Compare and Contrast

I finished to books based around a what if of the future. One book was the Hunger Games. The first book in the popular trilogy.The other book is Anthem. A classic book that revolves around the lack of individualism written by the author Ayn Rand. For my blog entry I decided to give a rundown of what they have in common and then tell you which one I liked better. So how about we get started.

Lets start out with the Hunger Games. The popular rebel Katniss is known in any city with a media source. Mainly known by the first book Katniss was always trying to put on this macho act for her family to let them know she was there to help. The day comes where she is whisked away to battle to the death with other blood thirsty competitors. She goes into the arena with a boy with a secret crush on her by the name of Peeta. He is extremely strong and crafty but gets himself injured trying to save her. This ended up with her taking care of him as he died very slowly. She ends up saving him and the two of them win the games and the hearts of the audience as the star crossed lovers. The fact that two people lived for the first time started a rebellion within Panem ( the future America ). It then continues into the next books which I will sadly not recommend to anyone.

Next up is Anthem and its screwed up anti-individualist society. For example, the words I,me, and ego are now banned words that will get you burned at the stake and are considered the only punishable crime by death. We start out the book following the boy Equality. What I can't type up for you is the serial code that follows Equality which is a pain to type up. Every job is picked by the government. So every kid out there wanting to be a doctor could be a sewer worker. This same problem occurred with Equality and his wish to be a scholar. He ends up becoming a street sweeper which he finds an old tunnel where he can study things in peace. He meets a girl called Liberty while sweeping the streets one day who he falls in love with at first sight. this is actually a crime as was the wanting a specific job. As these are not the thoughts thought by everyone. As is him finding the old tunnel and not telling anyone. While in his tunnel he discovers electricity and decides to share it with the scholars who turn it away and try to turn him in to the government to be punished for so many supposed crimes. The book ends with Equality and Liberty finding the banned words and living in the ruins of a large building from our current time where they live in peace.

So its time to compare the two of these together. First up is the fact that both of these book are based on a future where war destroyed the world and is taken over by a new government that both have something wrong with them. Then there is the fact that the main character always falls in love with someone as Katniss starts falling in love with peeta and equality instantly falls in love with Liberty.Continuing off the last sentence Liberty and Equality run off together while Peeta and Katniss escape the arena together. Hence they both get out of a tough situation at least once together.I think it's about time I said which one of these books is my favorite. My favorite of the two was Anthem. The reason why is because Anthem was fascinating and didn't need 2 more books to explain everything. Even the fact that Hunger games was 2 times longer didn't even help. I love a good long read but not rhis time.