How would you feel if your community was controlled just for equality? Would it be torture for you, be enjoyable, or fascinating? As Barry Goldwater once said, “Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragic. Finally, in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism." His quote interacts with The Giver and Harrison Bergeron because of Equality. In both stories The Giver by Lois Lowry and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, they the meaning of equality, but all they see is a “perfect world” in their community. To Begin with, equality is not what you think; fairness, happiness, perfect. Everybody misunderstood it. This is why Barry Goldwater’s quote interacts with The Giver and “Harrison Bergeron”. When both communities brought in Equality into their “perfect world” it didn’t went well, it just ruins the community more than it already was. For example, In the text, it says “ “ And it came from the sky’. ‘That’s right’. The old man said.” Just the way it used to. Before Sameness. Before climate control. “ Jonas added. ( Lowry 85) Pdf”. This shows that the community used to be a better place since it wasn’t controlled for everything. Now, they have climate control, they are divided into groups by ages and restrict some words that seem to be “Terrible words” for them which is against the law . For instance, in the text, it