The Hunger Games Series vs. Divergent Series
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Re: The Hunger Games Series vs. Divergent Series
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I think The Hunger Games is far superior, I know a lot of people show malice towards it because of taking the idea of kids murdering each other from Battle Royale. I think it's a bit ridiculous to hate on a novel that uses a concept. Almost every book has one part or another that is unoriginal. It's about how they interpret that idea that is important.
THG is a much more raw and realistic novel in terms of emotions and the mental effects of war on a person. Katniss experiences intense PTSD throughout the books because of the games.
So many YA fiction novels never address the mental impact murder can have on a person. THG does a great job showing classism, the horrors of war and even propaganda.
I enjoyed the Divergent series until the last book. It felt very rushed and didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Fun story but didn't really make me think a lot about it afterwards. Whereas THG did.
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I love both, Hunger Games and Divergent series. I loved them the moment I watched its movie adaptations. I love the characters and the settings. Both authors created fantastic worlds. It's just amazing.
I can't choose between the two.
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Suzanne Collins did a wonderful job of making the reader walk into a different world with war and different challenges of learning about human rights. I know that most of my friends do enjoy the Hunger Games a lot.
On the other hand, Veronica Roth, the author of the Divergent series gave the reader a chance to experience a world where being different (Divergent) isn't respected. Although I wasn't really excited about how Tris, a weak character in the beginning was the main character, I could feel what she felt on these harsh journeys. Something that I do wish Veronica did was to not end the series with Allegiant and Tris dying from saving her brother who she didn't owe anything to. Tobias also falls in love with Christina, Tris's friend and that part is a bit depressing for readers who enjoy Tris and Tobias together.
Overall though, I personally can't choose between both series since they are both full of exciting and morally special adventures.
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With THG I really enjoyed all of the books and have read and listened to all of them several times. The parts of the books that I enjoyed the most was probably when she was in the games. For some reason I just found it really interesting to know what would happen and to see how she would react. Overall my favourite was the second games as in the first games it took her a while to figure out how to act and then only when her ally had been killed she knew she would kill. However in her second games she comes out fighting right away and doesn't hesitate to kill if they threaten Peeta.
I didn't really enjoy the last book as much althought that is only because I think way too many characters died. I know it sounds controversial with me saying previously that I liked the main character dying but in the last book I had the feeling that the author just chose people at random to die which made you lose that feeling of sorrow as I don't even know which people died because it was just so many of them.
Everything being said both Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth are amazing authors and have written brilliant books and everything about is purely my opinion.
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