Compare And Contrast Hunger Games And Star Wars

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Hunger Games, Star Wars, and Ender’s Game have both similarities and differences in their approach to ‘Call to Adventure’, ‘Refusal’, and ‘Crossing the Threshold’ in the Hero’s Journey.
Their ‘Call to Adventure’ all consist of one person coming and either asking something of the hero or heroine or the hero or heroine offers to do something for the person who showed up. For Hunger Games, Katniss offers to enter the Hunger Games instead of Prim. In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi asks Luke Skywalker if he wants to come with him to defeat the Dark Side. For Ender’s Game, Graff comes and asks Ender if he wants to come to Battle School. The heroine or hero in Hunger Games and Star Wars both made a decision extremely quickly (rejecting Kenobi’s invitation,

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