Tatyana Parker Lit 322 Professor January 22, 2022 Final Project Milestone 1 A similar thread in Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games and Cormac McCarthy's The Road is undoubtedly the concept of violence because it is not only prominent in both works, but it also emphasizes the savagery of violence and, as a result, supports its reversal. It has its origins in the novel The Hunger Games, which is set in a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian system and centers on an event with the same name wherein 24 adolescents are chosen at random to murder each other until only one winner survives. In The Road, violence manifests itself in a variety of ways. The plot is set in a post-apocalyptic future where, unlike in The Hunger Games, civilization has completely disintegrated and is completely engulfed in anarchy and bloodshed. Both writings use violence as a motif in their apocalyptic universes, with The Hunger Games using the 'Games' to communicate a violent concept, and The Road using the shattered and extremely unforgiving ruins of a civilization to do so.
