Similarities Between Divergent And The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, is an adventure fiction novel filled with adventures and trials that will lead you to into the near distant future. In a place that was once known as United States of America, is now known as Panem, which is divided up in to twelve cruel districts. Forced by the nation’s capitol, one boy and one girl shall be chosen randomly to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Hunger Games, also known as the deathly journey when put in to an unknown place and requires you to fight until you are the last one standing. This may be seen as an enjoyable entertainment to those residing in the nations capitol; but to Katniss Everdeen, a courageous teenager, it is a death sentence that cannot be avoided.

Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist in The Hunger Game series, is one of the survivors of the hunger game. Katniss comes from district 12, the poorest area in the whole countries. The character’s image is tough and strong because she wants to protect her family from any dangers. Therefore, she volunteers to replace her sister in the hunger game to protect her. She even become the symbol of resistance (the Mockingjay) of the war to the Capitol during the revolution. For people in the Panem, Katniss is the victor of the hunger game, the hope, who survives from the torture and poverty. The image of Katniss represents people who fight for survival in the real world. People sometimes need to give up something when they faced difficulty, like Katniss, she makes efforts to fight with the government.

In the novel, The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian young adult book that is based in Panem that is divided into twelve districts. Each year the districts have to send a boy and a girl into an arena to fight to the death. The novel’s protagonist is Katniss, who lives in the poorest district. Katniss makes the audience think of the important ideas of bravery, societal class and love.

True love makes impossible things come possible. There are many cases where love is expressed at The Hunger Games especially when Katniss decides to go to the games only to save to her sister, “ I volunteer!”, I gasp. “ I volunteer as tribute!” (pg.36).

The novel The Hunger Games is written by author Suzannne Collins. Collins created a dystopian novel that has similarities to the current society we live in and could be interpreted to be what the future holds. Throughout the book characteristics of a dystopia society are revealed. From districts starving, living in poverty, being killed for trying to escape to somewhere better and being forced to do things they do not want to do. The beginning of the book on page three, starts with the main character Katniss Everdeen assuming her sister left their bed for their mothers’ because of nightmares caused by the reaping. The reaping is when each district chooses a boy and girl to take place in the Hunger Games. The Hunger games is a sadistic way the capital reminds their citizens they are in control. At the age of twelve children names are entered into calling up until they are

The Hunger Games is set in the country of Panem, having a wealthy capitol and 12

To begin with, The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy, and is written by Suzanne Collins. First off, the novel takes place in Penem, a make-believe future where the Capital is surrounded by districts. The Districts are like slaves to the Capital, give away resources to the Capital and only keep some resources to themselves; so you can imagine that the districts are very poor. The Capital also forces the districts to give up one boy and girl to go to annual Hunger Games, so to prevent War. Katniss, the main character in the book, ends up being part of the hunger games alongside with Peeta. Katniss then has to fight for her life because there may only be one victor. Lastly, throughout this book you’ll see conformity and civil disobedience play a huge role in the Hunger Games.

In the novel “The Hunger Games” Suzanne Collins conveys the qualities of a hero through the main character Katniss Everdeen. The novel is based around a dystopian nation, in which is placed in Panem. Through which a boy and a girl from each district must take part in ‘The Hunger Games’ where they have to fight to the death, until there is one survivor. Katniss subsequently evolves as a significant hero portraying the heroic qualities such as selflessness, identity change and intelligence. Selflessness is shown as she puts others before herself, her identity changes as she has to put up a brave face, and intelligence is displayed as her strategies progress in the games.

“We had to save you because you're the Mockingjay, Katniss, says Plutarch. While you live, the revolution lives” (Collins). Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games is a complex character who epitomizes the archetype of a hero, however, she also shatters the mold by rebelling against the capital and endangering her whole family. She starts out as a hero to her family, especially her sister, and then becomes the symbol of strength to everyone. Katniss sacrifices herself by volunteering to join the Hunger Games in place of her sister, it is a game of survival where a boy and a girl from each district are forced to fight the other members of other districts to the death. By going out of her ordinary world and preparing to join a game where her life could be taken, she fits right into the archetype of a hero. Her bow and arrow, the weapon that only she can wield, will be the only things to help her survive. Despite these heroic qualities, Katniss makes an erroneous decision and blunder mistakes that shows the reader the flip side of Katniss.

The last difference between protagonists Montag and Katniss are their emotions during their battles with their dystopian societies. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag is scared to be different from his lack of emotion society and to tell anyone he is interested in books, at first, because of the consequences that arise with it. Montag’s feelings are clearly understood when Bradbury writes, “He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other.” This quote immediately shows the readers Montag’s conflict within himself between being a dutiful member of his dystopian society and deep down knowing something is wrong. In contrast to Montag, Katniss, in The Hunger Games expresses her emotions differently. Although the readers can assume that Katniss may be scared on the inside from everything she has heard about the games, she does not show it. When district twelve gathers to see whose name will be drawn, Katniss’s sister, Prim, was

The main character in the book Divergent is a girl named Beatrice. Beatrice is developed throughout the book by having to do things that push her out of her comfort zone. Beatrice was born in the faction of Abnegation, where everything is simple and alike. Abnegation values selflessness, but Beatrice doesn’t feel like she is selfless. She decides to change to the faction of Dauntless, who values courage. Beatrice has to do things like jump off trains, and fight people to show she is courageous. She decides to start going byTris, because Beatrice won’t fit in with the dauntless. When Beatrice makes the decision to be a dauntless she says “My fathers eyes burn into mine with a look of accusation’. This is because it was selfish of

The dystopian protagonist that is present in the Hunger Games is Katniss Everdeen. “Finally, I am too restless to even stay in bed. I pace the floor, heart beating too fast, breathing too short. My room feels like a prison cell. I run down hall to the door to the roof. The energy field enclosing the roof prevents any desperate form of escape” (Collins 148) Katniss is often struggling to escape or feels like she’s trap, she knows that she’s a tribute in the hunger games and is afraid that she will never see her family again if she doesn’t come out as the victor. Through Katniss’s perspective you can easily recognize that there is something wrong with the society that she lives in. “ I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own” (Collins 237). Katniss knows that the Capitol is cruel and wrong for having the hunger games, forcing the tributes to kill one another

In Divergent by Veronica Roth Tris is wanted by Erudite because she is a Divergent and cannot be controlled. Erudite seeks to control the Dauntless faction through a serum which Tris is immune to because of what she is. Another text that highlights major conflict and persecution is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Katniss is in the 74th Hunger Games in which twenty-four children battle to the death, the stakes for her to win are very low because she is from District 12 a poor district that is usually ignored by sponsors. A key difference between the persecution Katniss and Tris both experience is while Katniss is being hunted, she is not the only one being hunted she too is doing the hunting; Tris is being hunted with no return action. In the hunger games there is shameless bloodshed, again this is different to Divergent because in this text there is no need for shameless bloodshed, all Erudite wants is the Divergents nobody else needs to be harmed. Both Katniss and Tris gain the upperhand after period of persecution and warfare. Both characters show that the underdog can become the hero of the story. This is shown in how Katniss the underdog from District 12 managed to survive the games, outwit the gamemakers and win. Tris too is an underdog, she is used to doing what she is told to, so her outwitting Erudite by doing the opposite of what she is told to becomes her triumph. In our own lives we can all relate to feeling like the underdog in something, feeling like we’ll lose and overcoming the obstacle in our path. Overcoming the obstacle in our path can often lead to great

I would recommend Divergent to anybody who is interested in Dystopian fiction books like the Hunger Games because they have many similarities. Divergent and the Hunger Games both are set in post-apocalyptic times where society has changed and advanced to something that may appeal odd to us, and it involves the main heroine who stands up to a great force for her own and family’s sake. For example, Divergent is set in a dystopian Chicago where society is split up into five factions based on one trait. The main character, Tris Prior, stops the Erudite and Dauntless revolt to save her previous faction Abnegation. Likewise, in the Hunger Games, the story is set in America’s ruins, known as Panem, and there is one capitol, which controls the surrounding

In the books Divergent and The Hunger Games, both books show the same central theme of bravery. This is shown when Tris decided to choose Dauntless, “I am selfish. I am brave,” (page: 47). This is also shown when Katniss stands up for her sister and even takes her place, "I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" (page: 5 and six). This is important because it takes true bravery to make a strong person. However, it is even more important to be brave and humble, the main characters of both of these books seem to never would boast about their doings because they did their act of bravery from their heart. In other words, they did this act of bravery to help someone else and even an entire society. Similarly yet differently , the two main characters in the books share a common theme of courage. However, the characters develop this trait at different points.