Battle Royale Comparison

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Sometimes You Need to Lie to Make the World Go Round Imagine a world where the government has total control over people. People live in fear, teens and parents especially. In this world, a government’s experiment places teenagers into a death game, where they must kill each other to survive. Try to revolt, you die, with no trace of you left. You win, your old life completely forgotten. To kill your classmates or be killed yourself? Only one can win… … This is the story of Shuya Nanahara, in the novel Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, published in 1999. Shuya Nanahara is 9th grader who attends Shiroiwa Junior High School, and goes on a “study trip” and ends up on a remote island. This is where he is chosen for a government experiment known as the BR Act with the rest of his classmates. Shuya is very adamant in his views; he doesn't want to kill or harm any of his classmates, but as circumstances get tougher, he might have to do things he normally wouldn’t think about. Noriko Nakagawa is the quiet, reserved crush of Shuya’s best friend, and she …show more content…

Both of them take place in dystopian settings, where The Hunger Games has Panem, but Battle Royale has the police state, the Republic of Greater East Asia. Not only that, but both have teens forced into death games (and more similarities that would spoil both books if I said them.) But, because of their similarities they also have more contrast. In Battle Royale all the teens know each other, so that means that daily things like gossip or bullying can be deadly. Also, the characters of The Hunger Games have to fight for their weapons by grabbing bags, but the characters in Battle Royale are assigned bags, which means that you could get a knife, or you could end up getting a useless item like a frying pan. The Hunger Games also has the whole death show on air, but in Battle Royale only the winner gets

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