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- 1. The Hunger Games and Divergent Science fiction is the search for definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge, and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mould.—Brian W. Aldiss in Trillion Year Spree: the History of Science Fiction (London, 1986). While science fiction movie are usually scientific, more futuristic and probably advanced in technology gadget. This kind of movie often express the potential of technology destroy humankind through events, such as wars, rebellion and disaster. In this few years, two of the most popular science fiction movie of all ages falling in love with are The Hunger Games director by Gary Ross and Divergent director by Neil Burger. Both of this movie are transform from a teenage novel but they are still different in certain point such as plot, characters and themes. According to Suzanne Collins the writer of The Hunger Games say that this movie is about a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected randomly to participate in The Hunger Games. This game are a televised games and broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors while the citizens of Panem are required to watch. When 16-year- old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta Mellark, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives. On the other hand, according to the writer of Divergent, Veronica Roth said that this movie is a futuristic society where the five factions are the basis of the whole function which is Dauntless, Abnegation, Amity, Erudite, and Candor. Beatrice Prior discovers that she's Divergent, therefore does not fit in to one faction. If she is discovered, she will be
- 2. killed. She tries to keep her Divergence a secret, but throughout her vigorous training, she reveals to the trainer, Tobias Four, her ability to manipulate the test and that she is Divergent. Soon Beatrice and Four discover a plot to overthrow the government, killing hundreds in the process, and they must do what they can to stop it. With the power of Divergence, they may just be the only ones able to save their whole world. Between this two movies, The Hunger Games is more towards violent, they need to massacre one another. While Divergent is more to finding a way to hide lies and keep ourselves survive. Moreover, the main two actress in this two movies have different characteristics. For Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games is strong because as a sixteen-year-old girl she is far more mature than her age would suggest. She is the main provider in her family after her dad had passed away in a mines explosion. On the other hand. Beatrice Prior in Divergent was poor self- esteem compare to Katniss Everdeen. She can be a straight up wrong a lot of the time. For example, Beatrice is the kind of girl who notices when there's a conspiracy to use her current faction to kill off her former faction, but she doesn't notice when a guy likes her. Katniss can’t be poor self-esteem as Beatrice because she had to take care of her mother and also her younger sister, Prim. For the actor, Peeta in The Hunger Games show a characteristic of helpful. In the movie, he helped save Katniss’s family from starvation by giving her loaves of bread when she was a child. Peeta's kindness probably saved the lives of Katniss and her family. While Tobias is the opposite of Peeta, he is poor and useless. For example, Beatrice competes to stay in Dauntless and succeeds not entirely because of him. She mostly seems to do well in the rankings because she's Divergent and that's where her true power lies. Tobias left her away when she get punched.
- 3. Last but not least, the theme in this two movie were totally different. In the movie of The Hunger Games, it consist the theme of inequality between rich and poor. In Panem, wealth is heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich, particularly those people living in the Capitol and certain of the districts, and the result is a huge disparity between their lives and the lives of the poor. For those poor they don’t even have enough to eat and choice to live with. While the themes in Divergent is identity & Choices. In this movie Beatrice as a Divergent, her choice of faction defines her more than anything else does. Though her aptitude test is inconclusive, she could be a match to Abnegation, Erudite, or Dauntless. She had more option than Katniss who just force to participate the Games. In a nutshell, I prefer The Hunger Games rather than Divergent because of Katniss’s characteristic. She is very independence and responsible than a normal 16 years old girl. Even though this both movies were different but they is still share some same point. According to Veronica Roth, both movie had the setting of a dystopia. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia. A utopia is an ideal society which doesn’t exist. In “Divergent”, the protagonist, who is a heroin, is and in “The Hunger Games”, it’s Katniss. The dystopias in both stories were destroyed in the end causing an uproar lead by the protagonists.
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