The Hunger Games Comparison

The Hunger Games Comparison

The Hunger Games is an action and romance story.  It is written about the fight of children chosen by each District and about a love romance between two of these children.  Just one person can survive in the game.  The severe situation is more interesting the story.  In the background,  the writer tells some messages and a warning.  There are a lot of differences and similarities in scenes between the book and movie, The Hunger Games in characters, expression and content. 

First, there are differences of the characters.  In the movie, Gale’s character is not so important, so he does not have many lines.  However, Gale is an important person in the book.  There are a lot of scenes and conversations between him and Katniss.  Moreover, the Head Gamemaker plays an important role in the movie because he has some scenes of controlling the games, so he is also more important in the movie than in the book.  However,  the Avox girl, Peeta’s father and a mayor’s daughter Madge don’t appear in the movie. If there are not so many people, we don’t have to recognize mamy things and it is not complicated, so it’s good for us to catch the story easily.

Second, there are some differences and similarities of the expressions.  The movie does not use many words showing the feeling because we can see the character expressions and movements.  It depends on the audience feeling.  On the contrary, the book uses descriptions and many details to allow readers to understand easily, so everyone can catch the expressions correctly.  On the other hand, the movie uses words that are similar to the book such as Katniss said, “I volunteer as tribute.”  Almost words are very important to understand, The Hunger Games, so they are the same.

Third, there are some differences of the content.  In the movie, there are many difference in scenes and situation from the book.  The most different point is that the monster appears because the monster killed Thresh and Cato in the movie.  Furthermore, the speed of changing scenes in the movie.  Although there are very important scenes such as Rue’s death scene and a romance scene,   the scenes were too short.  However, if it is more important, then it becomes longer in the book.  The writer might want to tell us how is it important by the length.

In conclusion,  the book has many details, characters and words. A reader can know character feelings, movement and situations deeply in the book.  On the other hand, the movie doesn’t have some of these parts, but it has other scenes to make us excited.  Moreover, we can know contents easily becouse it is concise.  For these reasons, the book and movie, The Hunger Games, are almost similar, but the purpose of each is different.

Reference List

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Inc. 2009. p22