The Giver Vs Anthem Essay

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Anthem or The Giver
Anthem and The Giver have dystopian themes. In both there's one person who breaks the laws. I think that, that attracts the people who watch or read the book or movie. The Giver is about a boy who receives memories that later end up helping him. Anthem is about a man who finds his own place and he ends up falling for a girl and learns freedom for the first time to be actually free. In these two stories Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lois Lowry have the same theme in the two stories.
Anthem by Ayn Rand is a book about a perfect society. Then Equality breaks the rules and he doesn't tell noone when he came back late. So he got sent to prison for not telling where he was. He broke out of prison and wanted to show the World Council of Scholars his invention. He has worked on something in his
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They are different by how Anthem lives in a more strict environment then The Giver. The Giver has more leeway than Anthem they have more things to do. Anthem does not have families they have individual people, but The Giver has families. And also The Giver has precision of language when they say something they're not supposed to and in Anthem they have unspeakable words as in my, me or I. Also The Giver has a Receiver of Memory so they can know about the past and what to do if problems come up. In Anthem they live how they're suppose to with their brothers in their job housing units.
In these two stories both Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lowis Lowry they have dystopian theme. In conclusion they have a similarities and differences. In ways they're different with the society and people, Anthem is strict and The Giver’s strict and has some bendable rules that almost everyone in that community had once before. They’re the same with the concept of the city in both stories. Anthem and The Giver have the same dystopian theme and they could attract readers because of all the action and the rule breaking involved in the

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