Similarities Between The Giver And The Hunger Games

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In both books the theme is control, dystopian and the government decides everything. “Two children-one male, one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules” In the Giver they think that they live a perfect world. However, the government hides things from them and they don’t want the people to have feelings. There is no colour or animals and the government has control of the weather. The reason is because they don’t want people to have feelings. They even pick their jobs for them. In The Hunger Games their is social class people who live in the Capitol are very rich. However the other 12 districts are very poor. Each district has a purpose to make something for the Capitol. In the Giver the government tries to make everything the same. They want control of everything and everyone. They try and make the community as sameness as …show more content…

In The Hunger Games they try and control everything “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch-this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their

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