The Hunger Games Comparison

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.

Comparing The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins and Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding.

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.

Humanity is one of the many virtues we as humans believe we are born with. However, living in a world much like the one described in both The Hunger Games and The Road novels, some may argue that turning off one’s humanity is a necessity. Nevertheless, both novels prove that while some characters had to turn off their humanity in a horrific world like The Hunger Games and The Road, the two main characters of each book demonstrated how a barbaric world could not take that virtue from them.

The Hunger Games takes place in a post-civil-war country that has been divided into 12 districts. Katniss Everdeen lives in district 12 and competes in the yearly Hunger Games. She is not given a choice in this matter. Once she wins, she rebels against the government and fights to fix the districts. Divergent, a series by Veronica Roth, is a failed Utopia where each person has to choose which faction they want to be a part of for the rest of their life. Tris chooses Dauntless, and then discovers she is Divergent, a rare trait that could lead to being disowned by her society. This helps her to rebel against the government that is controlling people in her faction.

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.

Imagine living in a world where man hunts man for sport or are made to kill each other in a publicly televised event. These are the world's that the characters Rainsford and Katniss live in. In the book A Most Dangerous Game the character Rainsford finds himself on an island where a man named General Zaroff hunts him and many more before him, for sport. In the movie The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen lives in a world where people are split up into twelve different districts. The government takes two people, a boy and a girl, from each district and throws them into an arena to fight to the death. Rainsford and Katniss both possess the skills and traits of a true survivor. These skills and traits are using intelligence over strength, showing compassion to others, and triumphing over those who only use strength.

The first similarity noticed between the two were the social class divisions between the citizens of both Panem and Eurasia. In The Hunger Games, Panem is divided into the capitol and 12 districts, where the lesser citizens spend their days. Seeing as though the society we live under today also contains such social divisions, it’s not seen as socially unjust. However, the problem with the social divisions of Panem is that the people in the districts further away from the capitol live miserable lives. District 12, the home of Katniss ( the protagonist), is one of the poorest districts, if not the poorest. Many people live in poverty and struggle to feed themselves. Katniss occasionally hunts outside the district fences illegally, just to be able to provide for her family considering her mother struggled to do that ever since her husband died in a mining explosion. President Snow is well aware of the circumstances these families face but still does nothing to help, leaving them to find their own ways of keeping themselves alive.

Being stuck in a maze with people you adore, and being stuck in a war zone with people you hate, may seem very different, but they both want the same thing and that is to survive. In The Maze Runner, Thomas, who is hated at the beginning, then becomes the hero and becomes loved by his group. In the book, The Hunger Games, Katniss becomes a leader, fighter and warrior by surviving the Hunger Games. The similarities between the conflict, protagonist, and the setting in The Maze Runner, by James Dashner and The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins are so fascinating.

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.

Civilization v.s. savagery is a recurring theme in both Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. To begin with, both books transition the characters from civilization to a savage environment. In Lord of the Flies, the characters are from parts of Europe transitioning to a deserted island. In The Hunger Games, characters transition from their districts into the deadly Hunger Games arena. The transitions from civilization to a savage environment is very deadly to all characters. Both environments are a “uninhabited island with no other people on it” waiting with unknown threats to determine the civilized and the savages (Golding 33). In addition, characters from both books share qualities

The world is full of signs, signifiers and ideologies all of which are represented in cohesive and n the non-cohesive ways. Signs are interpreted in many ways and depending on the person, their cultural surroundings, and beliefs. The cross is a timeless example since this shape has been used for many centuries universally around the world, on the other hand something like a octagon in the United States this shape is widely known as a stop sign, while in other parts of the world, in general use a circle shape with a line or an ‘x’ marked through it, however there is one element that seems to be congruent with each other and that is the use of red. The color red is universally known as a warning of danger ahead. The movies The Hunger Games

In a study done by the British Security Industry Authority (BSIA), it was estimated that there are nearly 5.9 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom; at the maximum end of that estimate, there is one camera for every eleven people.  In a separate study by BBC, they found that there were 1,113 CCTV cameras in the London Borough of Wandsworth, which has a population of around 300,000.  In comparison, the city of Dublin, Ireland with half a million people; San Francisco with almost 900,000 people; the city of Johannesburg, South Africa with 4.5 million people; and Boston with just over 650,000 people all combined have only 1110 CCTV cameras.  Those five large cities all have less cameras combined than one borough of London.  With all the surveillance

Divergent and The Hunger Games both try to make the best community they can. Dividing the communities into different groups allows people to excel in what they are great at. Divergent groups the town up into five factions. At a young age, children are tested to see what faction they should be in. In Divergent, the people control the government but in The Hunger Games the government is run by the wealthiest people in the community, and those people do not care what happens to the other people. Also in The Hunger Games, there are thirteen different districts and the capital. Each district is a town that gives everything to the capital and receives nothing in return. Divergent is more logical because the community works together and are all equal, while The Hunger Games does not care what happens to the people in the districts because the games are“the hunger games” is entertainment for the capital.