Why hunger games is better than twilight

Which person would you rather be? The dependent, emotional mess or the independent, strong leader? I think the answer is pretty obvious. The Life in Perspective board is made up of teens who write columns and features for this newspaper. Reach her at lip bayareanewsgroup. By Mercury News themerc bayareanewsgroup. As one reader tells Today. Or just read our own Kaila Hale-Stern's explanation of the books' anti-empowerment message.

Meanwhile, Katniss manages to be strong as well as emotional. Bella goes on and on about sacrifice, but Katniss makes a huge sacrifice right at the beginning of her story, and she keeps on caring about others, like Rue, even when she's in a situation where she's supposed to think only of her own survival. Katniss knows who she is, even though everybody's trying to turn her into something else — which is something I bet a lot of teens and adults can identify with.

And Katniss has to become good at pretending, to the point where she no longer knows which feelings are real. In other words, Katniss is both a better hero and a better representation of teen angst than Bella. But she's not into him, or maybe she is, but she's into Edward more anyway. Edward can make her young and beautiful forever, and make her part of his glamorous young family, while Jacob just has his Native American tribe, who live in La Push and only even turn into werewolves when vampires are around.

In the end, there's not much suspense about which of the two dudes Bella will choose. It's like Pretty in Pink all over again, and Jacob is Duckie. Meanwhile, Hunger Games also has a love triangle — but it's a lot more interesting and suspenseful. Katniss has a thing for Gale, her hot friend from District 12 who goes hunting in the woods with her. But she's convinced to pretend she's in love with her fellow District 12 Tribute Peeta, who really does love her.

And maybe she grows to love him as well — she's not even sure herself. Eventually, she grows to care more about Peeta — until something shocking and horrible happens in the third book.

Katniss' love triangle has more subtlety and real emotion, and also more surprising twists, culminating in a bittersweet ending, at best. In Twilight , there are basically vampires and werewolves. Jacob's pack has a few different splinter groups, and there are a bunch of different vampire "covens," including a scary pack of newborns that attack in Eclipse. There are also the Denali coven, who are sort of succubi but basically still just vampires.

Meanwhile, Hunger Games has some awesome creatures. In the Hunger Games where Haymitch won, there were mutated carnivorous squirrels and giant killer birds. Katniss has to contend with tracker jackers and mockingjays, not to mention horrific wolf mutations. And then in her second games, there are carnivorous orange monkeys. Breaking Dawn is completely anti climatic, nothing happens literally. And then there's the matter of the story, Hunger Games wins there as well and that's because there are actually stakes, something that drives the story, nothing really drive Twilght beyond maybe Bella's droning inner monologue.

The only thing these two books have in common is that they were a popular teen book series turned into movies. Jul 28, AM. And endless descriptions of Edward. Anya Oct 28, PM 0 votes. I found the social and political aspects of it really interesting, as well as a good story and interesting characters. However, Twilight had a huge impact on me when I read it. I have such a strong emotional connection to the books and its characters.

Twilight will stick with me the rest of my life, because it was such a huge part of my life when I was While I enjoyed The Hunger Games a lot and is somewhat apart of its fandom it didn't have the same impact on me, maybe because I was older when I read it. So yes, I do think The Hunger Games is better than Twilight from in literary sense, but either way Twilight is way more important to me.

View 1 comment. Twilight is most definitely better than the Hunger Games. I mean the quality of writing is much better in Twilight.