Similarities Between Out Of The Dust And The Giver

I liked the movie, The Giver very much, I also enjoyed reading Uglies as well. There are many

Could you imagine your world in which everything was predetermined for you, and you didn’t have a choice? This is the reality in The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas faces these problems and many others as he completes his adventure. Although some may think this to be devastating, this is normal in his society. In the dystopian society conveyed in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there are many similarities and differences to our modern day societies.

The novels The Giver by Lois Lowry and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, both have similarities and differences when it comes to their plot and themes. It might seem that the fundamental idea of the novels are opposites, but the strategies by which each society is kept up are surprisingly comparative.

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

What is The Giver you may ask? The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. The Giver takes place in an advanced society which seems to be a utopian but ends up being a dystopian as the story ends. There's a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. Their communities eliminated pain and strife by converting everyone to become so called “equal", they also removed emotional feelings like love. Jonas is selected to become the Receiver of Memory which is the person who stores all the past memories of the time before everyone was equal. There may be times where one must receive the wisdom gained from history to help the community's decision making. Jonas has trouble with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him:

Have you ever seen it rain in one spot or have cameras everywhere in your home. Well that is what happens in The Truman show and The Giver. It just seems weird having people look at you all the time and watch your every move. Or people watching you at every second of the day about your daily life. The Giver and the Truman show are very similar and different because of Biblical allusions,setting and smartness.

Individuality is one of the key components of reaching the utopian standard. However, in The Giver, the community rejects the idea of individuality and instead focuses on developing Sameness, therefore initiating a form of control by allowing them to not express their own personality to shine, and alternately forcing them to contort into these soft putty-shaped beings with zero individuality at all. Conversations between Jonas and The Giver that occur throughout the novel informs the audience that the community lacks a sense of uniqueness and results in an absence of options to choose from.

A World Filled With Dust The Dust Bowl was one of the worst environmental disasters of the twentieth century anywhere in the world. The Great Plains area was largely affected and forced most to migrate West. The novel Out of the Dust takes place in a city called Joyce City, which is located in the panhandle of Oklahoma.

Lois Lowry wrote a science fiction novel called The Giver which was turned into a movie directed by Phillip Noyce. The novel The Giver is about A twelve year old boy named Jonas who lives in a world that is utopia (everything is the same). Until Jonas is selected to be the new receiver of memory and gets memories like color,love,and pain that know one else can see or feel. Until one day when he wants to bring change to his utopian world. In the novel/movie The Giver by Lois Lowry takes away memories and things in characters like Jonas that make us human which in the way the movie portrays it is more remarkable in similar and different ways between movie/book.

Albert Einstein once said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” What he is trying to point out to everyone is that if someone is really good at math, it doesn’t mean that he/she has a good mindset, thinking wise. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Giver by Lois Lowry are both books that have a similar idea of how a society is supposed to be run, but with different plots. In both books, the government took away the citizen’s power to think for themselves. Similarly, they both have main characters that release later on how messed up and nonperfect their community is.

The Giver, a book by Lois Lowry, and The Giver, the movie version, have more differences than similarities. The movie changes some details to fit into the new themes and expectations of the film. There are some similarities between the two, such as the general idea of a community based off of Sameness and order. However, there are many differences in things like the themes, the plot, the symbols, and the characters that just cannot be neglected. The movie is more different to the book than similar because it removes important details, such as Jonas’ pale eyes, limiting exposure to themes like government surveillance, and changing the ending of the movie to being more literal.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

Now let’s talk about how the the Truman show and the the giver are similar. The first similarities and what I think is the most obvious both Truman and Jones live in a dystopian cities. The city in the giver is where Jones lives in this city he does the same thing everyday the same goes for Truman in his city he does what he is supposed to do every day. Which happens to be same thing almost every day but there things that happen that don't usually happen. They both are being watched 24/7 by cameras or by other people in secret. We can tell this is happening because we can see the cameras in Jones’s town in the and Jones does say he can see people watching him during the day. Same goes for Truman since his entire life is a 24 hour TV show.

By focusing on comparing two gothic horrors “The Mist” by Stephen King and “Get Out “ by Jordan Peele we can explore how the gothic horror genre works. Between the film Get Out and the novel The Mist from Edmond Burke’s notion of the obscure and Sears gothic machinery we see how both authors create terror through these structures. Edmond Burke states, “To make anything very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.”(Edmond Burke) Through the obscurity Burke describes we can see how it paints a terrifying image of mist as Billy describes it as his first glimpse and how it carries throughout the novel. But in

Is ignorance truly bliss? Is sacrificing some things—individuality, choice, even pain—worth achieving others, such as peace or control? In the literary world of The Giver, and likewise in The Matrix, citizens were blind to the reality—the reality that they were not living their own lives, but rather, lives that were predetermined by the powers that be, and as a result, they lacked the taste of true freedom. In each case, what was gained, whether it be order or power, in no way compensated for what was deprived of the oblivious slaves: true, authentic life.