Let's start from the beginning. Yes, they're both stories of dystopian societies. Yes, the main character is a female and she falls in love with a small love triangle. Yes, the main characters have to fight for their rights as citizens and blah blah blah. But really, that's only the basic stuff. The story lines are completely different. In The Hunger Games, the government is trying to punish society for rebelling. In Divergent, the government thinks they're doing the right thing and actually creating a better society by having the factions and separating people. The citizens of this society think that they have a nearly perfect society. The citizens of Panem, with the exception of the capital, know that where they're living isn't safe and their government is corrupt. And this is only the start of all the differences in the two books.
Tris, the main character of Divergent, is trying to figure out who she is and how she fits into her society throughout the book. Katniss is mainly trying to survive and figure out how to get people to like her. This is the main character difference between the two. Personally, I think that Tris is more relatable because most of us living here in Mason don't have to fight others for our lives, but some of us may be fighting ourselves to figure out who we are, like Tris.
Here is the trailer for the Divergent movie.
So you can compare the two without having read them (if you've been living under a rock), here is the trailer for The Hunger Games movie.
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