The GIver Compared And Contrast
Victoria Hernandez
Curtis Fukuchi
ENGL 1301
The Giver I have recently read the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, and watched the movie Pleasantville. These works focus on making perfect societies. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community with many rules. He is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory and goes through great amounts of pain and happiness during his training. Pleasantville is about David and his sister Jennifer who goes into their TV to a show called Pleasantville. This town is supposedly peaceful and pleasant. Although The Giver and Pleasantville are both about perfect societies, their characters, setting and the symbolism establishing their greater involvement.
The Characters in The Giver and Pleasantville are both alike for many reasons. One example that they are alike is the main focus; they both are about their own version of perfect worlds. In The Giver, the society has no pain or fear everything in the society is controlled and planned out. “How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” In Pleasantville the town has no emotion other than happy and perfect. In gym class all the boys make perfect shots in the basketball hoop, nothing is out of place or goes wrong in this world. Another example, in the beginning of both The Giver and Pleasantville their worlds are black and white. As Jonas, and the citizens in Pleasantville start to discover new things about the “Real World” and individuality, both worlds slowly start turning to color. In The Giver they notice color in Gabriel’s eyes. “It was the first thing Jonas noticed as he looked at the new child peering up curiously from the basket. The pale eyes.” In Pleasantville the first sign of color was the
Curtis Fukuchi
ENGL 1301
The Giver I have recently read the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, and watched the movie Pleasantville. These works focus on making perfect societies. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community with many rules. He is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory and goes through great amounts of pain and happiness during his training. Pleasantville is about David and his sister Jennifer who goes into their TV to a show called Pleasantville. This town is supposedly peaceful and pleasant. Although The Giver and Pleasantville are both about perfect societies, their characters, setting and the symbolism establishing their greater involvement.
The Characters in The Giver and Pleasantville are both alike for many reasons. One example that they are alike is the main focus; they both are about their own version of perfect worlds. In The Giver, the society has no pain or fear everything in the society is controlled and planned out. “How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” In Pleasantville the town has no emotion other than happy and perfect. In gym class all the boys make perfect shots in the basketball hoop, nothing is out of place or goes wrong in this world. Another example, in the beginning of both The Giver and Pleasantville their worlds are black and white. As Jonas, and the citizens in Pleasantville start to discover new things about the “Real World” and individuality, both worlds slowly start turning to color. In The Giver they notice color in Gabriel’s eyes. “It was the first thing Jonas noticed as he looked at the new child peering up curiously from the basket. The pale eyes.” In Pleasantville the first sign of color was the