The Giver Vs Truman Show Essay

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Imaging living your whole life having no freedom or choice. Imaging living your whole life being recorded. It doesn’t sound very pleasant, but that is the life that Truman from The Truman Show, and Jonas from The Giver had to live. In both of these stories, there are lives that are lived completely without choice or freedom. Everything is controlled and monitored. Both The Giver and The Truman Show are in controlled communities. Neither of these communities have freedom of choice at all. What they do is controlled, and how their lives are lived is controlled. For example, they choose jobs and careers for the citizens. Their choice of employment doesn’t exist. In The Truman Show, Truman doesn’t know that his world was created by television producers, or that he is being recorded at all times. In The Giver, Jonas, and everyone else in the community doesn’t know that they are being monitored either. In both of these stories, there are leaders that control the world and communities that these people live in. …show more content…

There isn’t any time that these people aren’t watched and filmed as memories or for television. The Truman Show Is a television show about Truman. That means that he is constantly being watched at recorded. In The Giver, every citizen in the entire community is watched at all times, and recorded for memories. The difference between the two is that in The Giver, there are places where the elders can’t see you. In The Truman show, cameras are following him so he is always being watched no matter what. In The Giver, everyone is watched and recorded, while in The Truman Show, only Truman is recorded. In The Giver, the elders are constantly watching and recording the citizens in the community. The Truman Show is completely based on Truman, so he is the only one being watched constantly. The big difference between the two is that Truman can’t hide from the cameras, but special people in the Community of The Giver

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