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Hunger Games Harry Potter
The trilogy of hunger games written by Suzanne Collins is a young
adult dystopian genre. The Hunger Games is a dystopian book. A Hi everyone! I just read the “Harry Potter Series” which consists of to-
dystopia is a society or community which is undesirable or frighten- tal 8 books which are Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, Harry
ing or oppressing. Hunger games is a book set in an oppressing so- Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
ciety which came about as a series of events leading to the fall of
America and from the ashes of it the new system is born. The sys- Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Or-
tem is bad, it sees the mistakes of its predecessor and tries to learn der of Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter
from it and not repeat those mistakes. But in their quest for creat- and the Deathly Hallows and the last is Harry Potter and the Cursed
ing an ideal society they end up making matters worse and changing Child. The entire series is written by J.K. Rowling.
fundamental rules of humanity. Like oppressing people’s right to ex- It is written that the enemy ‘Lord Voldemort’ tries to kill everyone
press ideas, dictatorship etc. (witches &wizards) and thus tries to kill the young boy of the Potters
In hunger games we get to see that if our world ever ends up ‘Harry’. But somehow he fails to kill the young boy and loses his magical
like a dystopian society, what are the consequences that we will powers and he vanishes. Harry is left with nothing but a scar on his
face. Through fiction it shows us one frightening scenario and takes forehead shaped like a lightning bolt. From then onwards he is shifted
us into an adventure of living in such an oppressive society. From from his own ruined house to his uncle’s house. And from now onwards
the character’s point of view, we feel their frustration and how they begins the story of a boy who learnt magic, made friends at the school,
manage to survive in such a society without bending to its oppres- fought with dangers, etc.
sion and giving in to their circumstances. This novel teaches us how
to survive, which battles to pick, and why it is important that we I love the story because they are full of mysteries, suspense and of
fight the society determined to control us; Why we should be the course adventures. He faces all the problems of a normal teenage boy.
masters of our life, resisting the society designed to break us. If you like reading books on magic and mystery, this book series is for
This novel focuses on adventure, family and making a better society you. But I want to warn you these books are easy to pick up but hard to
and way to survival. It takes us on a breath-taking adventure in a put down because you are not in the virtual world and our inner voice
strange world and we learn to get amused by the character’s per- says what will be next and we too don’t want to lose the track.
sonality. I think all of us will find this book quite entertaining and in- The author has written many other books like The Casual Vacancy, The
teresting. We will be intrigued by this book and its exceptional Cuckoo’s Calling and many more. I’m trying to grab some of them to
writing and a masterpiece of a story will capture our hearts. read.
Simran Choudhari (IX) Vedant Jadhav (VIII)
