The Giver And Fahrenheit 451 Comparison

In life I have learned to love, appreciate one another, appreciate what is around me, and the knowledge and opportunities that are given to me. I have the freedom and ability to recognize what color is, and I have the ability to learn and be educated about our history, and how we came to be. I don’t have a government hiding what love is, and I have the choice to be or do anything I want to do without worrying about the risk or pain involved. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury and The Giver by Lois Lowry they don’t have opportunities to be different, and do things freely without breaking the rules, they just haven’t been exposed to that kind of environment. Each government in these novels has a specific idea or concept they are trying to bring out …show more content…
The government is controlling what goes in and out of the people’s brains, and how they react to certain situations. In The Giver the people of the community are never challenged with the feeling of love after they take the pill, and in Fahrenheit 451 they never think of life differently with books and intellectual knowledge. Their families are just people in their life, and the way they live everyday is the same routine over and over. A lot of the members of the communities don’t realize this, and think that all of this behavior is normal because that is what they are told to do. Doing what you are told is very normal, and it is our nature. Places are different because of customs, and what we are told to do on a daily basis. The people in these books don’t notice anything wrong with the way they live because they have never learned differently. Just like we have learned not to steal, or cheat. We don’t think stealing and cheating are goods things, but that is because of what was taught to us. We act on what we think is right, and they do the exact same thing in these two