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Similarities Between Theseus And The Hunger Games

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In her novel The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins clearly takes key elements of her story from the ancient greek myth of theseus. This story is very similar to The Hunger Games in several ways. In both stories each capital asks for tributes who will then have to fight for survival. Katniss like Theseus are very brave and strong and both volunteer to be put into these fights for survival. Both Katniss and Theseus have noticed the amount of injustice in their area. Katniss like Theseus succeed not only in winning the games but through love, in katniss case with Peeta, and in Theseus's case with Minos's daughter. In the hunger games, Katniss couldn't of won without peeta’s help, and same goes for theseus which in some way used Ariadne in his advantage

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