Similarities Between The Giver And The Truman Show

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Anelise Colenzo September 12, 2017
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Truman Show and The Giver Similarities

What if you lived in a world where there was no real emotions. Imagine figuring out that your whole life was a lie and your world was all controlled. “The Giver “by Lois Lowry and “Truman Show” have many similarities that you can notice throughout both of the stories. Trueman is the main character of “Truman Show” and Jonas in the main character in “The Giver”. In the beginning of both stories they both think their world is a normal world with nothing wrong or no bad things could happen because it was so controlled. They didn’t know that there was anything in the outside world. Where they lived was what they thought was

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