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Compare And Contrast Animal Farm And The Hunger Games

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George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games have more similarities than one might think. Both pieces have a horribly corrupt government with a single leader getting the best of the best, whether the civilians know it or not. Dystopian fiction tends to follow a pattern. Among the typical motifs are crisis, solution, charismatic leader, and the making of an enemy. Dystopian fiction also always has a visionary, or one to oppose the oppression. While, Old Major and Katniss Everdeen aren’t easily compared, the similarities in their goals really do bring up a good point. Old Major was the inspiration for the totalitarian leader, and Katniss was the one who attempted to stop one. Both had very opposite roles in the books they took part in, but both had a similar goal in mind: to make a better community.
A crisis gives those who are unhappy with the current lifestyle the opportunity to make a stand, and both Old Major and Katniss Everdeen saw the issue at hand with their government. They were getting starved to death and were constantly afraid of being killed. In Animal Farm, being animals-living on a farm-automatically puts you at risk towards sudden death. In The Hunger Games, you could be selected as tribute to be put into the Games at any point within the age limits. There are many more issues in Animal Farm but all of them have to do with the power given to the higher classes, or powers. The same goes for The Hunger Games. Even once both Katniss and Peeta both won the Games in the first book and the rebels escape from them in the second, the third book is all about the conflict between the powers given to the leaders in District 13. Katniss couldn’t have foreshadowed the way her rebellion would fan out, just as Old Major wouldn’t have known his own farm would end up possibly worse than before with their ill-conceived solutions. Old Major and Katniss Everdeen had a vision to change the way things are with their government. Though neither saw it happen as they expected, they both had a solution to attempt to fix the problem. Old Major thought a rebellion by chasing Jones off the farm would get rid of having a totalitarian leader. Katniss thought that rebelling against the Gamemakers would

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