Hunger Games Book Vs Movie Essay

Hunger Games is about a young teenager Katniss that is a tough hunter and brings food to the table after her father’s death. She lives in district 12 in a city called panem. Every year the capitol of the city hosts an event called hunger games where 2 civilians called tributes of opposite sexes are selected from each district to fight to the death in an arena. When katniss’ sister was selected Katniss offers herself to replace her sister in the arena. I would say one of the discrepancies between the movie and the book are the way they treat the relationship of Katniss and rue, katniss’ protégé in the game, and then the death of rue including the reaction of rue’s district to her death. A second major discrepancy is the fact that in the book

In particular, in the book Katniss is the sole person aware of the dropped into the arena token that she was given by District 11 as a sign of appreciation for her noble acts, while in the movie there is a far greater fuss going on over the reaction of the district 11. Another major difference is that there is no Avox girl, as one can read in the book. Although one might say that it is a minor character that could as well be omitted from the movie the Avox girl has an important back story with Katniss. While reading the novel at the time when Katniss is getting ready for the games there are some capitol people that she meets with and serve drinks and food to her. One of the capitol servants is an avox girl that has a distinctive place in katniss’ memories. That particular avox servant is remembered by Katniss as a girl that was desperately trying to escape from the capitol, but was eventually under arrest by the government and had her tongue removed after being charged with treachery. Katniss appears with feelings of remorse for not having attempted to save that avox girl which is a back-story never portrayed at full on