Hunger Games Vs The Lottery

The Hunger Games Contrast

• Future
• A chance of living if chosen
• About 8000 people involved
• Clear Bowl (reaping bowl)
• For punishment

Comparisons

• both choosing someone for death
• No age limits or discrimination on who is chosen
• traditions - ritual murder
• Draw names (black box/reaping bowl)
• due to and or involve to politics

The Lottery Contrast

• Past
• No chance of living if chosen
• About 300 people involved
• Black Box (coffin)
• To keep a tradition alive

Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games, must have read The Lottery because they both have parallel traditions and events to unite them.