"Sunrise on the Reaping" by Suzanne Collins, a Hunger Games prequel, centers on the 50th annual Hunger Games, where Haymitch Abernathy, a young man from District 12, is drafted as a tribute. The story unfolds as Haymitch, alongside three other District 12 tributes, is forced to fight for survival in the Games, a brutal and deadly arena where the Capitol exercises control over the districts. The reaping, the process of selecting tributes, is the event that sets the story in motion, marking the beginning of Haymitch's journey and the beginning of the Hunger Games