Hunger Games Comparison

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Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding, published in 1954. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novel and in the 2005 Time magazine it was named one of the 100 best English-novels from 1923 to 2005. When the novel came out, it wasn’t a great success at the time but with time it became a best seller and it has been adapted to film twice. William Golding wrote the story of an unspecified war when he was three years old in 1914. The book portrays the descent of the marooned boys into savagery and the regression to a primitive state then what modern civilization expected. The 2013 film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, directed by Francis Lawrence but based on The Hunger Games book series written by Suzanne Collins and starring Jennifer Lawrence as the lead character, Katniss Everdeen. The Hunger Games is considered to be a science fiction adventure film and it is a possible pathway of an apocalyptic future that is divided into districts and as punishment for the past rebellion the districts are …show more content…

The Hunger Games franchise was massive hit success and continued to grow when the next three instalments of the series came out. But The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has had its critic’s as well. By having the same concept as the first, it seemed very reparative because having the same Hunger Games but with this it proceeds the story of rebellion rising. President Snow is corrupted to the core, he thrives in the idea of order by massacring thousands rebels or not just to keep the power he has over the districts. Katniss matches his power of fear over the people with the power of hope to break the rules, break the system and to live life before the apocalyptic war. The realistic view of how Francis Lawrence pictures the future of the world is how it will be like this if we continue down the path we are on