Different Perspectives Chapter 17
Author's Note: I do not own The Hunger Games
School Essay on the 17th Hunger Games. By Fox Everdeen
The 17th Hunger Games was a Hunger Games that took place in A.D.D 17. The Head Gamemaker was Coriolanus Snow, and for the 17th he introduced the Training Scores; that year, the Tributes that scored a 9 was Monty Heyer of District 1 and the pair from District 2, Drusa Lansbury and Antares Mayot. Unfortunately for Drusa and Antares, their Training scores did not see them escape the Bloodbath, as both were killed by Bailey Thornton, the District 7 Female. Monty and two other Tributes, Flora Carmichael of District 9 and Wilbert Cantwell of District 10, were what "Hunger Games" Historians dubbed "Legacy Tributes", which was basically Tributes related to a previous Tribute; in fact, it was said that by the time the 74th Hunger Games rolled around, at least 60% of Reaped or Volunteered Tributes were "Legacy Tributes". On the fifth day of the Games, the Tributes had to contend with a flock of Magpie Mutts, which resulted in three deaths: Wilbert and three females from Districts 3, 8 and 4. While the Magpie Mutts was causing a trail of chaos and slaughter, a fight broke out between five Tributes; as a result of the fight Topaz Hirst and Bailey were the only survivors, Topaz accidentally killing her District Partner Monty during the Melee. By the end of Day 7, only one Tribute would be left: Bailey Thornton.
Bailey's life post-games would see her Mentor, and she would become close friends with Dinah West. One Tribute she Mentored was Rachel Oakley, who would become a Victor herself. During the 57th Hunger Games an assassin shot at a group of Victors, killing three: Dinah West, Imogen Roosa and Eric Vega; Bailey herself was injured, but three years after the assassination, she would succumb to her injuries, becoming the fifth known Victor to die after their Games, after Virgil Barde, Dinah, Imogen and Eric, with Horsa Georges outliving her by six months. Her death would affect Rachel, and as the 74th Hunger Games ended, Rachel died because of alcoholism. In A.D.D 80, the Arena where Bailey's Games took place in was destroyed, and a memorial was erected to Bailey was placed. The Memorial was later joined by another one, listing the names of the twenty-three children that died in the forest. It's said that Johanna Mason, last survivor of the District 7 Victors, would visit the site in her old age, mainly as the Arena reminded her of the Ancient Woodland her own Games took place in. Johanna, like the remaining six Victors that survived the Rebellion, are no longer with us, dying of old age in A.D.D 149. But Bailey's legacy remained in Siskiyou, the place she once grew up in, even being commemorated in the Victors' Forest.
Fox lives two centuries after the Mockingjay Rebellion, and I started this chapter on Saturday. I was determined to get this chapter done before the new year. Yes, Rachel will be a Victor in the near future, though you'll have to wait until 2025 before you see her.