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The Giver vs the village
The Giver vs. “The Village”
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The Giver and “The Village” are both utopian societies pecause the government makes everything perfect for tham to be controlled. . There are many differences and similarities between them that all range in the category of fear. The Giver and “The Village” both have an unknown fear that lurks on the outside of their communities. In both “the Village” and The Giver the people live in a very gloomy and sad environment, The Giver there is no color at they are all color blind except with people with green eyes, in “The Village” they have colors but no rainbow colors like pink, green, blue, orange excreta. In The Giver they have release whereas “The Village” they have that warthog creature thing that kills people. In The Giver, The Giver and Jonas, the main character wants to cross the border and go into the unknown. In “The Village” throughout the whole movie Lucius wants to cross the border out of Covington woods and get medicine for Noah a mentally sick person. When nosh stabs Lucius Ivy who lives him dearly is willing to go out of “The Village” to gets medicine for Lucius despite the fact Ivy is blind.in The Giver the group of elders make strict rules similar to the “The Village”. In The Giver the whole community ids color blind because the community controls the weather so the block natural sun so there’s no colors. In “The Village” they live in their own community kind of like hutterites: They have no electricity, No electronics, they grow their own food, fetch their own water, excreta, even when it is the late 1970s. In The Giver they give these pills to help them stop the feeling of love for each other, they assign you your mates and children but, in “The Village” you can have love and marry your love ad have your own children .
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I can relate this movie to myself because I live in a foster home. It’s like my village and I live with a lot of other villager’s and the

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