Survival In The Hunger Games, By Suzanne Collins

In a nonfictional account of the Holocaust, Eliezer, a Jewish boy, must endure months spent in multiple concentration camps; experiencing hunger, loss, pain, genocide, and desperation. In Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his experience of the Holocaust in 1944 Nazi Germany and allows the reader to get a deeper look into what it was really like for a young boy in a concentration camp.When Eliezer gets sent to the first camp, his family is split up but he gets to stay with his father. Throughout the novel Eliezer and his dad rely on each other to keep each other going and to keep one another alive. The presence of Eliezer’s father gave him the will to keep going and to have hope that one day their family may be reunited. However, at a point in the novel Eliezer was so desperate and overtaken by hunger, that he began to think only of himself. Wiesel uses Eliezer’s internal struggle to show that …show more content…
In the novel, teenagers are forced to fight one another to the death in order to be the one survivor. ”one young man and woman to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches…” This relates to the themes in Night because even though the teens may not want to kill each other initially, in the end they do what they need to in order to survive. The same thing happens in Night, the Jews get so desperate that they would go through anyone in order to get a mere scrap of food, “Don’t you recognize me? I’m you father.. you’re hurting me.. you’re killing your father! I’ve got some bread for you too!” (106). This shows just how prominent the instinct to survive is in humans. The reality of the Holocaust and the dystopian universe that The Hunger Games takes place in, both use in desperation of their situations to show that people are more likely to turn on one another if it means that their chances of survival will be bigger after the