Compare And Contrast Anthem And The Giver

The Moments of Life

Have you ever watched a movie that you couldn’t stop watching or even read a book you would never fall asleep during? Modern day teens are connecting to both of these dystopian literature they are amazing for teens to connect to on a personal level. The Anthem and The Giver are the most connected to a lot of for several reasons. They give you a way to put yourself in their position, either in a book or a movie. The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce was a lot more up to date than Anthem. It shows all the cool inventions that were created. Their lives are a lot different than you would think. They are isolated and told what to do for the rest of their lives and never have a choice of what they want to do.The main characters

For example, young adults are being told how their lives are going to turn out. If they aren't smart enough, they won't be able to go to college, or since they are a troublemaker they aren’t going to go anywhere in life. In Anthem they are being told and it is predicted what they are going to do for the rest of their lives. Anthem is giving young adults a great objective to connect to because it shows how the people in the novel are being isolated from people all around them. A lot of teens feel like they are isolated from people in school because they fear either that they don't fit in or their classmates don't like them for some reason. They can use the book as something to help them get through things they are going through. Getting told how their lives are going to be planned out for them is a big struggle for some young adults Equality goes through the same thing. “We see that it has ever been thus and that is has brought us step by step to our last” (Rand 20). This quote is basically saying that their life completely planned for them. They had their life completely planned out for them, step-by-step, where they're going to live, where they're going to work, and who their friends will be. They had no choice in what their life was coming to. It is relating to modern-day teens because a lot of teens these days have life planned out step by step

The Giver is a wonderful film to see for young adults, but if you are a more of a book person Anthem hit home for modern teens. The Giver was the best way for teenagers see and imagine their lives, that's what really connected them to The Giver. The Giver is a great dystopian literature that really outlines the lives of normal people who had no emotion, who had no choice what their lives are going to be. Not being able to express the emotions that you feel to other people is the hardest thing you can probably ever do. Not feeling, emotion, any feeling at all,is a very terrible feeling it's really the only feeling you could feel. Jonas states his feelings about not telling feelings ,“Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often-there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.”(Noyce). The Giver Is most successful at showing emotion throughout the film. That is very important because it helps people connect with the film Anthem just doesn't do it. Although both of them show individualism and feelings and emotion Anthem just doesn't do it well enough to grab all your attention the way that everyone wants to be grabbed by the motion of the book, “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal.