#the idea that the book had actual real rebels and the protagonist wasn't really a rebel had soooo much potential | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

zevranunderstander · 11 months ago

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A thing ive been thinking about for years and years and years is. The Selection (you know those really mid hunger games ripoff books that everyone keeps joking about) has a core premise that is actually quite different and unique from hunger games and you could have gone off the hinges with this if you weren't an absolute centrist coward, with milquetoast, unreflected politics. but now I can't write this book that I am seeing in this story because I can't just rip off the premise of the book, you know??

#myposts #you know. a dirt poor protagonist who can climb the social ladder and be the exception to rise out of her social class #but for her own success all she does and needs to do is in direct support of the monarchy thats oppressing her #and like. the book is so 'theres no problem with the system :)#it's just individual bad people :) but ugh i guess we can do a constitutional monarchy instead :/'#but. there is SO MUCH in this story you can explore. like.#would it be morally wrong of the protagonist to participate #given that she can win and overturn the monarchy. would that do more than just refusing to participate and leaving it to the upper classes #and like. the idea of a show like The Bachelor. but for royalists. like i think this is SO believable publicity-wise #the idea that the book had actual real rebels and the protagonist wasn't really a rebel had soooo much potential #like. the book was so bad with this though lmaoo #for reference i read these when i was 14 or so #but the choice between the 2 love interests could have been class counciousness #vs. hope of becoming powerful enough in the system to affect change #you could have reflected if the protagonist actually HAD any class consciousness or if she didn't mind as long as SHE wasn't porr #*poor #but really the book had like one really obvious flaw and that was that the message was supposed to be #'you cam affect change while working IN the system!! you just need to be resilient' or whatever #and like. for that they designed the system in a way that thats actually possible #and i think that's so silly because like. yeah. this girl can change the system with True Love that connects rich and poor people #but like. irl the system IS unfair and like. the book was so judgy at the rebels for not working in the system lmaooo #also i dont know if i remember this correctly but i think the book ends with them abolishing the caste system #but. like. the underlying socioeconomic classes still exist???#i dont remember the sequel books at all i think they tried to critique the rule of the protagonists of the og books #but it also was pretty shallow and sucked lol #like if you were really bold with this. this could be succession. this could be the fucking sopranos #maybe i sound insane but i genuinely have this vision for the story #i know its a book made for children. but what if the protagonist wasnt all that much of a good person actually

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