There are many ways that the hunger games compare to the dystopian genre. Firstly the capitol is a amzing technological advancement compared to the cities of today. Next is that the hunger games does not have a good past that involves a rebillion and alot of death. 75 years before the hunger games was created, the 13 districts rebelled against the captiol. the capitol cruhed them and now there are only 1 districts left. Here are some ways the hunger games compares to the dystopian genre

Comparisons

There are many comparisons between the hunger games and Theseus and the minotaur. These include tradition and sacrifice to a higher power. For example, it is a tradition to the districts to sacrifice a male and female team to the capitols to fight in a gory bloodbath. In theseus and the minotaur, the athenians tradition is to sacrifice 14 kids and teens to Crete because they were beaten in war.  The other similarity is that they are sacrificing the kids and teens to a higher power. In the hunger games, the capitol beat the districts in the revolution and as a sign to remember these awful times the capitol created the hunger games. In theseus and the minotaur, the reason why the Athenians have to sacrifice the children to Crete is so that they do not get attacked again.


Contrast

There are some differences between the hunger games and theseus and the minotaur. One difference is the main characters motive.   In the hunger games, katnisses motive is to protect prim from entering in the hunger games while theseuses takes a more violent otive and wants to kill the minotaur

For my snippet I choose the line " And sings the tune without words." I chose this snippet because it reminds me of the mocking jay and how they can not speak, but they can repeat melodies. Katniss used them to keep her alive because they allowed her to communicate with rue.

I think the poem means that hope can keep you alive and going no matter how hard the challenges get. This poem makes me think this because in the last stanza it says that " Ive heard in the chilliest of lands and on the strangest sea but yet,never, in eternity, it asked a crumb of me. " This symbolizes that hope is plentiful and can get you through even the toughest challenges of life.

There are many comparisons between the  lottery and the hunger games. The most outstanding comparison between these two stories is that both of the two stories do sacrafices because of tradition. In the hunger games, they sacrafice a teen from each distrit to fight in the hunger games to portect their district from the capitol attaccking them. Meanwhile in the lottery, The tradition to hold the lottery exists because they think by sacraficing someone it will give them good harvest for the rest of the year. This a comparison between the hunge