The Giver And The Pedestrian Comparison

In the novels, ‘The Giver’ and ‘The Pedestrian’, Lois Lowry and Ray Bradbury, both illustrate a future utopic world, we could come across, if we don’t embrace our individual characteristics and the ability to think for ourselves. In this worrying future, the Government, has full control of the citizens, in order to make a better world. The authors confront us with the theme of a Government, that implies strict rules and makes decisions for their citizens without them realizing, so that they all have the same ‘perfect’ lives. The other theme they confront us with is the idea of a sterile world that discourages individuality, and free-thinking, pushing their citizens to follow every rule and command, making their lives and personalities all the same, with no imperfections.

Both Lowry and Bradbury confront us with a worrying potential future, if the Government takes too much control and makes all of our choices for us. The Government doesn’t let the community choose what they want to do, they imply strict rules and regulations that the citizens have to follow or else they get chastised or humiliated. This is evident in ‘The Giver’, through Jonas’s humiliated tone when he remembers the time he got called out by the speaker, and had to apologise, for disrespecting the rules, “Everyone had known, he
Their communities follow every rule and command, making their lives and personalities identical, blindly leading themselves into the oblivion of Sameness. Without to know, the citizens are forced to follow strict rules and regulations, making them all to have the same lives, with no free choice and human feelings; characteristics which make us human. The result is a sterile world, without pain, feelings, desires, and free-will, which are suppressed by the