Comments on: The Hunger Games https://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/2012/05/the-hunger-games/ Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:24:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Philip https://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/2012/05/the-hunger-games/#comment-367 Thu, 31 May 2012 04:53:41 +0000 http://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/?p=158#comment-367 Thanks for your thoughts guys.

Gin, why did you figure you’d never read the books?

DW, it isn’t that she made an abhorrent choice that bothers me so much. It’s that I find that choice so completely at odds with who her characters is and has been built up all series long. It’s like a different person was suddenly introduced. Alongside that, because that decision is so drastically apart from her character, there is no monologue about the magnitude of that choice where there should be.

]]> By: Virginia https://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/2012/05/the-hunger-games/#comment-364 Mon, 21 May 2012 07:55:10 +0000 http://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/?p=158#comment-364 I enjoyed reading your thoughts, since you actually read the books. I just read a synopsis and figured I probably wouldn’t be able to handle the books or the movie. It’s been great to hear opinions from others – positive or negative, and to get a glimpse of their reasons and reactions.

]]> By: Daniel West https://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/2012/05/the-hunger-games/#comment-363 Sun, 20 May 2012 20:45:58 +0000 http://www.lifeofphil.com/blog/?p=158#comment-363 I think you’re right. Katniss as a character was broken in that she didn’t always make the right, ideal choice. I think that allowance by the author to have Katniss make poor decisions that show she didn’t learn from her own experience makes for a thought provoking ending. Too often, the main character, if it is a “good guy”, will always make the ethical decision in the end. I appreciate that in this book, written for youth whose ethics are still developing, that we have a main character who makes such an abhorrent choice. I have noticed that in western culture, it is often considered true that whatever the good guy does is good, because he is the good guy, and whatever the bad guy does is bad. The action itself does not make the character good or bad, but his designation makes the actions good or bad. For an example, look at pro wrestling. The good guy characters will be cheered on by the crowds for doing the same thing that, if done by a villain, will cause the crowd to boo. Perhaps the nebulous nature of Katniss’s decisions will help young readers to learn how to self evaluate, without the bias of a belief in personal goodness.

Oh, and I also agree on the Peeta/Gale issue.

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