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submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hunger Games depicted revolution's harsh but necessary sides in a realistic way, and that elevates it above all other YA I've ever read. Granted I stopped reading YA novels after 16 but still.

Katniss has a real personality, real desires, and loses things because she (thought) she decided to lead a revolution. Only to find out that she wasn't in charge at all and only a figurehead at best, and herself became a victim of the revolution. Nonetheless the revolution was absolutely necessary.

The world of the Hunger Games is much bigger than the teenage protagonists and that's... missing in most of young adult fiction.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

That's why The Hunger Games was successful I believe. They treated the audience not as children, but as adults who can consider complex ideas. They just want to read about people their age. Most YA considers their audience as little more than hormone filled idiots.