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Originally Posted by Redcard
Yeah, but my mom's a school teacher. She says the kids still want to be like Katniss. While I can buy the "tragic hero" lesson.. it misses.
And the movies will likely reinforce it even more in them.
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The problem is looking at suffering from the outside (even a fairly intimate portrayal as in the Hunger Games) is very different than living it. For example, we don't mind that Katniss ends up with
because we never really got to feel the loss.
Shoot, I remember reading Ender's Game when I was 13-14, and I really wanted to be Ender....
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Bill