Gentle as Mockingjays: Haymitch as a Holy Spirit Figure in The Hunger Games

Many of us in Panem Eagly we wait for the new Hunger games Suzanne Collins prequel, Dawn in the harvestthat covers fundamental moments in the background history of the favorite height of all energetic I would bite, Haymith Abernathy. This new installment is Sure to Place Haymith at the Foreefront of the Story, Showing An Even Heroic Side To The Gruff Outdo BOKKS OF HISBOKS OF HIS The hunger games Trilogy.

While a lot has been said about the Christological presence of the two main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, it can be said that Katniss in his self-shared and the struggle for justice, but an honest overall can be said uncomfortable. He thought that Haymmitch provides less presence of Christ in He Hunger gamesIt could be argued that acts in many ways as a figure of the Holy Spirit for the two protagonists while fulfilling their sacrifice trips to freedom and love.

Our defender

To establish this point, we must review some verses that discuss the presence and work of the Holy Spirit of Jesus’ words. Cryptically, Christ tells the apostles at the Last Supper in John 14:16 That will leave them, but “I will send you a defender.” At the time, this seems to provide little comfort to them, and the confiring events of Good Friday provide little comfort. It is not until they receive this spirit in the form of Jesus’ breath in John 20:22 that peace returns.

In the series, Haymith stands as the only survivor, winner of the annual hunger games of his hometown. With this distinction comes the mentor’s responsibility for the two taxes that must compete every year. Haymmitch is the only mentor discussed in the books, which makes it archetypal for the series. He is the main person to give any child advice to taxes. In fact, Katniss quickly learns that “Haymithch can be the different convention between your life and your death!” In the unexpected way that God’s grace tends to operate, it is often about displacement appearances that “Haymitch is actually determined to stay alive.” While it is not an immediately parallel parallel to the Holy Spirit, who can allow the martyrdom of God’s servants, there is a clear defense of what is better in both figures.

Mentors advise their tributes as part of their role. This advice could include survival skills for sand. However, it is established that the most important council is the one that ensures sponsors. The rich “invest” in stronger taxes are more likely to win, so the materials can have the duration of the games. In addition to the taxes themselves, it is his mentor who helps to ensure this support: “Once we are in the sand, [Haymitch is] Everything we have. “He would be the one to highlight the abilities of the taxes, while they cannot communicate with those outside the arena.

The more you can impress, or enchant, the right people will be the probabilities. There are times when Katniss, who is not as an expert in his show skills as in survival skills, is saved by Haymitch’s actions: when Katniss was “really in danger of crying, but fortunately Haymitch chooses this time to assume the stage” to congratulate her. Later, he diverts the attention of her when “as if it were the example, Haymith falls on the stage and foggedly.” These moments show unexpected support in an unlikely way they could have damaged their possibilities later in the games. This mentor lawyer not only for their tributes, but will guide them to improve their possibilities both in the games and after the games are complete.

Teach you all things

One of the concerns that the apostles had at the Last Supper, as Jesus commissioned them with the new effort to share the Gospel, was where their support would come from. While these students had the leg that followed it for approximately three years, they knew that the mysteries that had shared the leg with them would require more than one life of wisdom. Fortunately, Jesus described how this “defender, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you” (John 14:26). The Holy Spirit continued to guide the apostles, as evidenced through the book of the Apostles’ Acts, and is the divine author of the same sacred writings. Even consideration of the entire division among Christians regarding the doctrine in Christian history, almost all of them would at least add the guide of the Holy Spirit in the composition of the same Scriptures.

One is difficult to find a part of any or He Hunger games Books where a character who discusses a child’s strategy does not mention Haymitch’s advice. There are times when you give it directly: “I will tell you exactly how I want you to play it.” Most of the time it was thought, it is the main character that recalls “what Haymitch said …” or ironically refer “to the stupid instruction of Haymitch” and “direction.” That is why just after the games is Haymith’s voice that Katniss is looking for when he enters a war zone: “Haymith [is] In my head full time. “Just as Christians should pay attention to the guide of the Holy Spirit given to the Church, Katniss would benefit from the guidance of his mentor.

Like the Holy Spirit, he often directs through other ducts, Haymith advises Katniss who does “exactly what the stylists say [her] do. “It also acts as a force of reconciliation between the two main characters temporarily separated, since it is the” conversation with Haymitch “of Katniss that moves it to” try to take the first tentative step in the direction of Peeta.

Wise as snakes

The last example is not so obvious on the surface, but the closest research clarifies things a bit. When Jesus warns his disciples about the effect his ministry will have, he gives them some moving tips. He tells them that they are “wise as snakes” and “simple as pigeons” (Matthew 10:16). One would not associate snakes with the Holy Spirit, but this advice is in the context of being taken before the authorities and making “the spirit” speak through them when they are in court. Katniss undergoes a similar set of tests after she is voluntary as a tribute. Before the taxes are brought to the sand for combat, they are publicly interviewed so that they can connect with the audience that will see the butcher shop. The taxes are in front of a camera from the moment they are selected to their violent deaths, and what Katniss learns after their inquisitive victory is that the cameras never disappear and the games never, for the winners.

It is at the moment that Haymmitch and his serpentine Wise advice, often acts as support to keep her alive and rope. One of the best examples of this cannitude is when he tells him that “he only remember is the enemy,” that they were “the last words of Haymitch advice” for Katniss before she was the second games. Is in book two, FireWhen the story becomes much bigger than a competition, and this feeling also echoes at a crucial moment in the third book. Haymith gives apparently contradictory advice in the first book because it is an inconvenient moment. His wisdom is shown again when “Hayitch grabs my wrist as if anticipating my next movement.” Later, this wisdom is described with forecast when “as if anticipating my reaction, Haymith is by my side.” While Katniss and Haymith often argue, then he acknowledges: “I have missed Haymitch.” I thought it definitely does not qualify as a soft dove, its wisdom is cunning.

Spiritual shorthand

Christians may not have the voice of the Holy Spirit whispering in their headset as “Haymith’s voice is in my headset”, or as choosing in 1 kings 19:12. However, Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19) And this Holy Spirit speaks like Hey to Philip in Acts 8:29. This spirit is not only capable of relationship, but wants a relationship and seeks the good of the Christian when the Christian is fighting in a world full of spiritual forces of evil. This defender provides less in the form of direct confrontation and more in the form of empowerment and healing, so that the Christian can participate in this struggle and grow in faith and charity.

Haymith Abernathy, given as a mentor of the two young taxes with little hope of success, gave support and guidance while surviving the unsurpassed probabilities. This continuous presence helped them as their struggles are intense and their intensive mission through He Hunger games Series.

Christians would do well to pay attention to the reminder that Haymith gives Katniss in the third book, when conventional hunger games had finished but the new battle: “I am still your mentor.” Just as they could “speak in a kind of shorthand,” Christians must also develop a similar familiarity with our defender and guide in prayer. Haymith’s wisdom is intelligent, but imperfect. Hello “love” powerful, but it is stunted. Christians have their own mentor, guide and lawyer whose love is perfect and whose wisdom sees everything. That entruned us accordingly.