The story of Fahrenheit 451 is based on a society controlled by a government who believes that they must burn books in order to obtain power. The main character, Guy Montag, meets a girl named Clarisse who urges him to open up to the idea that books are not harmful and that you can learn from them. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a government controlled society where some aspects of life are taken away so that the people in the society obey the government. Both the novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, and the The Giver, by Lois Lowry, share points of comparison like equality, emotional connections, and trusted allies.
Both Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver, contain the point of comparison, equality. Similarly, both stories are based upon a utopian society where they are controlled by the government. The government controls the people in these societies by forcing equality. Beatty illuminates, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, like the Constitution says, but made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy…”(Bradbury 58). In comparison, equality in Fahrenheit 451 leads to the burning of the books. Society has tried to make everyone the same by trying to take the difference away. The difference is in the books. However, in The Giver, people are physically made equal by a medication
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Additionally, Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver, are both societies where some friendships and all marriages are based upon compatibility. Guy Montag illustrates, “And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he wouldn’t cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown…”(Bradbury, 74). Montag proves just how emotionally numb people are in their society; someone dies and no one cares. Unlike the people of Fahrenheit 451, marriages in The Giver are almost like a job where the government observes and