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Comparing Fahrenheit 451 Or The Giver By Ray Bradbury

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Michael Coelho Mrs. Segars Honors English January 2023 Utopia vs Dystopia “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes,” Mahatma Gandhi. In life, different societies fit different people. One’s utopia could be another’s dystopia. Modern-day societies can be free, while dystopian governments have complete control over their society. Both modern and dystopian societies have things in common such as how everybody has rules to follow. If we examine the protagonists in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 or The Giver by Lois Lowry, we realize dystopian societies are very harsh and the people have no control over their decisions, whereas in modern societies the people are free and happy. Unlike dystopian societies, modern-day societies have more freedom to make decisions on their own. Lois Lowry’s, The Giver, manifests how their society doesn’t have the freedom to make decisions. The protagonist Jonas is named Receiver of the community, even though it wasn’t his choice, but the choice of the elders. “You will be trained to be our next Receiver of Memory. We thank you for your childhood.” (Lowry 64) Living in this type of society would be unbearable, as people are being forced into positions that are not ideal for them. Additionally, in today’s …show more content…

In Fahrenheit 451 and modern-day societies, books are being banned. But, only some books are banned in modern societies while all books are banned in the dystopian society in Fahrenheit 451. According to CBS News, “The 50 Most Banned Books in America”, books are being banned that relate to topics including racism, gender, and violence. Even though some books are more mature than others, they shouldn’t be getting banned since all books help people gain knowledge. All in all, both societies have rules that need to be followed, or else problems will

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The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in the future where everyone is brainwashed by technology thanks to the government and where books are illegal and whoever is found with books will get their house burned down with the books in them by the firemen who now are in charge of starting fires not putting them out, and the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place sometime during the great depression, narrated by scout the daughter of atticus. In fahrenheit 451 and to kill a mockingbird being an upstander means defying what society thinks is acceptable, However In Fahrenheit 451 the upstanders take a more violent approach to the problem and in To Kill a Mockingbird they try to solve things civilly. In both novels

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The griot is a person from traditional african society that tells stories of the past from their ancestors through music. So how does he relate to dystopian characters? An old man called the Giver from Lois Lowry's The Giver is like the griots because he transfers memories to the main character Jonas showing him the past and its history. The characters shown in the last chapters of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury are reminiscent of the griots due to their knowledge of the past led by their knowledge of books. Both of those stories show a character that tells the tale of the past through some part of history.

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Fahrenheit 451 has an astonishingly accurate future depiction of a society in which everyone is too distracted by technology, so they ignore most of the world around them. The community members are not aware of nature or other human beings, and they never take time to actually think deeply about life and ideas in general. Many high school and middle school teach this book in curriculums nationwide, because the addiction to technology and hatred of books portrayed in the book is beginning to be prevalent in our society. This book also glorifies individuality by admiring a girl who is different from everyone else. In the past, many parents have decided to challenge this book due to the violence, the religious discrimination, the foul language, and the references to drinking and smoking.

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All books have a story, but only a select few endure the story on itself. The novel, Fahrenheit 451 is about firemen burning books with material the government does not want the public to see. This book seems to suffer from itself, as democrats in government are attempting to remove free speech and schools are requiring parent notes because of controversial ideas. However, admittedly there is some sections where language is present where it should not be for the younger audience. The novel Fahrenheit 451 is not merit of being banned, due to the necessity of youth to be exposed to other alternative opinions, even if such are radical, in order defend their beliefs.

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Do we live in a society that is slowly devolving into a dystopian nightmare, or is this the result of science fiction writers' hyperactive imaginations? Many people have noted that the themes found in works like Lois Lowry's The Giver and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 are eerily similar to the world we currently live in. The concept of information restriction is one of the key themes in both of these books. In Fahrenheit 451, the government restricts literature and information to enforce population control.

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Everyone has their perfect or utopian world, but once you put that world into everyone’s perspective, it looks darker. A government that creates an emotionless world can cause problems with sympathy towards others or fear keeping us away from danger. Governments that also control their people through common appliances can put everyone into some sort of trance. Our government is like those in dystopian-style books in that our government censors certain information they don’t want us to know. Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver are good examples of governments that prefer control over conformity.

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Ironically, Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most banned books in American schools. The book was seen as evil for ideas like opposing the suppression of freedom by parties that presumed they had all the answers. Books such as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave New World, The Giver, and The Hunger Games have been banned in schools, and they all explore the themes of suppressing freedom, information, and intellectual thinking. Prohibiting these books will only lead less thought; it will lead to the ultimate demise of society. If we do not learn from them, we will become them.

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So eventually nobody used books, and they started to burn them, because they made people unhappy. Minorities were also offended by the books, so they were eventually burned. The dangerous part of a book comes from the ideas that they hold. Outside of “Fahrenheit 451” there are books being banned all of the time. From books about Nazi Germany, all the way to books that are meant for Jr. Highers are banned for many different reasons, but the reasons all lead back to one thing.

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In Fahrenheit 451, society has outlawed books. Nobody reads. In schools, children only read facts about history, science, and other subjects. Books are burned along with the houses they reside in.

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In the Novel Fahrenheit 451, one way that the government controls their society is by outlawing owning and reading any type of literature. There are a couple reasons why the government does this. One reason they ban books is because they want everyone to be equal, so everyone is more comfortable with the way they are. There are no more labels, such as “Genius” or “Stupid” or “better”. As Beatty states in the book “We must all be alike.

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