The Hunger Games By Susan Collins: Literary Analysis

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution involving natural selection and the survival of the fittest links to The Hunger Games by Susan Collins. Darwin’s idea of the natural selection is the way how species adopt to the environment. Charlotte wood’s ‘Natural way of things’, and Susan Collins ‘The Hunger Games’, depicts Darwin’s idea of natural selection through people adopting with unknown environment’s in order to survive.

Natural selection is the adoption of species with the environment. Where Darwin notes (1817, pg.1) “great power of adopting his habits to new conditions of life. He invents weapons, tools, and various stratagems to procure food and to defend himself”. This demonstrates his theory of evolution through the process of survival of the fittest through changing environments, in order to survive you need to be fit. Darwin’s theory of evolution by

The novel depicts two female that are been captive, where they waken up each morning not knowing where they are which they have been drugged out. Wood (2015), displays the scene of not knowing where the two girls are through the novel where she states “She hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need to know where I am (pg.24) The two women are noted to be in a prison type of location, where the two women are guarded with people where they have to get their hair shaved off. Wood’s (2015), ‘The natural way of things’, demonstrates the way how two women are in outback where they have to survive on their own, where they are been give jobs to do. This depicts, Darwin’s idea of the natural selection where people need to survive in order to live. Although Darwin’s idea of natural selection is captured in the novel, through the two characters ‘Yolanda’ and ‘Isobel’, being put to hard labour, and their two male guards treating Yolanda and Isobel impersonally and