Many works can share conveyed messages and story elements that help build the plot. Two of these works are The Giver by Lois Lowry, a fictional book written about an ideal community; a utopia, and The Village, a movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan, in which presents the idea of having an ideal society kept away from what is known as the “modern world”. The blind following of traditions and the idea of difference or individuality in a character is common in both of these works.
In The Giver, the theme of individuality is portrayed in Jonas as a character. His community is made up of several rules and traditions to enforce the idea of sameness. Members of the community are not given the freedom to have difference within their own person. As …show more content…
Her disability allows for her to do and achieve things that only she can do and others can not. Her ability to bear through going into the forest despite feeling fear in which was built through lies while the other members of the village could not is also another distinction. This drove her to do something that many others would not dare to do. A love and passion for another human being had given her the motivation to be different; which, therefore, refers to her being the first one excluding the Elders to have navigated through the woods and to the “towns” for the mere purpose of finding …show more content…
Those who live in the village do not question the horrifying stories they are told of monsters that live within the woods that surround them. The Elders, who had ultimately thought of all of these stories to deceive the unknowing villagers, had used these warnings to keep the inhabitants within the boundaries of where they are coveted to stay. No one feels much apprehension and uncertainty when they are cautioned. They utilize the lies they are told and go with it, not being able to identify what is real and what is made up. The members live their lives by this myth, letting it affect nearly everything they do as they have known it their entire lives and know nothing of its illusive
In The Giver, the theme of individuality is portrayed in Jonas as a character. His community is made up of several rules and traditions to enforce the idea of sameness. Members of the community are not given the freedom to have difference within their own person. As …show more content…
Her disability allows for her to do and achieve things that only she can do and others can not. Her ability to bear through going into the forest despite feeling fear in which was built through lies while the other members of the village could not is also another distinction. This drove her to do something that many others would not dare to do. A love and passion for another human being had given her the motivation to be different; which, therefore, refers to her being the first one excluding the Elders to have navigated through the woods and to the “towns” for the mere purpose of finding …show more content…
Those who live in the village do not question the horrifying stories they are told of monsters that live within the woods that surround them. The Elders, who had ultimately thought of all of these stories to deceive the unknowing villagers, had used these warnings to keep the inhabitants within the boundaries of where they are coveted to stay. No one feels much apprehension and uncertainty when they are cautioned. They utilize the lies they are told and go with it, not being able to identify what is real and what is made up. The members live their lives by this myth, letting it affect nearly everything they do as they have known it their entire lives and know nothing of its illusive