Comparing The Slippery Slope And The Hunger Games

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Have you ever cared about someone, and that affected your decisions in life? My guess is yes because often in real life the people you love and care about affect your decisions greatly. The two books The Slippery Slope and The Hunger Games both teach this lesson throughout their books. In The Slippery Slope, a book about three siblings whose parents had perished in a fire and are on the run from Count Olaf who is trying to get ahold of their parent's fortune. The author (Lemony Snicket) teaches that people you love affect your decisions by using multiple points of view of the three siblings. Hunger Games, a book about survival, is about a poor teen who is picked to be in the Hunger Games and how she survived and how her feelings affect her …show more content…
One thing that is different about these books is the different craft moves that the authors use to teach the reader their lesson. Lemony Snicket teaches the reader by using the sibling's multiple points of view, Suzanne Collins does this by revealing actions throughout the book. The way Lemony Snicket teaches his lesson is by showing how the Baudelaire siblings are thinking throughout the book. What the author does is he usually includes moments when the Baudelaires are thinking about how they miss Sunny because she was kidnapped. So by including all of the sibling's points of view it shows how they all feel and not just one character. But in The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins decides to portray her lesson by using revealing actions. She using revealing actions when Katniss has the ideas to take the berries to save both of their lives. By doing this she shows how much Katniss cares for Peeta because she doesn’t want herself to win and survive she would rather die with Peeta.Another difference between these two books is the difference of how in the Hunger Games most of the story is about survival. But in The Slippery Slope there is a lot about how the important family is. Some people might say that Katniss only helped Peeta because they can win together because the announcement was made. On the other hand, I believe she did this because she loves Peeta and she wanted to help him. I think this because at the end she won’t let herself win and she wants to go down with

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