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    Hunger Games Divergent

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    Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and Tris Prior from Divergent are both kickass female protagonists who are motivated by survival. Katniss volunteers for the Hunger Games to save her sister, and must find a way to survive by eliminating the other tributes. Tris leaves her faction to join the more aggressive Dauntless, but if she fails she will be homeless. Both Katniss and Tris take on roles as symbols of rebellion, fighting to improve their societies and end oppressive systems. They develop from focusing on survival to actively working to create a better future.

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    Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and Tris Prior from Divergent are both kickass female protagonists who are motivated by survival. Katniss volunteers for the Hunger Games to save her sister, and must find a way to survive by eliminating the other tributes. Tris leaves her faction to join the more aggressive Dauntless, but if she fails she will be homeless. Both Katniss and Tris take on roles as symbols of rebellion, fighting to improve their societies and end oppressive systems. They develop from focusing on survival to actively working to create a better future.

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    Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and Tris Prior from Divergent are both kickass female protagonists who are motivated by survival. Katniss volunteers for the Hunger Games to save her sister, and must find a way to survive by eliminating the other tributes. Tris leaves her faction to join the more aggressive Dauntless, but if she fails she will be homeless. Both Katniss and Tris take on roles as symbols of rebellion, fighting to improve their societies and end oppressive systems. They develop from focusing on survival to actively working to create a better future.

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    Hunger Games Divergent

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    Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and Tris Prior from Divergent are both kickass female protagonists who are motivated by survival. Katniss volunteers for the Hunger Games to save her sister, and must find a way to survive by eliminating the other tributes. Tris leaves her faction to join the more aggressive Dauntless, but if she fails she will be homeless. Both Katniss and Tris take on roles as symbols of rebellion, fighting to improve their societies and end oppressive systems. They develop from focusing on survival to actively working to create a better future.

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    TOPIC 3- Protagonist

    It is breathtaking that both adventure thrillers in young adult genre is lead by kickass girls. 

    HUNGER GAMES DIVERGENT


     Katniss from the Hunger Games is  Tris Prior trying to figure out which faction
    motivated by survival instinct. Katniss she belongs to. Tris leave the selfless
    volunteer her little beloved sister Prim in a abnegation and join the more aggressive
    game of survival. She has to find a way to dauntless. Therefore, her internal
    survive by winning the game through motivation is the goal of being dauntless.
    eliminating all the other tributes, leaving Whereby her external motivation is her
    herself as the only victor. survival and her home. If she fail to
     Katniss even transcends such roles by achieve her goal of becoming dauntless,
    agreeing to be the Mockingjay, a gender- she will then be homeless.
    less symbol of the rebellion and a creature  Her initial uncertainty reflects the
    which is not supposed to exist at all uncertainty of a situation in which her
     Katniss has internalized the national death will not be very effectual, whereas
    mentality of distrust and suspicion. her later confidence reflects the
    Growing up under the threat of constant assurance of a better future for other
    surveillance, Katniss learned to keep her people. Tris has literally fulfilled not only
    thoughts to herself, fearing for her own a journey to finding self and identity but
    safety and that of her family if her criticism also her destiny to be truly selfless and
    were to be overheard. courageous. She is, ultimately, indeed the
     What the trilogy ultimately shows is that “instrument of [her] own destruction”
    these different Blokker 50 performances, (Insurgent 145), just as she always
    albeit forced, have enabled her to wanted to be.
    reconcile the different parts of herself: in  Tris’s journey is one of reconciling her
    the end, she is still a survivor and still a Abnegation and Dauntless identities, and
    girl who is protective of those she loves. eventually accepting that her Divergence
     Katniss ends the trilogy as she truly is an asset. Throughout the trilogy, she
    begins it: as an intelligent woman who journeys from feeling defined – and
    understands the inequality of hunger and confined – by the faction system to
    deprivation, the weight of sacrifice, and realizing that the people whom she is
    the importance of never underestimating committed to ultimately define her most.
    the power of a girl spectacularized by
    fashion, costume, and a good
    performance. (

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     they respond to crises and act in order to improve their societies. As the symbolic head of a
    rebellion, Katniss leads the districts out of their enslavement and helps to establish a new, more
    democratic government. Similarly, Tris fights to save the factions from destroying each other
    and is crucial in taking down the faction system and ending her society’s position as the object
    of a social experiment controlled by outside forces.
     Both Katniss and Tris develop from fighting primarily for their own survival to rebelling against
    the system and actively fighting for a different kind of life.

    The final message of both books thus appears to be that readers must fight hard for what they want, as
    Katniss and Tris did; we must fight for what we believe in and for what we desire out of life, for our
    hopes and dreams.

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