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Comparing The Divergent And The Hunger Games

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Today The Hunger Games and the Divergent will be going head to head and will answer the question of how writers manipulate readers through a distinctive styles and use of language. Both award winning novels will be unpacked and examined with great detail to explain which book manipulates their readers better.

The purpose of the lecture today will be to compare The Hunger Games and the Divergent. The lecture will show in depth how the authors manipulate their readers through multiple topics including information about both the texts and the writers and an analysis on both the writers style and the effect on the audience. This will be done through an analysis of language in both texts starting with a competitive comparison about the text itself. …show more content…

After proving that she was a talented children’s television writer, Suzanne Collins published her debut book called Gregor the Overlander which released in September 2003. Suzanne graduated high school in 1980 and enrolled into university where she graduated un 1985 as a double major in theater and telecommunications as she then went on to achieve her master’s degree in dramatic writing, Explaining part success if The Hunger Games. After graduate school Suzanne Collins wrote sever television programs for children which caught the attention on James Proimos who hired her as head writer of WB children’s program, though James Proimos was a massive fan with Suzanne Collins writing it was him who urged Collins to try writing books.

Veronica Roth was born August 19, 1988 in New York, but was raised in Chicago. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota for one year and then transferred to Northwestern University, in Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern in 2010 with a degree in creative writing. graduated with a degree in creative writing. Divergent was her debut novel, written during winter break of her senior year at Northwestern and published in 2011. Divergent is the first book in an acclaimed Young Adult series, followed by sequels Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant

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