The Selection in Four Minutes

Above is a link I found while surfing youtube. It summarizes The Selection in about four minutes using barbies. It does an alright job of summarizing the general plot although it leaves out a lot of important details. I think it may be meant as more of a comedy than a serious video. I just can't believe that people actually like this stuff and are requesting for more. It's posted by Epic Reads which is owned by HarperCollins Publishers who happened to publish The Selection. I thought that the publishing company would have done a better job of summarizing a book they published. But watch the video and tell me what you think. Am I missing the humor in this video by taking it too seriously, because it is still the internet, or am I justified in being a little upset that the book could be summarized with such poor quality?

                                           

The Selection vs. The Hunger Games

Okay, I'm pretty sure that we all finished The Selection at some point during the break so here is my opinion on the series so far. I'm going to address the on going debate about whether or not The Selection is just a no violent Hunger Games. Besides the overall structure of the plot, I don't really feel that they are alike anymore. Yes, many argue that the government is corrupt and that there is a competition and that there are castes but that's really just about it. Yet, 2/3 things I mentioned are in almost every dystopian novel. Take Divergent for example, there were castes, a competition and a corrupt government but that doesn't make up the major plot of the story, it just adds to it. In my opinion the plot in The Selection as a whole has much more emotional depth than any other dystopia I have read. The emotional appeal sets it apart from the other dystopian novels. Yes, more can argue that there was a love story in The Hunger Games and in Divergent, but that was just a subplot of the main plot. The Selection is mainly about the love story between America, Maxon, and Aspen. Any one can argue that The Selection is too similar to The Hunger Games but the set up of both of those books are the set up of any dystopian novel. In the end, The Selection is not a similar to The Hunger Games than I originally thought.