Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Sunrise on the Reaping.Sunrise on the Reaping introduces a wide range of compelling new characters to the world of The Hunger Games. While the protagonist, Haymitch Abernathy, is a character that readers already know well, he is surrounded by many new faces at this point in The Hunger Games timeline. This is true both in District 12 and in the Capitol, where he is only one of 48 tributes chosen to fight to the death during the 50th Hunger Games, known as the second Quarter Quell.