Similarities Between The Hunger Games And The Giver

The novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a teenage girl, Katniss, having to live in a poor world where she participates in a yearly event called ‘The Hunger Games’. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a teenage boy having to see the flaws of a world which are sameness. The Hunger Games is more dystopian than The Giver but both stories share some similarities. The Hunger Games and The Giver both characters are positively popular or famous to the community but the difference is that the society in The Hunger Games is one of poverty compared to Jonas’ society and that the government in The Hunger Games has much more absolute control over the society. Therefore these points show that The Hunger Games is more dystopian than The Giver
Both communities in both stories are much more secure than ours if we were to scale it but the difference between The Hunger Games and The Giver is very big, in terms of control. because The Hunger Games Capitol unfairly distributes well for them to the Districts and forces teenagers from the district to battle each other. Unlike The Giver, they treat everyone equally. In The Giver, Jonas’s whole society was free before now because of horrible things like war, violence etc. Now the society has “no war, no pain, no hunger”, “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” Everything is the same, everything is normal. But for The Hunger Games, at the 74th Annual Hunger Games, ‘various districts of across Panem would offer up in tribute, one young man and woman to fight to the death in a pageant of honour, courage and sacrifice.’ and so that it will remind the districts not repeat what they did in the past. Thus showing that although The Giver may have so much control over the citizens to protect them, The Hunger Games has the citizens kill each