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The Giver Compare And Contrast Essay

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The Giver Compare and Contrast
By: Nick R

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.” (Lowe) This is true because no place is perfect and that is why The Giver is a dystopian novel and not like our world. Although The Giver our modern-day society are different, they have many similarities, such as Climate/Weather, Birthdays, jobs, and Families, color. The giver is similar but also different in many ways like the giver has laws and our society has laws they just have different laws like you can only have two children 1 boy and 1 girl. When our world you can have as many kids as you like. Or in the giver you don’t name your kids. In the giver the Name giver makes the names of the kids in the society. Also, in the giver there are no cars allowed. But in our world cars are allowed and we use them very often. …show more content…

But in the giver, their colors grey and black. But in the giver on the covers, you might see a red house or a red apple that is because Jonas the main character is chosen to be the receiver of memory and one of their memories Jonas saw color. So, in the end there was color in the giver, but they found a way to take the color out completely but now it’s grey and black.
The Giver and our world are very different but also alike. Societies like ours have climate and weather so does the Giver, but The Giver controls the climate, and our world has tried that but it is just not possible, yet. In the Giver they had snow and rain and other climates, but they eliminated that to try to make a perfect utopia, but this book is a dystopian novel.
The Giver is very different because of all the things I mentioned like climate, laws and color. Like how I said the giver is very similar but dislike because… this book is a dystopian novel and if I were to describe it I say dystopian novel so over all I think that this is a very good book and you should pick

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