By Lisa Goudy
Comparisons can serve a purpose, but sometimes they aren’t fair.
This applies to real life scenarios and to the world of fiction, including books, television and movies. It’s fair to compare
something on a per capita basis between cities. It’s fair to compare systems of government and how they work differently.
It’s even fair to compare similar genres of books, TV and movies.
These comparisons, however, stop being useful when you compare something to something else and evaluate what you think of
it based solely on the comparison. That isn’t fair.
I have read a fair amount of reviews for the new movie release, Divergent. All of the comparisons, even some in the marketing, have pitted it up against the popular series, The Hunger Games.
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