![]() ![]() The formula is simple, satisfying, and omnipresent - or almost omnipresent. Their particular story is the story of history, and their world revolves around them. Harry and Ender and Katniss aren't just the stars of a book or a series they're the stars of everything. In each of these cases, their powers and abilities - magic, intelligence, strength - are important, but even more important is how much each of them personally matters. After she volunteers as tribute in The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen quickly becomes the key symbol of her world's resistance movement against totalitarian oppression. From even before his birth, Ender from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is engineered to save earth from alien invasion. Harry Potter thinks he's a despised orphan, only to learn he's the only hope of an entire realm of magic and wonder. One of the great pleasures of young adult literature is that you get to imagine yourself as the most important person in the world. ![]()
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