Authors Note: In this
piece I wrote an essay on comparing and contrasting the themes Survival and
Sadness throughout both books. I also added a paragraph comparing these themes
to slavery
Imagine yourself
dealing with having to survive in the wilderness and finding your own food, or
constantly thinking about your family and hoping there somewhere safe. Sadness
and Survival are two themes that both main characters in the Hunger Games and Woods Runner have to experience. Despite Survival and
Sadness being two main themes that Hunger
Games and Woods Runner share both main characters are nearly driven
to insanity. Survival and Sadness are two main themes that Woods Runner and Hunger Games
have, however both themes compare and contrast to each other. In addition both
themes really connect to how life was for slaves back in the 1800’s.
Throughout both novels the survival theme was a definite
one. In both books the main characters were constantly hunting for food, and
watching their back. Each character wasn't alone though they both had an ally
to help them out. Regarding similarities these books they did has some
differences with the theme. Constantly in Hunger
Games there were surprises were being thrown at the contestants whereas in Woods Runner the survival aspect wasn't as intense as Hunger Games. Back in Revolutionary War
times were tough and sometimes your family was captured, throughout Woods Runner the main character has to
deal with this where the main character of Hunger
Games never had to deal with this.
Despite survival being one theme sadness was also one too.
When comparing these two novels to the theme sadness, Samuel and Katniss both
families get taken away from them and they always have the thought lingering in
their mind. Where each main character lived seemed to back a broken down sad
area. Both novels describe how many people saw their family members die and the
thought of true sadness is defiantly there. Though these books have the
similarities they do have their differences. The main differences between both
these book is Katniss has to experience more loss of family members than Samuel throughout Hunger Games. Whereas in Woods
Runner Samuel gets his parents back, but he doesn't have to experience the
death of a parent.
Seeing that both books dealt with survival and sadness they
both reminded me about salivary. Back when slavery was big children got taken
away from their parents and would mostly likely never see them again. The
slaves also had the factor of survive the treacherous heat and sometimes having
to get their own food. Salves had a tough life not being able to see their
family and having almost to survive on their own. Throughout Hunger Games and Woods Runner the themes
survival and sadness related a lot to the lives of slaves , which really shows
how hard life was for both main characters.
Throughout both books the themes survival and sadness really
played a factor, and comparing these themes to slavery really showed the hard
life for both main characters. During both books the main character both had
their insanely tough challenges for them, both main characters were able though
to accomplished these challenges by showing their mental toughness.
