Hunger Games Vs Maze Runner Essay

When you think of two books that are about having a bad future, two books you probably think of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner. This is because they are both fast-paced books that take place in the future. Though both of these books have the same theme of fighting for survival and are dystopian novels, both of the books display different ways of expressing the same theme. The Hunger Games takes place in the future, where the U.S. is divided into 12 districts and the capitol. A boy and a girl from each district are chosen to be put in an arena fight for their lives. The Maze Runner also takes place in the future, where there is a huge disease killing everybody. So, every month a teen boy is brought to the maze and they have to figure out a way to escape out of the maze, while battling robot creatures. The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner are both dystopian novels. They are both about bad society and bad futures for the world. In both of the books, some characters getting murdered by other characters/creatures. Though their reasons on how and why the characters got killed are different. In The Hunger Games they are forced to kill each other to remind all the people that the capitol rules all the districts, but in The Maze Runner the characters are killed to see who can survive the disease and help …show more content…
In The Hunger Games characters died throughout the whole story, but in The Maze Runner the characters that died, died towards the end of the story. Both stories have an enemy who was in higher power than the main heroes. In The Hunger Games, the enemy was the capitol and mainly the president who lives there. In The Maze Runner it was the scientists and W.I.C.K.E.D (an organization that created the mazes). The Maze Runner had robot creatures killing the characters and making them go crazy, while in The Hunger Games the characters killed each