The Hunger Games
Comparing to Greek Mythology
About The Hunger Games:
Featuring Katniss Everdeen as the Protagonist:
Comparing Hunger Games To Greek Mythology
Comparison of President Snow and Greek Myths
President Snow is like Zeus. They are unlikable main characters. They are like the arch enemies. President Snow is also like a Greek God or Goddess. Since he is a ruler, and tells what people need to do, that kind of makes him like a God or a Goddess. He is obsessed with seeing the kids die every year. It is basically the same thing as Pyramus and Thisbe being obsessed with each other, and only each other.
Comparison of Traumatic Events with Greek Myths
Since this book is called the "Hunger Games", it has to do with fighting to the death. People die in this book by starving to death or being killed by anyone else, and at least 22/24 people need to die. Pyramus and Thisbe died from being stabbed to death. People in the Hunger Games have been stabbed to death. Katniss stabbed people with an arrow.
Comparison of Characters Going On Journeys with Greek Myths
Katniss and Peeta went on an adventure. They went to the capital to start preparing for the Hunger Games. It was kind of an adventure. They saw the difference between what their houses look like to here. Everything here is a lot nicer. But at the end, it's like hell. In Orpheus and Eurydice, Orpheus went on an adventure, to hell. He needed to get his love back. So he went to hell where his love is. So both of these stories had basically the same adventure the characters went on.