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The Hunger Games Movie Vs Book

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The Hunger Games is a screenplay adapted from the book by Suzanne Collins. It is written from the point of view of Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old living in a dystopian world ruled by The Capitol. The Hunger Games book has many similarities and differences to the movie, in relation to characters, plots and sub-plots, scenes and dialogue. A few notable similarities are the love story of Katniss and Peeta, Katniss and Peeta themselves, Haymitch, and Katniss’s and Haymitch’s communication and similitude. Although, the differences are more in number and easy to spot. Not only are most of the scenes altered to fit the frame of a movie, such as replacing Katniss’s internal monologue with explanations or actions by others or herself, but more …show more content…

Movie Peeta is virtually indistinguishable to book Peeta. Altruistic, loyal and hopelessly in love with Katniss. The love story is analogous between movie and book. The way that Peeta subtly hinted that he liked her, his selfless actions and behaviours towards her-such as pretending to team with the Careers, fighting off Cato (result: a sword in his leg) to save her life and refusing to let her get the medicine that would assist in curing his life-threatening ailment. The scene where Peeta begged Katniss not to go to the Cornucopia for his medicine is an example of this (page 332). “No, you’re not risking your life for me.” Were his words. Another, more obvious resemblance of the book in the movie is the character Haymitch. In the book and movie, he is a drunk loser, with a side of wit. Haymitch thoroughly understands The Hunger Games, including aspects such as publicity, getting sponsors, as well as survival techniques. Haymitch and Katniss are alike in the way they are clever and resourceful, an example of this is the way they communicated with sponsor gifts. When Katniss was caring for Peeta in the arena, Haymitch responded to them showing affection with gifts: which Katniss easily understood, because she has such a similar mind to Haymitch, whereas Peeta didn’t realise. On page 93, Katniss thinks: “Haymitch couldn’t be sending me a clearer message. One kiss equals one pot of broth.”

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Haymitch Abernathy is an example of the mentor archetype in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. As a former winner of the games, he serves as a guide and mentor to the tributes, offering advice and strategies for survival. Haymitch is battling alcoholism and PTSD, but he uses his experiences to connect with the people going into the Hunger Games and help them overcome their own challenges. Haymitch's relationship with Katniss is a vital aspect of his mentor role; he offers her guidance and could serve as a father figure to her. Haymitch submits his power over Peeta.

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In the movie “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is a 2013 dystopian science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the second novel in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. The movie follows the story of Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who became the symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol after winning the 74th Hunger Games. The major characters in the film are Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawerence0, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), President Snow (Donald Sutherland), and Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson). In the sequel, Katniss and Peeta are forced to compete in the 75th Hunger Games, known as the Quarter Quell, where they must face off against other past victors. As they fight

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More interest and attention, means more sponsors. During the games, every time Katniss and Peeta share a romantic moment they are rewarded by much needed life-saving gifts from their sponsors. For example, as Katniss and Peeta share their first kiss, they receive the gift of hot broth. Katniss realizes that Haymitch, the District 12 tribute mentor, wants her to play up the romance. As Katniss obeys, they receive more gifts that assist in their survival.

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Katniss is a hunter and Peeta worked in a bakery. They both knew that survival was not only important for themselves, but also their families, they had no time to be normal

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He is as important as Katniss since he is the boy tribute for district twelve and another main character of this story. Peeta is described as a guy of “medium height, stocky build, [with] ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead”, sadly his description wasn’t too long but as well as Katniss the reader should be able to imagine his character by what has been described (Collins 25). Unfortunately, the movie does a very poor job in portraying Peeta’s character in the big screen. In the movie Peeta, acted by Josh Hutcherson, was not medium sized at all but short, his hair was not the ashy blond most people were hoping and he is not as built as Collins has described (Hunger).Many people may agree, that when they show the other character Gale, in the movie he may have been a better pick for the character Peeta, which may just be the readers’ opinion. This is because Gale represented the description a lot more in the movie (Hunger).Even when Peeta wasn’t what expected he ended up being a good fit for this

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“Ask any reader who has seen the movie version of a favorite novel, and the answer will usually be, "The book was better. " That 's because readers of a novel have already made their own perfect movie version” (Corliss et al., 2005). It would appear that Corliss is correct because many people who have read The Hunger Games book would say that it is better than the movie. Although the Hunger Games movie is entertaining, it is very different from the book.

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In the book The Hunger Games,Peeta and Katniss had both friendship and loyalty towards each other. Katniss and Peeta showed loyalty and friendship to each other by: Peeta never abandoned Katniss, Katniss nursed Peeta back to health, and Katniss doesn’t know it but she is in love with Peeta. Katniss and Peeta went from people who just used to barely acknowledged each other, to not being able to live without each other.

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Although they don’t get along, he helps her, by communicating with her through the gifts he sends to her in the arena, and Katniss realizes that she and Haymitch are very much alike as they both understands each other. For example, he didn’t send her a water when she was dying of thirst. She realized that the only reason he wasn’t helping her was because she was about to find water, and she was right. Nonetheless, he is a very smart man, as he knows the rules of the Games, the celebrity status that comes with it and how to deal with it.

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Katniss and Peeta also seem to have a codependent relationship, and both benefit from each other, represented best when Katniss hunts for food while Peeta collects berries; showing how both use their strengths to help each other survive. Above all, Katniss and Peeta can relate to each other, as they have both been actively thrown into a giant arena and are both fighitng for their lives. From Katniss’ perspective, Peeta is a familar face in a time when her whole

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