Differences Between The Hunger Games Movie And Book

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Most commonly when a book is turned into a film such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, there are many significant changes. Some fail to depict the writer’s thoughts when filming the movie; the alterations of the book to film are to add up to a thrill that the movie makers want to create for the audience to keep them tied into the film. The book is a better choice as it shows and tells more about Katniss’s strengths and some of her weaknesses. Katniss Everdeen reveals herself as being a character of a great heart and compassion in both the book and film for the ones that she loves. Collins shows this in both the book and movie as Katniss’s younger sibling Prim is selected in the reaping to compete in the games and she screams out,

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