Comparing The Giver And The Last Dog

Would your actions be changed based on the community you live in? The Giver by Lois Lowery, The Last Dog by Katherine Paterson, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and The Monsters are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling, all shows characters in hard situations being affected by their community. There is no rule book for running a community, so when making decisions, it is hard to keep everyone happy. Restrictions, rules and suggestions of others may lead someone to react in a certain way when in a difficult state. With strict rules to follow in many of these stories, characters rebel, revolt, or attempt to leave, after having enough of the community around them. The Giver and The Last Dog equally compare in characters responses to the rules or decisions of others. Both main
Jonas, with help from the Giver, decides to make a plan to bring memories back into the community. Jonas breaks the rules, and leaves for elsewhere after having enough of the way it is. In the novel, it says “the community has depended… on a resident receiver to hold their memories for them (Lowry 155).” Jonas is tired of the giver and himself having to hold the memories of everyone in the community. Jonas wants others to feel, see, and hear what he does. So, he decides to leave for the good of the people. Similarly, in The Last Dog, Brock has found the only known dog in decades. The scientists from the Dome have decided to do research and cloning on him to produce more dogs. Brock reacts negatively and decides to hatch a plan. As shown in the text where it says ‘It