Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And The Giver

Have you ever given up because something took an effort to change or fix? A characteristic of a dystopian society is the people's inaction when something perceived as negative in society occurs. People in dystopian societies tend not to do anything to make their lives better out of fear of the government. In fact, the societal tendency is to do the opposite and support the government. Unfortunately, we too have restrictions, but fortunately, in our society, people are not ignorant, and the society tries its best to change for the common good. The protagonists in Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver show us the ignorance of the people in their dystopian societies, whereas, in our modern-day society, people have the ability to speak up and take action.

For example, in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Faber explains to Montag how he could have spoken up for the people who were "guilty" and possibly changed things, but he acted cowardly and did not speak. "‘Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself’" (Bradbury 78). As this quote shows, in this dystopian society, the real problem is that people break the law instead of trying to change it. In our modern-day society, people try to change the law so that they will not have to break

For instance, in the U.S., there are more than 30,000 statutes of law, and in the State of California, there are 395,608 regulations, yet we still have freedom. Luckily, while our country was still forming, people decided to create a democracy so that everybody would get a say. "The authority of the state comes from below, not from above." In other words, we created some of these laws for the greater good, and we were able to do this since we spoke up. And even now we still have problems, but if there is something that many people do not like, they get together and protest. If there is a problem that somebody doesn’t like in a certain environment, they report it. And the ability to take these actions is what people in dystopian societies