I disagree. This series is an excellent series for young girls who adore “Twilight” but it fails miserably outside of describing teenage romance/clothes/make-up.
‘This series is an excellent series for young girls who adore “Twilight” but it fails miserably outside of describing teenage romance/clothes/make-up.”
If that is all you got out of it, then you missed the point of the trilogy, which is seeking individual freedom that is denied by a tyrannical dictatorship that requires human sacrifice every year as a reminder to the oppressed districts that they lost the war of rebellion 74 years earlier.
I also recommend that you read the following article from “The American Thinker:”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_unseen_message_of_the_hunger_games.html
One line from it is: “the book series’ pro-individualism, anti-socialist/communist/totalitarianism message has thus far eluded them — but the legions of children reading the books are getting the message.” And that is not the best line in the article.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_unseen_message_of_the_hunger_games.html#ixzz1qqBhZ4mf