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Comparing And Differences To The Movie And The Hunger Games

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Have you seen the Hunger Games movie and read the Hunger Games book? If you’ve done both, you might have noticed some significant similarities and differences. It’s common when a book is turned into a movie to have changes and alterations. The changes can add more thrill to a movie or it could fail to depicts the authors vision. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about Katniss Everdeen lives in Panem, which has 12 districts that are forced to randomly choose one girl and boy to fight in the annual Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers in place of her beloved sister and must rely on her hunting skills and instincts to kill others to win while dealing with love. `____
To begin with, one of the biggest difference between the book and movie version is Katniss and Peeta’s friendship. In the book, their relationship is very complex. At first, Katniss pretends to be in love with Peeta to gain more sponsors and thinks Peeta is doing it for the game too. Despite that, she grows closer with Peeta and ends up falling in love with Peeta. Peeta finds out that their friendship at the beginning of the game was fake and gets mad. However, the movie puts little emphasis on their friendship. For instance, after Katniss and Peeta win, the author writes, “‘It was all for the Games,” Peeta says. ‘How you acted.’ ‘Not all of it,’ I say, tighty holding onto my flowers….I also want to tell him how much I already miss him,” (372-323).This shows the complicated relationship that they have which is

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