The Hunger Games: Comparison Of Book And Movie
“The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.” Even though the novel The Hunger Games can be interpreted as entertainment in both the book and novel, the novel is to inform, and movie is to entertain. This is because in the first few chapters all the author talks about is how bad, sad and how the government is being ruined, how sad, informing the audience what the government can become. In the movie it doesn't really express how bad the government is and skips over important key details, therefore the movie is to entertain.
In the movie The Hunger Games, the director, Gary Ross makes it clear that the movie was made to entertain the audience. Ross knew his intentions were to make a great movie which …show more content…
Collins wrote the Hunger games to embrace her father's impulse to educate young people about the realities of war. "If we wait too long, what kind of expectation can we have?" she asked. "We think we're sheltering them, but what we're doing is putting them at a disadvantage." Said Collins. Her point is that children need to be aware of both the motivations for, and the consequences of war. Suzanne Collins also wanted to show the negative side in today's society by putting them in this book. Many times in The Hunger Games Collins used illusions to show how bad things are, such as groups in school and the wars that are going on. Unlike Other books just about survival, the Hunger Games shows the other side of a character and it's emotions. “Not only is Peeta with the careers and he is helping them find me.”(89) Collin wrote this book in first person to show Katniss’s inside thoughts on everything. Giving the audience more information on the informative …show more content…
The change of going from first person in the book to third person in the movie difference them a lot, by showing emotion and intense action to less informing and more entertaining in the movie. Just remember “The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.” Meaning Collins wrote this novel to entertain young adults, but she didn't do it so they had knowledge, she did it so they will know the right and wrong when it comes to making the right
In the movie The Hunger Games, the director, Gary Ross makes it clear that the movie was made to entertain the audience. Ross knew his intentions were to make a great movie which …show more content…
Collins wrote the Hunger games to embrace her father's impulse to educate young people about the realities of war. "If we wait too long, what kind of expectation can we have?" she asked. "We think we're sheltering them, but what we're doing is putting them at a disadvantage." Said Collins. Her point is that children need to be aware of both the motivations for, and the consequences of war. Suzanne Collins also wanted to show the negative side in today's society by putting them in this book. Many times in The Hunger Games Collins used illusions to show how bad things are, such as groups in school and the wars that are going on. Unlike Other books just about survival, the Hunger Games shows the other side of a character and it's emotions. “Not only is Peeta with the careers and he is helping them find me.”(89) Collin wrote this book in first person to show Katniss’s inside thoughts on everything. Giving the audience more information on the informative …show more content…
The change of going from first person in the book to third person in the movie difference them a lot, by showing emotion and intense action to less informing and more entertaining in the movie. Just remember “The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.” Meaning Collins wrote this novel to entertain young adults, but she didn't do it so they had knowledge, she did it so they will know the right and wrong when it comes to making the right