Similarities And Differences Between Battle Royale 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.

Koushun Takami’s exhilarating novel, “Battle Royale”, is placed in takes place in an alternate world, in a continent called the Republic of Greater Asia. The Dictator every year will force a class of students to fight their friends to the death. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist Shuya, and his peers think they are being taken on a field trip, but are really gassed and then taken to an island off the coast of present day Japan. Upon waking up they are all greeted by a man by the name of Sakamochi. He then explains to them all that they will all be taking part in this years game. In the confusion Shuyas best friend, upon being outraged at the treatment of his foster mother, is shot and killed in front of all his peers. Another

"You just don 't know," she said. "You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don 't know what it 's all about. Sometimes I want to eat this place. Vietnam. I want to swallow the whole country—the dirt, the death—I just want to eat it and have it there inside me. That 's how I feel. It 's like . . . this appetite. I get scared sometimes—lots of times—but it 's not bad. You know? I feel close to myself. When I 'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it 's like I 'm full of electricity and I 'm glowing in the dark—I 'm on fire almost—I 'm burning away into nothing—but it doesn 't matter because I know exactly who I am. You can 't feel like that anywhere else."” (O’ Brien 80-81). Tim O’ Brien shows how being in contact with the war can change a person so pure and innocent to a person who isn’t in connection with themselves and is forever trapped inside their own mind. Also it shows how the people who can’t handle the rough environment of war can have a terrible reaction and loose themselves. He also shows how the war changes you mentally making it hard for you to tell if the is the real you or just a persona you took when you couldn’t handle it anymore and needed to mask your broken soul.

George Saunders’ “The Red Bow” is an allegory of America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.  The invasion was ordered not long after the terrorist attacks in the United States orchestrated by the Afghanistan based al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. The attacks resulted in a panic led by American authorities to find and destroy any person or group that could be a threat to American freedom.  Since the attacks in 2001, the United States military has led attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, and Syria.  Today, we are beginning to see the long-term effects of the war in Iraq as ISIL fighters try to reintegrate into society and are faced with a moral panic.  In “The Red Bow”, Uncle Matt symbolizes the source of irrational fears similar to that which one witnesses today.

“My Imagination at 10 years old didn’t have the capacity to grasp what had taken away the happiness of the refugees” (6). A child is naïve, innocent, and can’t grasp the idea of war, much less fathom joining it. So the military must find tactics to rework their minds into apathetic killing machines. In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah drugs, emotional manipulation, and pop culture are some of the main tactics employed by the militia.

I remember the smell, the sounds, the taste of blood. I remember seeing my comrades fall beside me, the sting of the cuts. The numbness as I fell alongside them, the sadness, the tears. The price of war, I believe my father said that to me before he died. I remember being lifted and carried, I remember a laugh. Then I felt my mind slowly becoming numb, and soon my mind was consumed by the darkness. Like a wildfire it spread from the farthest of places, destroying everything in its’ path. It was over, the war was lost, hope gone; at least until today….

We all, as a people who have not seen the real war, are left in a state of confusion and uncertainty, when it comes to think about the war times, without real information and impressions of the combatants. Of course, looking from the bigger frame, there is no any event that had demolished the valuable heritage of humankind. But if we get closer, “we cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators”. People often try to imagine a war, in which 18 years olds had been killed mercilessly for the sake of their land, mothers of the soldiers lost the piece of their hearts and women had waited for their beloved ones even if they knew that they will not come. We are the people who did not

The sound of screaming and swords clashing outside jolted me awake. I found myself pressed against the wall, sword and shield both in hand. The thane shouted commands to destroy everything in sight. With that, the sound of death was on the other side of the wall. I heard my mother’s screams become instantly silent. An army man shouted, “One down! The other cannot be found, sir.” My stomach became knotted as I thought of my mother, lying on the ground with no hope of waking up. I should have burst through the wooden door, swinging my sword in every direction until I heard the last breath of each Rine there. Instead, I sank to my knees and wept as I listened to the Comitatus invading my home. I waited for the thanes to come here and kill me as they did my mother. My father had managed to escape, but there is no way he could save me. However, I knew he did not care to anyways. The sound of men approaching the door took my breath away. My sobbing became uncontrollable. I heard the wooden door creek open, as I sank deeper and deeper into the dirt beneath me. A feeling of helplessness over took me. My life was over. The Rines had a mission to kill everything they saw, and I knew they saw me. One officer yelled,

The Hunger Games and Divergent demonstrate an exaggerated view of the extremes, society has come to, to minimise the drastic effects and repercussions that the present has caused this future dystopian society.

The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Star Wars all have many similarities and differences in Their Ordinary World,Call to Adventure and test allies and enemies. You may think that all these books are the same but there not if you look at all of these books and go deeper into what they really mean you would see that they all have one mishen

Beyond the plot, the Hunger Games and Battle Royale It is quite common to watch a movie or read a book and feel that you’ve come across something like this before. That is a feeling that a lot of people have experienced when they watched or read The Hunger Games because about a decade before its release, a movie called Battle Royale had hit the screens in Japan and shared parallels with Suzanne Collins’ book. Although Collins’ claims that she had never heard of Battle Royale prior to writing the books, the creator of the multimedia franchise has sparked a debate as to whether or not the Hunger Games ripped off Battle Royale. Now it is quite common to find works that have been independently created but are similar or related, but this isn’t enough to jump out and call plagiarism.

The video game industry has grown vastly throughout the years. There are many game genres to choose from and each of them are distinctive from the others. This year’s most popular genre, battle royale, has massively taken over other gaming categories. Standing on top of the list, Fornite, has reached over millions of players globally. This genre has captivated the public’s attention and ever since its release, many players have slowly turned Fortnite into a part of their daily life.

Essay 2connections between war and society and the consequences caused by modern war. The films I am choosing to focus on are Paths of Glory, A painful Reminder, and The Remains of the Day. In each of these films, it is clear that major consequences of modern war include deception and fear. A key connection between the films is the significance of their background and how that background greatly supports the films’ contexts. Additionally, I intend to hone in on the importance of social class in each of these films. In summary, I am concentrating my efforts to explain the causes of fear, deception, the importance of background, and class significance and how these factors were depicted in these films, as well as their connection to society.

Battle Royale is a novel that takes place in a dystopian future where the Japanese government, which is falling apart due to high rates of unemployment and students, who instead of studying, are skipping classes. The government then uses the “Battle Royale” act as a.. Persuasion, of sorts, against those who rebel. The “Battle Royale” act is an act which allows the government to kidnap a random class of ninth-graders annually and set them on an island, attaching collars to their throats, which explode and kill the wearer if they were to wander into areas that are off-limits. They are sent to the island with very few supplies, a map, and, if they are lucky, good weapons to arm themselves against each other. The students are given a time limit of 24 hours. If there is not just one winner, the collars will detonate, causing there to be no winner.