The first is whether strength and survival are the same thing. In other words, surviving something means you are strong. The second questions whether or not young adult fiction is too dark for its young readers, or whether these readers need to be exposed to the dark circumstances that life can bring. Roxane Gay compares Katniss in The Hunger Games to herself in a personal story to show the difference between surviving something and being strong. She also uses them to argue against Meghan Cox Gurdon's contention that young readers should not be subjected to the darkness and pain that young adult fiction usually offers. In “What We Hunger For,” Roxane uses two lyrics and a personal story to support her arguments. Although they don't seem to fit together at first, Roxane Gay puts them together to form and support her thesis. The first is the Hunger Games trilogy, which follows Katniss Everdeen as she is forced into unbearable situations, yet finds a way to overcome them and becomes even stronger for it. Gay (2014) mentions how the intensity of the trauma the characters suffered affected her and how dark and brutal the story was. But he also says that the trilogy “offers the moderate hope that anyone who survives something unbearable hungers for” (p..