still repeating Dr. Gaul ’s row that mock and dehumanize the tributes , which countenance Gaul ’s evil legacy to retain after her end .
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