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What Are The Similarities Between Divergent And The Hunger Games

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In my opinion Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games, and Veronica Roth, author of Divergent, had similar ideas but presented them in different ways. Some similarities in the two book series is that both were dystopian fiction, both had strong female leads and both societies rebelled against authority. Although the books had many similarities, they also had many differences. In Divergent the protagonist, Tris, died at the end while Katniss, the Hunger Games protagonist, lived. In Divergent the characters got to choose which faction they wanted to live in the year they turned sixteen while the Hunger Games’ characters were born into their districts and remained there. Also, Tris had an older brother while Katniss had a younger sister.

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