Similarities Between The Hunger Games And The Goonies

introduction

The Hunger Games and The Goonies are alike and different in their attempt at The Hero's Journey. The Test/Allies/Enemies, Approach, and crossing the threshold have their similarities and differences.

Test/Allies/Enemies

The Test/Allies/Enemies portion of The Hunger Games and The Goonies have similarities in each story. One similarity is the traps in the test. In the cave in The Goonies They have booby traps for example the rolling boulder, the falling floor into the spikes, and the piano, as for The Hunger Games there were the fireballs falling, the cornucopia being rigged with bombs, and the muttations. the second similarity is the Allies that they shouldn’t be allies with. The ally in The Hunger Games is Rue and Katniss shouldn’t be allied with Rue because they aren’t in the same district, so in the end they would’ve had to kill each other. In The Goonies sloth is one of the Fratellis because he is Ma’s son and in the end, he was nicer to them so he could’ve betrayed The Goonies. the final similarity is the enemies and the enemies in both stories are a group of people. In The Hunger Games, the group of enemies was the group of careers like Thresh, glimmer, and Cato, in The Goonies the group of enemies was the Fratellis like Francis, Jake, and Ma.

Approach

for example, both Approaches have something related to gold, in The Hunger Games it is the cornucopia, which is a statue made of gold but in The Goonies it is One-eyed willies ship that is filled with gold and not made of gold and the cornucopia is not the reward but it is more like a base but for one-eyed willies ship the gold that has been left in the ship The Goonies get to keep but in both of the stories the gold was useless because in The Hunger Games, they only use the cornucopia as a base and in The Goonies, they never actually take any of the gold they just take a small bag of