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Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And The Giver

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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. To begin with, a government where people are being controlled by doing the same things every day and not breaking from it can cause lots of problems for people who go rogue. In the novel, leaders who make them not feel emotion, pain, or other emotions and control The Giver don’t have memories of the outside world. “If everything's the same, then there aren’t any choices!”. If a society can’t feel normal emotions like happiness, fear, anger, or sadness, then it would be boring and especially when you're repeating tasks every single day. …show more content…

In Fahrenheit 451, everyone acts as if they already know what to say in every conversation or just act robotic all the time. “He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face.” It would probably horrify knowing that everyone seems to act like robots under the flesh of their skin and how they also act like robots with predetermined

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