Pleasentville V.S Giver

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A Utopian world looks perfect on the outside, but on the inside, there are waiting flaws to be discovered. The flawless world can never last forever. It is often unrealistic to stay perfect. Changes happen eventually and people gradually learn new things from such changes. In the movie, Pleasantville and the novel, The Giver, sameness filled the communities mentioned in both sources. There are people who make changes to these communities. In The Giver, Jonas learned things from memories and decided to break the traditional rules of a giver. In Pleasantville, Bud and Mary-Jane brought new ideas to the town. In the story of The Giver, almost everyone was equal. They had equal opportunities at certain ages and always had a chance to be part of something. No one was ever left out. They follow the rules of the community and didn’t experience discrimination nor racism. They had no feelings and their life was controlled with no freedom. However, they were always protected by the community, everyone had their rights to ask for help when they needed it. That explains the reason why people never questioned life outside of the community. Everything they have wanted was available for them in the community. However in the movie Pleasantville citizens where able to think and feel for themselves, but were ignorant to certain facts about life. Such as sex, holding hands, and actually looking at the opposite sex nude. In both Pleasantville and The Giver citizens of the utopia of dystopias’ didn’t see color. But in Pleasantville people are able to recognize color even though they only know black and white. Once people gave into their personal desires and feelings, the consequence was they changed to color. In both sources the protagonist sees what sameness does and what it robs the citizens of normality. Jonas was fine with the way life was, never once did he question why the

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