Is The Hunger Games based off The Lottery?

Is The Hunger Games based off The Lottery?

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is very similar to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is a seventy-four-year-old lottery that selects twenty-four kids, as young as thirteen, and sends them into a rink to fight to the death.

What did Hunger Games rip off of?

screengrab There’s been a lot of talk going around since “The Hunger Games” came out that it’s a direct rip off of another book/film from more than a decade ago: “Battle Royale,” in which children are similarly forced to fight to the death by the government.

Did Hunger Games steal from Battle Royale?

Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games, was born in 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut. The Hunger Games is actually plagiarized from the Japanese film, Battle Royale, which was produced in 2000.

How is The Lottery different to The Hunger Games?

In “The Lottery” their tradition is to kill a person that is randomly chosen by using a lottery. To compare, in “The Hunger Games” children are also picked out of a lottery from each district and if they are chosen, they need to fight against each other to death.

What does The Lottery say about tradition?

Yet, subtle hints throughout the story, as well as its shocking conclusion, indicate that the villagers’ tradition has become meaningless over time. What’s particularly important about tradition in “The Lottery” is that it appears to be eternal: no one knows when it started, and no one can guess when it will end.

How is the reaping in The Hunger Games similar to The Lottery?

Also, the more times a person name is entered into the Reaping, the more food their family receives. This relates back to the The Lottery as their sacrifice allows the village to receive more food. Additionally, the ritual which chooses the sacrifice in both stories are very similar.

What is the irony in the lottery?

Irony is when the use of words is used to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” the irony is that everyone is trying to lose the lottery instead of winning because if you win you will be stoned.