Comparison between Oz and The Hunger’s games

Comparison between Oz and The Hunger’s games

The Hunger Games shares many similarities to the American fairy tale The Wizards of Oz, but they also differ in many aspects.

On the first place, the two stories start off in a similar way. The main character, a female young woman in poverty, is in her room that shows the misery of the surrounding. Both pieces start narrating the suffering situations of the main characters, the grayness and poverty to their life. In Dorothea’s case involuntarily and in Katniss to save her sister, both of the characters find themselves in a new unknown and magical location full of surprises and unexpected situations. There is also a clear relation between the transformation of the misery and grayness of where they are from to the extravagance to where they go, the Emerald city and the capital, with an extravagance and colorful fashion and colors in general.

The main female character is in both cases followed by a second character that doesn’t play a main role but that it leads to many things, Peeta and Dorothy’s dog Toto.

Dorothea as well as Katniss aim to go home, and to do so they need to kill, the Witch and the other kids in the TV show. Both of the stories have a real cruelty.

Though both of the stories share many similarities, I believe that the ultimate theme and metaphor of the stories are completely different from each other. The emphasis from the writers differ a lot from each other. 

On The Wizard of Oz there is a large significance on the other travelers, her friends and what they desire and why, and on The Hunger’s Game the role of technology and the control of the media and entertainment over the people.