Dickie Character Analysis

In Dystopian Literature, characters tend to get curious a numerous amount of times for many reasons. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas, who is 12-year-old who is supposed to get a job assigned. Instead, he is selected for the job of the receiver, who maintains all the memories. Throughout the story, he discerns that these memories should be given to everyone and not locked away, since there are many secrets and wants to know all. Dickie, from Examination Day by Henry Slesar, is 12 and has to take an exam so the government can see how smart he is, but his IQ is too high because of his curiosity of asking a vast amount of questions, as a result of curiosity he was killed by the government. Both characters have a lot of curiosity which is caused because of limited knowledge, being different and separate from others, and also because of how their world around them is
In Examination Day Henry Slesar wrote “...What makes it green, though? The grass?” “ ‘...Dad, he said, how far away is the sun?’ ” (Slesar 1)When the dad answered back, he lied to Dickie, because he was afraid that Dickie would have too much knowledge and become too smart, as a result the government would kill him. As well as the world around Dickie was shaped that way that if a person became too smart they would be killed. This is related to The Giver because Lois Lowry has written: “...precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered” (Lowry 71). When the author wrote this, she sent a message that trying to tell us that the world is shaped in a way with a multiple amount of rules and they have to follow them. Consequently, the reason for both character's curiosity is secrets and rules that are in the power of the world around them or the