Hunger Games Movie And Book Comparison

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The amazing series of the world of the hunger games is an amazing series full of theories and what ifs? In the series you follow Katniss Everdeen on her journey to save her family and herself from poverty by playing in the hunger games. This amazing series was fortunate enough to have a novel and films serious to keep the fans hungry for more information entertained. But as we all know in every series that has a novel and a film like the famous series of Harry Potter we all know there's a little bit of differences from the novel and book. Theres 3 main differences from the novel and the book. The big first difference is how in the novel its written in first person while the movie is in a third person's perspective. Next is how the movie goes more into detail about the characters more than in the book. Lastly in the film the character Effie trinket is never mentioned in the film.
The perspective of the novel the novel and the film are two big differences for those who watched the movie and read the novel. In the movie the story is played in 3rd person view where everybody character's story gets more into detail a little bit. In the movie Katniss finds out about more things and figures them out, also in the movie certain actions are being performed in where the
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In the movie we all see her as happy go person who was picking out who should be the tributes in the 74th annual hunger games. As she puts her hand in the draw she selects Katniss’s little sister Primrose but Katniss volunteers to protect her sister. Then she selects Peeta. In the movie she escorts Katniss and Peeta in the train with Haymitch shows them luxury of the capitol gets then clean, bathes them and shower them in the finest clothes designed by Cinna. But the strange thing is she doesn't appear in the novel not even once or is not named. I wonder why they would not include her in the novel but the

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