Similarities Between The Giver And The Hunger Games

A common theme that’s developed in The Giver, by Lois Lowry, and The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is that people need their rights and freedoms. In both texts the citizens have no power nor rights. In The Giver, if people make honest mistakes they are released, a nicer term for being killed, not to mention they have no trail, and this is only one right the citizens don’t have. The receiver of memory is the only person in the community that sees what is wrong, because they have the memories of the past. One receiver, Rosemary, kills herself so the memories would go to the citizens, and influence them to rebel. Although she failed because she did not have enough memories to give the people, she influenced the next receiver, Jonas, to give

the people the rest of the memories and rebel. The Giver says “’ Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless-It’s what they’ve chosen.’”(Page 100) This is the first time Jonas realized the community is not fair. The Hunger Games also supports people need their rights. The novel starts out explaining how the 13 districts rebelled against the capitol, or the government. Although they may have failed they still had a war over their rights and freedoms. In the Hunger Games it is stated that the districts were to be punished. “In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one boy and one girl, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena… over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death.” This was there punishment even less rights all because they tried to get more rights. In conclusion, The Giver and The Hunger Games have a common theme that people need rights, and without them there will be consequences.