Hunger Games Trilogy discussion

How would the books have been different if Katniss hadn't volunteered? What course do you think the books would have taken?

it would be a lot different

Oh, yeah, it definitely would.

would she die? we will never know

I don't think that Suzanne Collins would have let her die, most likely for the shock factor. I mean, here's this little, helpless girl. She should lose, right? Wrong. She wins. It'd be a good twist. And I can imagine her and Rue teaming up, and Peeta wanting to take good care of her for Katniss, and...well, I think you get the point.

yeah i just wanted to be dramatic lol the main character wouldnt die

I don't know, in some books, the main character might die (although I find that utterly pointless).

yeah i agree and that is true

Agreed. Perhaps she would die, but Katniss in the next book would be chosen in the QQ (it would be different) and the rebellion would still happen, though very differently.

true true

I don't think that Suzanne Collins would be able to find a way around Prim not dying, to be honest. Katniss said in THG that she was distraught when Katniss killed an animal, so she probably would not be able to kill a person. She'd probably be the sort of one who would die in the first day by the careers, unfortunately.

Probably

Leah wrote: "How would the books have been different if Katniss hadn't volunteered? What course do you think the books would have taken?"

I think it would've been cool if she'd kept it in KAtniss' perspective, and described how she saw the Hunger Games play out. Inevitably Prim would've died, and Peeta would've won, and than Katniss would get really angry, the rebellion ensues, Peeta and Gale triangle is still going on, and Katniss would've married Gale because she didn't owe Peeta anything. Ta-da!