The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, has been adapted into a movie, and if you're interested, I'd be pleased to explain the key distinctions between the novel and the film. The story takes place in a dystopian future where the Capitol puts on an event every year called "The Hunger Games." During this event, a young man and a young woman are selected from every one of the 12 districts to take part in a battle to the death. Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl from District 12, who chooses to fill her sister's position in the competitions and emerges as a representation of hopefulness and uprising against the tyrannical dictatorship, is the protagonist of this novel. The story chronicles her journey as she competes in the Hunger Games. Violence is one of the most important parts of the book that was changed a lot for the movie version. Although the novel contains violent and upsetting tales of murder, the film version softens them in order to make them more accessible to a larger audience, especially teenage ones. The movie does include some violence, but it is not as extreme as it might seem since there are several pauses in the action throughout the most disturbing scenes. …show more content…
The role of Rue, a teenage girl representing District 11, who allies herself with Katniss and whose death serves as a turning point in the narrative, is shown as having a dark complexion in the novel. Rue and Katniss establish an alliance together. Rue is played by an actress with a lighter skin tone in the film version of the novel, and the emotional impact of her passing is downplayed in comparison to the impact it has on the reader while reading the book. This shift has been critiqued for not only contributing to the absence of multiculturalism in Hollywood but also for contributing to racial inequality in the