What Are The Similarities Between The Hunger Games And Anthem

Rough Draft Compare and Contrast Essay

Wouldn’t you love to know the similarities and differences between the Hunger Games and Anthem? I know I would. For some people, the Hunger Games represents death, destruction, horrible living environment, and bad leadership. They feel Anthem represents a controlled society with no individualism that is remaking its historical climb into the present technology. I think that both books even though fairly different, have the same subliminal meaning. They both are under an unfair power hungry leadership, are both set in the future, and are both separated into different living places depending on what job they have been given by the government or leader. Now, if you’ve been wondering what some similarities were, then this is the part of the essay for you.

Both the Hunger Games and Anthem are separated into places for certain jobs & people. In the Hunger Games they have 12 districts and each district plays a different role in society. In Anthem they have the different house for different jobs or tasks. They both are assigned to where they have to work and live. In Hunger Games you aren’t allowed to go to the other districts and in Anthem you aren’t

allowed to go in any other houses or do other jobs. “Dare, not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.” (Rand 1.20) They both have these certain places like the districts and houses because of their leaders.
They both have a bad ‘leader’ or ‘higher class’. In the Hunger Games they have President Show and Seneca Crane and in Anthem they had the Council of Vocations. President Snow and the Council are both power-hungry. They both don’t like when someone goes against them. They must have everything their way and nothing ‘out of place’. “Take our brother Equality 7-2521 to the Palace of Corrective Detention. Lash them until they tell.” (Rand 6.7) Since these leaders were in control of everything they decided the randomly choose people to participate in something.
They both had a ‘raffle’ of names in their society. In the Hunger Games people are randomly selected at the Reaping to take part in the Hunger Games. In Anthem they are selected for the House of Mating. They both had randomly selected people to participate in something. They both had people eager to be a part of it. In the Hunger Games kids from Districts 1 & 2 train their entire life them volunteer as tribute. In Anthem there are people that are excited to go into the House of Mating for reasons such as repopulation and keeping the species alive. Both have people that come out alive. In Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta both survive, and in Anthem everyone survives. “ Each of the men have one of the women assigned to them by the Council of Eugenies. Children are born each winter, but women never their kids and kids never know their parents.” (Rand 2.13) The ‘raffle’ of names in pretty much a life or death situation in the Hunger Games and a good thing in Anthem.
There was fighting in one and mating in the other.

In the Hunger Games they picked people to into the arena and fight to an almost imminent death. In Anthem they picked people to go into the palace and produce children. In the Hunger Games it is decreasing the population count because people die. In Anthem it is increasing the population count because a lot of children are being born. “And we sighed as if a burden had been taken from us, for we had been thinking without reason of the Palace of Mating. And we thought that we would not let the Golden One be sent to the palace. How to prevent it, how to bar the will of the councils, we knew not, but we knew suddenly that we would.” (Rand 2.35) Just like between the two books with fighting or mating there is individualism and

collectivism.
One has Individualism, one has Collectivism. In the Hunger Games they have individualism where it is like normal life. They use words such as “I, me, am, myself, us”. In Anthem they have collectivism where there are no individuals] everyone is equal. They use words such as “we, they, them, ourself, their”. Hunger Games is more like real life and how people think something would be. Anthem is more like “These are our rules. You must follow them.” Everyone is equal and the same under one leading or driving force. “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great ‘We’, one, indivisible and forever.” (Rand 1.8) As I close off this essay with my conclusion I hope you have gained some knowledge on the topic at hand. For some people, the Hunger Games represents death, destruction, horrible living environment, and bad leadership. They feel Anthem represents a controlled society with no individualism that is remaking its historical climb into the present technology. I think that both books even though fairly different, have the same subliminal meaning. They both are under an unfair power hungry leadership, are both set in the future, and are both separated into different living places depending on what job they have been given by the government or leader. Well all and all I hope you learned that even though the Hunger Games and Anthem, at first glance seem completely different. They are actually quite similar.