Hero's Journey: Similarities And Differences Between Hunger Games And The Goonies

The Hero’s Journey Similarities and Differences Between Hunger Games and Goonies

The Hunger Games and The Goonies have many similarities and differences in how the author used the Hero’s Journey.

Tests/Allies/Enemies

One similarity between the Hunger Games and the Goonie's tests/allies/enemies section of the book is they both set off on their quest/adventure not to lose something they hold close/dear to them. In The Hunger Games, Katniss doesn’t want to lose Prim; in The Goonies, the Goonie’s don’t want to leave their houses and disband. Near the beginning of the Goonies, the Goonies say, “This is our last Goonie weekend together.” They don’t want to leave. One difference between The Hunger Games and The Goonies is when the adventure started in Hunger Games, it was Katniss on her own closing out all other people, and in Goonies, the Goonies rely on teamwork to get through booby traps and other tests. Another difference between Hunger Games and Goonies is Katniss is fighting to the death with 23 other teens; the Goonies face a family of criminals called The Fretalies and boobie traps laid out by One-Eyed Willy.

Ordinary World

The Hunger Games takes place in a dystopian society in the future where everything has fallen apart and collapsed. The Goonies takes place in a semi-modern time in Astoria, Oregon. One similarity is Goonies and The Hunger Games have bad things that have been happening in the ordinary world. In the Hunger Games, there is an event called the Hunger Games where they pick a boy and a girl from each of the 12 districts to fight to the death until there is one left standing. In The Goonies, a rich neighborhood is buying the normal neighborhood and replacing it with a golf