Thread: Discussion: The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
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Old 02-17-2012, 11:14 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by whitearrow View Post
They aren't children's novels. The Hobbit is a children's novel. The YA market is aimed at teenagers, and IMO it's great to see YA books with themes and ideas in them.
Okay, let me rephrase then.

These are YA books? (And if they are YA books, why are they on 6th grade reading lists?! 12 years old is NOT young adult)

What themes are in here? Other than, war sucks? All I see is a girl being told that no matter what happens, she'll be involved in a love triangle, and her life will suck for fighting the system.

Maybe I'm just blind, but all Kat got for fighting the system was
Spoiler:
the worst husband, nearly convicted of a capital offense, a dead sister, an empty shell of a life, and near suicidal depression.


If you leave the third book out, and rewrite it, and go off the first two books.. I can see there being a lot of good themes to go with. Empowering themes. But the second you put that third book in there and count it as part of the trilogy, you've basically ruined whatever the first two books had set up.
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