Comparing Female Protagonists In The Hunger Games And Alex Rider

Katniss in the Hunger Games is portrayed as a strong-willed, brave, strong character. This is not how female protagonists are usually portrayed in novels or movies. Female protagonists are usually the damsel’s in distress, and the male protagonists will save the females. It is the same case in the novel Divergent. I this novel the main character is Tris, she is a brave, strong willed character, just like Katniss. The two novels, Hunger Games and Divergent, were both written by females, both of the female protagonists in the books have traits like male protagonists. And in the book Alex Rider, the male protagonists has traits of a normal male protagonist. Some people may think that the gender of the author does not affect the story in any way, but I think it does.

Katniss Everdeen takes care of her family, you could say she is the head of her family. Ever since her father died in a mining accident, she has kept her family alive. You might think that the mother would be the head of the family, but her mother is in a state of depression ever since her husband has died. She hunts every single day to feed her family, she also puts her name in the reaping for tesserae. The tesserae is a supply of grain and

He is the main character in the Alex Rider series. This series is written by Anthony Horowitz, a male author. The traits of Alex Rider are what you would expect from a male protagonist from an action book, brave, daring, strong, smart etc… He always saves the world when something bad is about to happen, which is very typical from a male protagonist in an spy novel. In the first book, Stormbreaker, Herod Sayle(a tech mogul) has released a revolutionary computer. Turns out that Sayle has loaded the computers with a biological virus. Unfortunately Alex is caught before he can notify the spy agency, therefore he has only two hours to stop Sayle, and of course he stops Sayle from activating the virus and saves the