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Similarities Between The Giver And The Truman Show

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Comparing and Contrasting The Giver and The Truman Show
The Giver and The Truman Show have many similarities and differences. They both have Climate Control and the main characters in The Giver, Jonas, and the main character in The Truman Show, Truman, is that they are both not biologically related to their parents in the book and movie. Even though there are many similarities and differences in The Giver and The Truman Show there are only two main similarities and only one major difference.
One similarity is that The Giver and The Truman Show both have Climate Control. In The Giver they have climate control because some weather is unsafe for the community to live in and the people in the community have agreed to remove it from the community. The community can also grow food all year long nd have the right land to grow food for the community. In The Truman Show there is Climate Control to make it seem like Truman’s world is real and to keep Truman in his world. There are fake storms and rain but it would never be real. Around Truman’s world there is a dome that is painted with clouds to look like a real sky. The sun rises …show more content…

On page 27 in The Giver, it is the job of the birth mothers to have the babies. Then, spouses would apply for a child and get assigned a child that would fit the future parents. (p.g 27) This helps with parents making the wrong choices and helping to solve the problems of abuse of children. Unlike The Giver, in The Truman Show when Truman was born he was put on a reality tv show that he didn’t know he was on and the other people in his community are actors acting as his parents and people he knows. He didn’t know that people were acting and when he starting catching onto them acting, the actors wouldn’t know what to say when he would do something different. So Truman would not be related to the actors acting as his

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