Comparison Of Divergent And The Hunger Games

Both the Hunger Games and The Road are two books set in the same type of environment of being poor, explored choices of humans facing a test of humanity, impacted by human modernization and technology and emotional power. We will explore the different themes and compare the logic between the pages.

Dystopian films and books have become popular over the past few years. These tend to reflect the way in which society could possibly soon turn if expecting extremes. Dystopian literature and media also tend to have utopian elements as well. While the societies in these works are strict and controlling, they do offer something that our society could possibly benefit from. Divergent has this element. The population is broken up into five factions that represent the different types of people in society and separate those who would fight easily due to their personal morals. The Hunger Games on the other hand (when modern society crumbled) they punished their citizens for fighting the government. While yes there was a chance for riches in the Hunger Games, it took risking your life to get it. In addition, if one did win the Hunger Games they would have an extremely easy life due to riches and a free luxury house. Divergent does not have this part, as its utopian aspect is the fact different ideals are separated from each other. Utopian literature is a reflection that is a perceived direction society may go. In these stories, mirrors are a device used to symbolically state the universe of the film is a reflection not a reality.

My two novels, Divergent and The Maze Runner, have many similarities that I would like to discuss. Firstly, both novels focused on being thrust into a brand new world that the characters were not used to. Thomas(The Maze Runner protagonist)started off the book with him waking up inside of a cargo box, traveling upwards at an incredibly high speed, and with only the memory of his name. When Tris decided to join the Dauntless, she immediately had to adapt and change, from jumping from trains and buildings to fighting someone until submission or decommission. To add onto that, despite being both unfamiliar with their new lives, they were able to adapt fairly quickly with Tris being first in the second and third round of initiation, and

Dystopia is a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

While both The Hunger Games and Divergent are dystopian series with female leads that rebel and lose family, in Divergent the characters have more choice in their destiny while in the Hunger Games they live in fear of their future.

A common answer to a question people are always debating over is whether the book or the movie is better. So which one is better, the Divergent book or the Divergent movie? When comparing and contrasting the Divergent book and the movie based off of the book, you notice there are some features that are the same, and some features that are different. Some examples of these features are the details, the process, and the accuracy.

The book I read for this first independent reading assignment is Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. This novel showed a dystopian world, in which books have been banned outright, and are being burned by the firemen. This work of fiction possessed many elements that had been shown in other works of literature that I had worked with in the past, though it also possessed definite differences, specifically Lord of The Flies, Ender's Game, and finally The Hunger Games.

One of the hardest things for a director to do is to turn a book into a movie. There is a fine line between keeping the movie just like the book, and by barely crossing that line you can end up making a completely different vision than the book has set out for you. There are also many viewers out there that will completely hate the movie if it is nothing like the book that they read originally. The director has to realize that although there are many different types of audiences to please, that it still has to be a great movie that people cannot stop talking about.

The hunger games also are based in a futuristic society as applies to the book the Fahrenheit 451. The setting in the novel is one of complete disarray in the order of the society as is the case in the novel the Fahrenheit 451. The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel, but its content is far more political than any other novels written in the twenty-first century. The novel revolves around a young female teenager who is engaged in a young triangle with other two young men. The young men are Peeta Mellark and her best friend, Gale. The main idea, however, is the task that the young teenager, who happens to be the main character is faced with. Katniss Everdeen as is the name of the girl, is faced with the task of uniting her Falk in an uprising against the cruel system of administration which happens to be taking advantage of the other population (Dubrofsky

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins illustrates a dystopian society where the government tries to apply a perfect society to maintain the power in all of Panem. The author shows an elaborate and horrifying description of a society not so unlike our own and provides a clear warning about the danger of governmental control. The government of Panem has a government which controls everything. The government shows totalitarianism, a post-apocalyptic setting, and the world ranks. These three main points are what shows how the The Hunger Games is a great example of a dystopian literature.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer have many opposing opinions, views, symbols, characters, plots and settings; however both novels retain several similarities as well. Katniss Everdeen lives in a make belief, future country called Panem. The Capitol rules the surrounding 12 districts in a dictator- like way. In punishment for the districts past rebellion the Capitol decreed that every year each District must offer up one young man and woman to compete in the annual Hunger Games in which the tributes have to fight to the death and in order to win, have to be the last living tribute in the arena. Katniss is thrust into the games when she volunteers to take younger sisters place in the Hunger Games. In the other hand The House of the Scorpion is set in the future pseudo country called Opium. Matt the main character and the protagonist in the story is one of El Patron’s many clones. El Patron, who is the ruler of Opium, uses these clones for organ transplant to lengthen his life. However Matt escapes his cruel, appalling fate with the help of Tam Lin, Maria and Celia and ends up out-living El Patron, making him the new ruler of Opium. Although The Hunger Games and The House of the Scorpion are two very differently unique and marvelous stories, in my assessment and opinion they have a few similarities such as the symbols, characters, characters personalities, plots and settings.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has many characteristics of a dystopian society. Propaganda is used throughout the book to control the citizens of society. The people of the twelve districts have their Information, independent thought, and freedom restricted. The type of dystopian control present is corporate control.

Dystopian worlds are known to be set in the future, but there is the possibility to come true. “Dystopian young adult novels have risen in popularity among teenagers and adults alike” ( N/A 1). There have been several books written about dystopian worlds, such as The Hunger Games and Divergent these books have recently been turned into movies. They seem to be different, but in all reality they are very much alike with things setting, costumes, and message. I honestly prefer The Hunger Games over Divergent due to the fact that The Hungers Game had more money to work with and that it seemed all around better made with things such as setting, costumes, and the message.

“One choice can transform you”, a quote from Divergent, holds true to both The Hunger Games and Divergent. Throughout each series, there are many differences such as how the characters decide to take on each task handed to them, how they interact with other characters, and finally how they interact with the society. Though the two books may have similarities, they also have differences such as how the societies are divided, how love interests play a role, and finally how the main characters act in a situation. Even though both series have societies that are divided, the societies are divided into different ways. In Divergent, the society is divided into factions.

Dystopian societies are described as being the “not perfect” world and how there is poverty. In the two movies “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent”, they both are in a society that is lead to be perfect but is really quite the opposite. The two movies show the struggles of a heroine in the society they live in and what they do to try to change it. Both “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” movies have a futuristic setting, social class, and government but both deal with it in different ways.