Gale and The Love Triangle: The Hunger Games’ Greatest Flaw
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(Spoilers for all three Hunger Games books are below).
The Hunger Games is one of popular fiction’s greatest contributions to the general public’s awareness of the corruption of government and the lies of media. These are serious, and still relevant issues, that are explored in Suzanne Collins’s young adult series. They’re the issues that make this series relevant for everyone that reads these books, and not just the teenagers they were marketed for.
While the exploration of these issues may contribute to the Hunger Games’ greatest merits, the series also has its flaws, and no flaw is greater in this trilogy than the Peeta, Gale, and Katniss love triangle. Sadly this is something that should have been avoided all together as it undermines all the serious issues mentioned above. Unfortunately the teenybopper love saga still made its way into a prominent part of the side story. Here are the reasons why it should have never have been, and what could have been done in its place.
