Emily St. John Mandel’s book Station Eleven and The Giver is a dystopian novel. These two books are widely creative and very fictional, Station Eleven shows of how a epidemic can change society and The Giver shows the controlling of the government of how it can effects society. In the beginning of the Station Eleven there is a leading actor, Arthur Leander, who is dying from a heart attack. This is just beginning of the epidemic, known as the Georgian Flu. It wipes out the whole civilization. The book then skips forward to a woman, Kirsten, who was just eight when she was on stage with Arthur Leander and is now trying to make her way in a world that's been dead with the epidemic. Kirsten doesn’t remember much from this time. She only remembers…show more content… A friend of Jeevan, who is a doctor calls him a warning from the ER about the Flu that is hitting everyone and anything. Jeevan loads up on the supplies he gets from the grocery store. Kirsten, is a member of the Symphony, a traveling group of actors and musicians. The Symphony stages Shakespeare to communities who appreciate the arts. The communities, two years ago has changed: a “prophet” has taken over. The community believers are terrified. The non-believers are driven out. The Prophet who controls everything and anything strikes fear throughout the community. My favorite quote from Station Eleven book would be, "No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, please, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone. No more avatars." (Mandel…show more content… The author Lois Lowry get rids of anxiety, agony, disabilities, conflict, and hatred; the things our society would want to get rid of in our own. "How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made." ( Lowry 48) The people in the community has to be in order to maintain the peace and order of their society, in The Giver the community members have to submit to strict rules governing their behavior, relationships, and language. Freedoms and strong emotions add chaos to society. In The Giver, "He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace." (Lois 82) The Giver has the memory of freedom, and also the pain and conflicts that the human's choice and emotion often have caused. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others." (Lois 95) The Community members, though they are happy, they don’t know the basic freedoms that our own society values. In Lois’s novels, societies that might seem to be flawless because all the citizens are healthy or clearly happy are revealed to be flawed because they limit the freedoms of the person. Lois Lowry book warn
