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The Hunger Games: Comparing The Book And The Movie
After reading the novel and watching the film of “The Hunger Games,” several similarities and differences are obvious.

The film and the novel mostly have several similarities. The similarities between the novel and the film tells the same storyline, which takes place at the same time. Another similarities between the novel and the film is the part where it shows or tell that Katniss volunteered as a tribute at the reaping to save Prim. Between the film and novel, they both mostly have similarities that tells or shows the parts.

The differences in the film affect the way events happened. One example is where Thresh killed Clove with a stone in the novel, but in the film, it shows Thresh knocking Clove to death. Another example, between the


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