Have you ever read a book and the seen the movie, and thought they were so different? The book The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is contrast from the movie The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross. In the entire movie you don’t know how the main character, Katniss, feels but in the book you know how she feels about everything. Also, the book explains what the Hunger Games are, and why they host them, and in the movie it doesn’t. The love Katniss feels with Peeta is also different than the Katniss has in the book.

The book, The Hunger Games is told in the first person point of view, which is Katniss. She tells you how she feels about hunting, her family, and how she feels about the two guys, Gale and Peeta, loving her. Katniss says, “… Gale and I are really good friends, he helps me take care of Prim and my mother, and helps his mother take care of his younger brothers. I think of Gale as a brother. We sometimes Go hunting together and split it evenly.” This shows that Katniss only sees Gale as a really good friend. When Katniss partners up with Peeta for the Hunger Games she says to herself, “Don’t be so stupid. Peeta is planning how to kill you, I reminded myself. He is luring you to in to make you easy prey. The more likable he is, the more deadly he is. But two can play it that way. I kissed him…” This line shows that she is only messing with him so Peeta can assume she likes him and so Peeta won’t try to kill her.

The movie shows that Katniss hunting, but you don’t know if she’s having fun or if she’s scared. You also don’t know how she learned to hunt. Everyone assumes her friend, Gale, taught her but in the book she says, “… my dad taught me how to shoot an arrow and where the best place to shoot an animal is.”

The book explains more about why they have the Hunger Games. The reason the hunger games started was because it was a small price to pay for remembering the depression of district 13. However, the movie doesn’t really explain why they host the hunger games. The audience assumes that the game makers and the judge have them for fun and just want to make a show for themselves and the districts.

Is Katniss in love with Peeta? You wouldn’t know from the movie. In the book it said Katniss’s love for Peeta was fake. The book explained why she pretended she had feelings for Peeta. She wanted him to believe that she loved him, so that he wouldn’t kill his love. However in the movie, Peeta shows Katniss he had feelings and told her that he wanted to win together. Katniss on the other hand went along with it and kissed him but the audience doesn’t really know how she really feels about him.

So as you just heard the movie and the book have no similarities. The book gives you more information about why they have the hunger games, Katniss true feelings about Peeta and Gale. That why the book is better then the movie.