The Hunger Games: Comparing The Book And Movie

The Hunger Games: Fight to the Finish

In the adaptation of the film The Hunger Games and the book of The Hunger Games they portray very different characteristics. The filmmakers deviated the Hunger Games scenes in a more dramatic way than before. Representing District 13, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark were forced to go and compete in the 74th Hunger Games and fight for their lives. But as these scenes progressed they both get very captivating and very dramatic in both the book and the film. This film has made huge fluctuations to the fighting scene than they did in the book. In The Hunger Games book, during the fighting scene, the capital did not give as much help nor did they have all of the capabilities they did in the fighting scene

of The Hunger Games movie. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark had to prove to every single one of the contributors at the beginning of the 74th Hunger Games that they had the capabilities to survive and win together. Without the contributors in each event none of the tributes would have not have been able to survive. Katniss and Peeta both had to realize the significance of many things that happened and would happened if they didn’t act the way they did during the 74th Hunger Games in the book and film.
The Hunger Games book got published in 2008, the film did not come out until 2012. The film is a very big adaptation from the book. The actual 74th Hunger Games scene is in the book and the film. The 74th Hunger Games scene is where Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark go fight for their lives against people from the other twelve districts. Although these scenes are in the book and the film they are different in many ways. They had never seen, or had contact with, any of the other tributes that they were fighting against before this event. The scene leading up the Hunger Games scene is when they go to the Capitol and start their training to fight for their lives. This training was to prove their strength both mentally and physically. While Katniss and Peeta are at the Capitol they are to go out and show off who they are at the tribute parade. Before Peeta and Katniss go out into the tribute parade, Peeta suggests that they should hold hands and takes Katniss’ hand first, but in the book it is Cinna that suggests them to. This is important that Cinna suggests this because it makes them realize that they need to start liking each other to get more contributors on their side. He also does this to show all of the contributors that they get along and support each other in every way. But how Peeta is the one to take Katniss’ hand first, it shows that he has grown as a person and he really wants to win the fight and win the crowd over. As they are riding out to the tribute parade in the film, all of the tributes horses are black along with their chariot. But as they ride out in the book, it says that all of the horses are different colors and different breeds. This is a very significant detail in both because it is representing in the book that they are all different in every way, shape, and form. But as it shows in the film that they are all black it is representing that there is no difference in any of them and that what is about to happen is going to be very depressing.
After the tribute parade was over and the training was completed, Katniss, Peeta and the rest of the tributes are now ready for the 74th Hunger Games. In the film, all of the tributes enter the arena wearing a different colored jacket that is representing the district that they are from. But as they enter the arena in the book it tells us that they all have on a matching black leather jacket. In the film, all of the different colored jackets are representing that they are all different
and that none of them are the same. But in the book, it is meaning that they are all one team and they are all going out there to do the same thing as everyone else.
As the 74th Hunger Games begins, they all being fighting to win the battle against each other.

At the beginning of this scene, it shows that Katniss received a small metal water bottle in the film, however, the water bottle she received in the book was plastic and half of a gallon. This is meaning that all of the contributors gave a lot more in the book rather the film. Also that she had more fans on her side rooting for her in the book and she didn’t do something right in the film. In the film, Katniss finds out that Peeta is with a group of other tributes after they killed a girl from district eight. Showing in the film that Peeta is actually with the other tributes and getting along with them in the movie shows that he is trying to get everyone he can on his team during the games. However, in the book, Katniss finds out that Peeta volunteers to go back and kill the girl from district eight by himself. This is making Peeta sound more sentimental and more caring rather than the film. At the end of the first day in the book it says that only eleven tributes had been killed. But it showed in the film that thirteen tributes had been killed. Having more people die is showing that they are taking this more serious and they are way more ruthless in the film and not the book. While Katniss took a nap in a tree she was awoken by animals running away from a fire that the capitol started. On the other hand, in the film she is awoken by only the fire and there were not any animals

shown running away.
On the third day, Katniss is chased up a tree by a group of other tributes that are trying to kill her.

They never had the success in killing her, so they waited for her to come down but while they were waiting they all fell asleep. During the next morning in the book it says that Katniss thinks of a plan to cut down a branch that had tracker jackers on. In the movie it shows that Rue wakes up Katniss and points to the branch that the tracker jackers were on and gives her the idea to cut down the branch. Cutting down the branch would make the tracker jackers land on the other tributes attack as well as killing them. In the book how Katniss was the one to think of the plan to cut down the branch is trying to show that she is strong minded and she is very independent. But as Rue shows her in the film, it is showing that intelligence doesn’t just come with age. Intelligence comes with experience and that anyone at any age can show their skill. Also it is showing that Rue was on Katniss’ side and Rue wanted the other tributes dead.. Once this day was over, many of the tributes had gotten killed by the other tributes. In the book, hovercrafts pick up all of the eleven tributes that were killed as soon as they were killed. But then, in the film the hovercraft only comes for Rue after she got poisoned by one of the other tributes while trying to help Katniss. This part of the scene in the film is very significant because it is showing that the Capitol as a whole is trying to show

that they are respectful and that they pay tribute. But as the Capitol does that it just makes Rue’s district angrier. This starts a riot throughout Rue’s district. This is very important because it is showing that her district cares about her and that the government should not make anyone be in the Hunger Games. This scene is also relating to the real world because it is showing that movies can relate to reality by retaliating.