Katniss Everdeen, heroine of The Hunger Games, is spiky and hard to like; but her qualities are so much more admirable than Twilight’s mopey vampire-lover Bella
A page into The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen talks about love. She once tried to drown her sister’s cat in a bucket, but now she feeds him entrails from the prey she hunts, and he’s stopped hissing at her: “Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”
Suzanne Collins’s 16-year-old heroine is hard as nails. And hard to like. She’s tough, hostile, calculating – and lethal. The trilogy is set in a dystopian future America where children are forced to kill each other on television to entertain the rich and powerful. When Katniss volunteers for the games in place of her sister, she knows nice people don’t win. But she doesn’t care about nice; she’d rather be brutal, and survive
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Suzanne Collins’s 16-year-old heroine is hard as nails. And hard to like. She’s tough, hostile, calculating – and lethal. The trilogy is set in a dystopian future America where children are forced to kill each other on television to entertain the rich and powerful. When Katniss volunteers for the games in place of her sister, she knows nice people don’t win. But she doesn’t care about nice; she’d rather be brutal, and survive
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