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Compare And Contrast The Hunger Games And All Summer In A Day

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Comparative Essay - Carey Zimmer The Hunger Games and All Summer in a Day are NOT set in dystopian worlds. The Hunger Games and All Summer in a Day are usually described as dystopian stories, or, stories involving a dystopia. In The Hunger Games, Panem is meant to be a dystopia because of the social divide and hunger games. In All Summer in a Day, the entire planet is made to look like a dystopia due to the weather. If we take a close look at these 2 stories, and then inspect what a dystopia really is, it becomes clear that they really aren’t dystopian. A dystopia is meant to be all the problems of the modern world taken to extremes, but the societies described are arguably better than the society of our world today. More than 23 people die …show more content…

The worst problem outlined in The Hunger Games is The Hunger Games. This leads to 24 children being selected at random and then force to fight until a lone victor remains. This seems like something that would easily make a society qualify for the title of dystopia, but in the real world, thousands of child soldiers as young as eight years of age are fighting, some even on the front line. If a dystopia is a bad place, the real world is more dystopian than Panem. When it comes to All Summer in a Day, the worst problem outlined is the fact that it is raining almost all the time, with the sun coming up for 1 hour once every 7 years, which means it rains 99.998% of the time. Realistically it does rain on Venus, but not all the time. The surface temperature is beyond 400 degrees Celsius, so the rain (Which is sulphuric acid, not water) evaporates before it hits the surface, but in the story it appears to be normal, water rain, and cool enough for it to hit the surface. In the real world, we have much more than rain to worry about. We get earthquakes along fault lines, floods due to heavy rain or tsunamis, cyclones due to areas of extremely low air pressure, and bushfires due to heat or arson just to name a few. When you consider the fact that the problems in the real world are much worse than the problems in the

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