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The Goonies And The Hunger Games: The Hero's Journey

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The Goonies and The Hunger Games are similar and different regarding The Hero's Journey such as Test Allies and Enemies, The Mentor, and the Reward Each has a number of key differences and key similarities. Each can demonstrate the hero's journey. The Goonies have the Fratellis as one of their Enemies chasing them down because they don't want them to find the treasure nor want them to tell the cops where they are. In The Hunger Games Katniss has to fight for her life against almost everyone and she has to fight for a very long period of time before she wins the Hunger Games. A key similarity is that they are both basically fighting/trying to get their prize/victory for example Katniss is trying to win The Hunger Games and the Goonies are trying to get the …show more content…

He tells Katniss how to win the hunger games and how to seem more intimidating. In the goonies, their mentor is a map which is a lot different than a human helping and directing them. The Hunger Games and The Goonies both have a type of mentor that can be very rocky. The map for the Goonies was very misleading in a way because they followed the map down into the cave and it didn’t show any treasure so they had to find it themselves which almost got them killed 4 times. Haymitch was pretty much always drunk so sometimes he would say a bunch of stuff that may have sounded rude and may have been confusing and could have possibly resulted in Katniss's death. The Goonies and the Hunger Games rewards were very similar, The goonies almost had to sell their house since they came back empty-handed. The Fratellis took all of their gems and diamonds until the maid that was helping them move found gems in jackets which saved their houses and

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