What Is The Difference Between The Giver And Harrison Bergeron

Have you ever read The Giver and Harrison Bergeron? They are both great stories. Two popular stories are “The giver and “Harrison Bergeron.” Altough’The giver” and “Harrison Bergeron” has obvious similarities and differences in order to gain a deeper understanding of each story, we will explore the potential similarities and differences.

First, we have a similarity and also a difference. In both stories they wanted everyone to be the same. The idea of equality is important to both. But, each story has its own way of making everyone equal. In the story “The Giver.”.Lois Lowry, “The giver shrugged” “The Giver shrugged. ‘Our people made the choice, the choice to go to Sameness.”(pg.120). This story focuses on the idea of sameness is, “The giver shocks his head. “No, the flesh isn’t red. But it has tonessi in it. There was a time, actually— you’ll see these memories later—when flesh was many different colors. That was before we went to the sameness.”(Pg.119). This is how the story . “The giver.” creates equality.

According to the text, “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”(Harrison Bergeon)This shows that they were able to achieve equality. The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever borne heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind but to give him whanging headaches besides.``(Harrison Bergeron) .This is how equality is achieved in both