Similarities Between The Giver And Fahrenheit 451

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Thomas Jefferson once said. Jefferson believed that from the moment anyone was born, they were granted certain undeniable rights as a human being, including the right of freedom. In America, people are lucky to be free to express themselves and choose their own paths in life, but what if all of their rights were suddenly taken away? Try to imagine living in a world where people were no longer free to think for themselves. Imagine a world where being an individual was against the law. In The Giver by Lois Lowry and Fahrenheit 451 by

Release was a method in The Giver through which the community tried to cleansed itself of impurities by killing off the undesirables with a lethal injection. Because of the government's obsession with creating a flawless world, they raised the children from the moment they were born to hold the greater good of society above all else including life. Therefore, the people did not question the idea of killing infants because the child did not meet the standards or disposing of the elderly once they were no longer of use to the

In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Mildred unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide because of the vacancy growing inside of her from the lack of meaning and purpose in her life. What she didn’t understand was that the emotion and family that she lacked was not only absent in her but also in her society as a whole. Through this, Bradbury showed that emotions and relationships between people were natural human tendencies that all people needed. The government may have believed that they were creating a perfect world, but without memories, feelings, or freedom to choose, life was not