Setting and the Worst Thing about my book: Hunger Games

So I'm reading the Hunger Games again, and this time, I'm going to deeply analyze it.

The setting of the novel has been made very clear. Katniss made sure to emphasize it as much as possible, as the setting is of utmost importance to the story of her misfortune. She lives in "Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. He lists... the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. The result was Panem,ashining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace abd proseperity to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games" (Collins 18). As you can clearly see, Katniss elaborates with great sarcasm about the current predicament of her district. Which I would have no problem with, if she would just stop waving her misfortune around in your face.

Katniss should be a character that I sympathize with. And I've tried to be sympathetic. I really have. But there's something about her that really just makes it really hard to feel bad for this girl. Maybe it's because of the way she whines about the unfairness of the Capitol all the time. Which is fine, the first few times, but after the tenth time, it gets pretty old. Like, I get it. Your life sucks. But so does everyone else's, but you dont see them moping around all the time. And also, just the convenience of Katniss's predicament. She just happens to be lucky enough to have the guts to volunteer for her sister, the experience in the woods that just happens to coincide with the arena that year, and Peeta the adorable bread boy in love with her. Speaking of which, she barely makes an effort to even hide her disdain for the lovesick buffoon.

The Hunger Games is a good book, with a good plot and an interesting setting. Just the main character is unfortunate, depressing, and whiny, and I really wish that Suzanne Collins ight have written from the perspective of a different person.