Wool And The Hunger Games Synthesis Essay

Wool and The Hunger Games are novels written by Suzanne Collins and Hugh Howey. The Hunger Games is an adventurous novel based in the future. It follows a girl called Katniss and how she survives The Hunger Games. Collin’s novel has won several awards and the series has currently made over $275 million dollars. Wool is based on a women named Jule’s, she experiences severe situation which changes the Silo, the only place she has known. Sunday Times suggests the novel is the next Hunger Games as its New York Times bestseller.
Collins and Howey use flashbacks, imagery and mood to make comments on the societies within the texts.

A flashback occurring in Wool is, “She remembered the trouble when she’d been caught cutting a plastic tie from an electrical board”. This indicates that resources are valuable. Society told not to dispose of useful materials and therefore follow the rules. This shows the conformity of Wools society and how they are

This quote from Wool displays imagery as the words create images. An old man’s body lowering into soil is the image the author portrays. The quote is another example of the resourceful society exhibited in Wool. Instead of disregarding the body elsewhere, society created a social norm and decided it was acceptable to place bodies in the garden to feed plants. Everything has a purpose in Wool’s society.
The literary technique displays similarities between both novels. Both the societies are portrayed as hardworking and independent. Another similarity is the resourcefulness of both societies, working in the mine to gain food stamps and using a decomposing body as food for plants. However, although both societies are similar they work hard for different reasons. Jule’s worked for hours every day as she enjoyed what she was accomplishing. However, majority from District 12 worked because they needed food put on the