Examples Of Sameness In Fahrenheit 451

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The theme within the novel The Giver chose “sameness” over the freedom of individual expression and not once questioned it “...the feeling that you describe as the wanted? It was your first Stirrings” (Lowry 47) The citizens take a pill every morning of their life to get rid of feelings such as love and sadness so it leaves the people of the community in similar mental states. Although Montag and his peers weren’t required to take a pill they were still brainwashed like the people in The Giver. “It’s what he was told to do, and he knows nothing else.” (Lowry 191) A ceremony takes place when all the juveniles turn 12 and the entire group is then given a job to symbolize them growing into adulthood. As for Fahrenheit 451 the people had the freedom to pick what job they wanted but in both dystopian books the citizens were manipulated to believe to never become curious or question the government. In The Giver the people or the community don’t have any knowlege of history or memories, that is what makes it diverse. “But he knew he couldn’t go back to a world of no feelings that he had lived in so long ago” (Lowry 164) The only person who could recieve memories and feet true feelings was The Giver. Once Jonas, the new up and coming giver, got a taste of what the world was like before and he had new knowledge, he thought that there was no way he had to go back to the world he lived in, where people were oblivious to the truth. Montag began to feel the same way Jonas felt but with books, Montag and his fellow citizens didn’t fully understand understand why they were feeling the way they did “...our community …show more content…
The flesh around them was darkened into shadowed circle.” (Lowry 95) Lowry and Bradbury’s writing both contains straightforward details and imagery. Both books also contain a wide veriedy of descriptive words to help the readers envision with the authors are writing
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