Both in The Hunger Games and Divergent there are female protagonists, in The Hunger Games it is Katniss Everdeen and in Divergent it is Tris Prior. These two heroines have similar and different qualities such as: their physical appearance, where they live, their families, who they trust and who they end up falling in love with. Tris and Katniss also go through extremely difficult events, but these events transform them both into stronger, wiser, and more individualistic young women. While going through many difficult circumstances, they both undergo some changes in their appearance and way of thinking. . When Katniss enters the games she trusts no one and has no real friends, she has very little muscle and is quite skinny, but she is good with a bow. Once the games begin she becomes more aware of her surroundings, learns many tricks to survive, lowers her guard and allows people to help her and become her friends. Katniss has long brown hair throughout the novel and is of average height, Katniss is also called "the girl on fire" throughout the novel. Although Tris also has long blonde hair but is short, so their length is about the same, they both don't really trust people until later in their stories, and they also become better leaders. Tris had almost no muscle in the Dauntless compound, but once trained by Four, she gains a lot of muscle. Everyone sees Tris as a "little girl or a corpse" but what they don't realize is how dangerous she can be, she is very intelligent and sees through people's crap, she can tell what is true or not, Tris can do that because she is different , is divergent. Being divergent means you have multiple ways of thinking, you are not just selfish or intelligent... middle of paper... you don't fit into any of those you are factionless. Once the choosing ceremony arrives, Tris chooses Dauntless and from then on lives among the other transverse Dauntless and the rest of the Dauntless. Both women live in communities where people are divided, are divided into certain sections to do specific jobs, or are separated by personality traits. Likewise both Katniss and Tris want to leave their communities, Tris feels like she doesn't belong, she wants to be free and she wants a little more excitement in her life. Even though Katniss wants to leave so that her sister or herself does not have to participate in the games, she is tired of the way the government is run and wants to be free. Also, both of these novels are set in the United States of America, but both novels are set in the future, so maybe these two girls could have been friends..