The Hansel and Gretel stories can relate to the Hunger Games because their motivation is hunger as well. They come from a poor family and their parents do not have enough money to feed their children. In order to make their lives a little less stressful, they lure their children into the woods and leave them behind. In Brothers Grimm Hansel and Gretel it states “Listen to me, answered the wife. “Tomorrow at the break of day we’ll take the children out into the darkest part of the woods. We’ll make a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread…They’ll never find their way home, and then we’ll be rid of them” (Grimm 184). Hansel decides to leave a trail behind to get back home but it does not work. There are different versions of Hansel
