THE HUNGER GAMES

Plot

In a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal retribution for a past rebellion, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors while the citizens of Panem are required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives, some of whom have trained for this their whole lives. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/plotsummary by Suzanne Collins

Character

Katniss Everdeen

Strong - resourceful sixteen-year-old who is far more mature than her age would suggest. Katniss is the main provider in her family, which consists of Katniss, her mother, and her younger sister, Prim.

Responsible - Katniss is fiercely protective of her younger sister, and she volunteers to take Prim’s place in the Hunger Games to protect her.

Brave - she hunt for feeding her family, however, is illegal and punishable by death. Katniss does it anyway, indicating a rebellious streak in her.http://www.shmoop.com/hunger-games/katniss-everdeen.html Peeta Mellark

Love - In love with Katniss ever since he first saw her back in grade school and heard her singing that catchy valley song. He's the one who instigated the whole romance plot by confessing his feelings for Katniss on camera.

Helpful - The one who helped save her family from starvation by giving her loaves of bread when she was a child. Peeta's kindness probably saved the lives of Katniss and her family. http://www.shmoop.com/hunger-games/peeta-mellark.html

DIVERGENT

In a futuristic society where the five factions are the basis of the whole function, Tris Prior discovers that she's Divergent, therefore does not fit in to one faction. If she is discovered, she will be killed. She tries to keep her Divergence a secret, but throughout her vigorous training, she reveals to the trainer, Four, her ability to manipulate the test and that she is Divergent. Soon Tris and Four discover a plot to overthrow the government, killing hundreds in the process, and they must do what they can to stop it. With the power of Divergence, a they may just be the only ones able to save their whole world. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840309/plotsummary by Summit entertainment

Beatrice Prior (Tris)

Poor self- esteem - she can be a straight up wrong a lot of the time. Tris is the kind of girl who notices when there's a conspiracy to use her current faction to kill off her former faction, but she doesn't notice when a guy likes her.

Sensitive - When Tris rejects Al, she feels bad for him: "I wish I could tell him not to take it personally" (16.24). See, Tris feels bad and wishes she could make things better for Al. She continues to try to be friends and make things better between them—because she's a sensitive girl who feels bad when other people are in pain.

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Tobias Eaton (Four)

Poor & Useless - Tris competes to stay in Dauntless and succeeds not entirely because of him. Tris mostly seems to do well in the rankings because she's Divergent—that's where her true power lies.

Trustworthy - Four is very helpful here since he keeps her Divergent secret to himself when he's giving her the fear test http://www.shmoop.com/divergent/tobias-four-eaton.html

Theme

The inequality between rich and poor

In Panem, wealth is heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich, particularly those people living in the Capitol and certain of the districts, and the result is a huge disparity between their lives and the lives of the poor.

Suffering as entertainment

The Hunger Games present the tributes’ suffering as mass entertainment, and the more the tributes suffer, ideally in battle with one another, the more entertaining the Games become. The main draw of the Games for viewers is its voyeurism, in this case watching the tributes, who are of course children, fighting and dying.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-hunger-games/themes.html

Secrets and Lies

The most notable secret Tris keeps is her Divergence; because of the way the Divergent are being persecuted in her society, it would be disastrous to reveal to the world the results of her aptitude test. Only a select few people know of this secret, yet it still threatens to destroy her. Other characters are constantly keeping life-altering secrets as well: Four hides his true identity, Tris's mother lies about her birth faction

Identity & Choices

Tris as a Divergent, her choice of faction defines her more than anything else does. Though her aptitude test is inconclusive - she could be a match to Abnegation, Erudite, or Dauntless - she chooses Dauntless because she feels it will allow her to discover her true self.

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Draft (contrast essay)

Intro – Sci fiction movie are usually scientific, more futuristic and probably advanced in technology gadget. This kind of movie often express the potential of technology destroy humankind through events, such as wars, rebellion and disaster.

Point 1- Plot

Point 2 – Character

Both of the main character were women but they were totally different. Katniss Everdeen in the hunger games was strong because as a sixteen-year-old girl she is far more mature than her age would suggest. She is the main provider in her family after her dad had passed away in a mines explosion. On the other hand. Beatrice Prior in Divergent was poor self- esteem compare to Katniss Everdeen. She can be a straight up wrong a lot of the time. For example, Beatrice is the kind of girl who notices when there's a conspiracy to use her current faction to kill off her former faction, but she doesn't notice when a guy likes her. Katniss can’t be poor self esteem as Beatrice because she had to take care of her mother and also her younger sister, Prim.

Point 3 - Theme

In the movie hunger games it consist the theme of inequality between rich and poor. In Panem, wealth is heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich, particularly those people living in the Capitol and certain of the districts, and the result is a huge disparity between their lives and the lives of the poor. For those poor they don’t even have enough to eat and choice to live with. While the themes in Divergent is identity & Choices. In this movie Beatrice as a Divergent, her choice of faction defines her more than anything else does. Though her aptitude test is inconclusive - she could be a match to Abnegation, Erudite, or Dauntless. She had more option than Katniss who just force to participate the Games

Conclusion : Some similarity of both story

SCI- Fiction movie

”Both books had the setting of a dystopia. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia. A utopia is an ideal society which doesn’t exist. In “Divergent”, the protagonist, who is a heroin, is Tris and in “The Hunger Games”, it’s Katniss. Both Katniss and Tris have the personality of a strong brave teenage girl that would sacrifice their lives to protect what they love. The dystopias in both stories were destroyed in the end causing an uproar lead by the protagonists.” EXAMPLE