Similarities Between The Hunger Games And Anthem

Anthem and The Hunger Games
Anthem was written by Ayn Rand was a dystopian society where one person sees that nothing is going right. This one person’s name is Equality 7-2521 shares a trait with another dystopian hero. Her name is Katniss Everdeen. They were both part of a dystopian societies. they also were the reason why things changed and started to go good. Teens all around the world can relate to theses stories in their own ways, whether it is from school, or even their parents.
Anthem is a dystopian society story. Anthem is set into the cuter where all knowledge has been lost. The people or the council believe that the words "I" "my"' or anything else that relates to self recognition should not be allowed or else they should

be punished. The council say that all are equal and should not be singled out.”And if you are not needed by your brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies”. Rynd (1.20)

The council chooses every single person's job for them whether they like it or not. Equality wanted to be a part if the hours of the scholars. This means that he would be at the highest occupation that you can receive, but he got the lowest because the council see him as a threat because he was smarter than anyone else in the entire school. So he got to be a streetsweeper. But he knew that he had to to do this so he went on with his life as a streetsweeper.
Equality and one of his other colleagues one day stumbled around an old tunnel or subway entrance, which was from the unmentionable times. Equality was very curios about this strange discovery he a uncovered. If the council ever knew about this, then they would have to destroy it because it left resemblance of the unmentionable times. But because equality is so curious to learn, unlike anyone else he decides to sneak out every night to explore whatever is in the tunnel. After a very long time, equality has become smarter than he ever become. He has found a way to use the power of the sky in a little globe. This was called the light bulb.
He never knew that such great power can be untainted by man, and now he thinks that if he shows this to the council, then the council might allow him to be a part of the scholars or part of the council itself. He later then gets caught sneaking out to his tunnel. He was sent to the council to be punished, but he must answer where he has been. He refuses to as we're and is lashed until he does so. After weeks of him not answering he then comes up with the perfect plan to escape and show the council his invention and hope that they will forgive him for everything he has done. He finally escapes the jail and runs to his invention. Then he shows the council what he has created. But their response was not what he wanted. The council sees this as a very bad product for the people all around. Earlier they said that the candle was great for the people and it took years before it was actually being used. If this thing where ever to work than it would take just as long or even longer than the candle to be sold anywhere. Equality is furious and storms out of the room before the council can stop him. He ran until he had know Idea where he was, but then he knew. He had just ran into the uncharted forest. Rumors had it that anyone who goes there never comes back. But he kept on going because he knew that if he were tonight captures he would not ever live again. This is the first time equality finds true freedoms in his life. But he still has so much to learn. His first thing he needed to do was to eat. That was now problem for him. He picked up a rock, then chucked it at a flying bird and hit it his first try. He cooked it and ate it, and was it as the first time he had ever really been thankful for the food he was eating. Later on he needed a drink, and for the first time in his life, he sees his own reflection in a pond. He had never know what he had looked like before and was amazed. Equality was tired ,but had to keep going but something stopped him. The golden one. The golden one was his crush that had seen him escape the council and had followed him a ever since. They had fallen In love then. They traveled across ,any mountain ranges and came upon a hous left from the unmentionable times. Equality had read many books then. And finally found the words he was looking for. "I" ,"me" and "my". That was how equality was going to make everything better.
The Hunger Games was also a dystopian society.

Everything was split apart by the Capitol into thirteen districts. But district thirteen was destroyed by the capitols because they didn't follow what the Capitol had wanted them to do. District twelve was the home of Katniss Everdeen. She was very troubled with the fact that every year the Capitol would have celebrate with a game. This game was where one girl and one boy would be chosen from each of the twelve districts, to fight until one winner was left standing. If you put your name into the jar that they draw the name out of more than you need to, then you would get a reward. Katniss did this every year so that way her family wouldn't starve. Her mom and her sister are the only thing she has, but sadly her sister was drawn for the games, but Katniss wouldn't allow it. She volunteered for her little sister instead. So therefore she would have to fight her way to survive. If she wins. Then she will be safe from the drawing for ever. Her mentor Haymitch and the other fighter Peta make their way up to the Capitol. They both have to present their skills in from of the Capitol. Katniss's skill is shooting the bow and arrow. Her first shot she misses, so they lose interest in what she is doing, so she shoots and apple right of one of the capitols game maker's hands. Each person was evaluated and scored. The higher you scored the better. She had the highest score out of every other person that went thought the trial. Haymitch and her think this is strange, because she could have killed him. Soon they would all have to enter the games, and try to survive. Haymitch thinks that she should try to just run instead of going for the bow, so that way she wouldn't get killed right away. So once the game started,she did what he said. She ran for awhile seeing people being killed left and right. But she had managed to survive for that moment. After a couple of days the game makers see that she is doing very well, so they

try to kill her with a lot of fireballs. She had got passed that with a slight problem. She was burned in the leg and it was very hard for her to run or even walk. She made her way to some water to cool her leg down but a gang of people attack her and chase her up a tree. But she had an idea. Once they all fell asleep she would cut down a very poisonous wasp nest and drop it on them. She finally got down from the tree and got her bow. She had then ran for a very long time to lose anybody that was following her. She bad ran into this little girl named Rue. She was twelve years old and was from district eleven. She and Katniss were friends from that point on. They had made plans together, cooked, hunted, fished, gathered and other thing else they had to do to survive. Rue taught Katniss about the mockingbird. Rue whistled and the mockingbirds mimicked they exact whistle. Katniss and Rue came up with the idea to split apart to get more food, and because they split apart, they would have a better chance of finding food. They tried to use the mockingbirds as a signal to tell the other person that they were safe, and they should come back to camp. But when Katniss gave the signal, Rue didn't respond. Katniss started to panick and searched for her, but once she heard Rue, she knew she was in trouble by the tone of her voice. Rue was running then a spear was thrown at her and had killed her. This had sparked Katniss's anger She then later on meets with Peta.’Remember,’ we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.” Ross
And they were know as the star crossed lovers, so they had to keep that lie a reality otherwise when the game makers would kill them. Katniss doesn't like this idea but she knows that if she doesn't commit,or she will be killed or punished for ever. Katniss and Peta after a very long fight finally best everyone else accept each other. But they know that there can only be one winner. So they both get poisonous berries to eat at the same time, so there will not be a winner. But suddenly they were both announced winners of the hunger games. Haymitch,Katniss,and Peta know that they made a great and horrible mistake. That made the Capitol break there own rules, and now the people are worried. But Katniss know that this is the start of how things are going to change for he, and everyone else in the world.
Anthem and The Hunger Games are both very much alike. In both of the books one person is the start to a change. In anthem equality does not favor not being able to leaRn under his own will, or even eat when he wants to. In the Hunger Games Katniss does not like that she and many others are forced to fight each other for the capitals entertainment. This is why these two are so much alike. But they also have their differences. In Anthem they were forced to work where they were assigned. They were forced to eat sleep and bath when they were told to as well. In The Hunger Games, they could do most of these whenever they wanted, but they had to be careful on how they didn't. If they did not follow the capitol's rules, then the would be punished or executed. They both differ each other in those ways. But in the end of both of these that were able to to get what they wanted. They both ended up with freedom.they both had to fight a very mighty war, and within that war was death. If they were to fail, they would have been killed either by the council, or the Capitol.
This is why Anthem and The Hunger Games are dystopian societies. When only a few people know something isn't going right, and everyone else thinks that it is perfectly fine, then the people that know something was going wrong had to finally step it up and fight their own war. They knew that if they didn't fight, then their entire life wouldn't be controlled by themselves. That is why teens can relate to this so much.They feel like they are suffering just like Equality, and Katniss did.