Similarities Between The Giver And The Truman Show

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There are many differences and similarities. The book The Giver and the movie The Truman Show are somewhat alike and somewhat different. Both characters have complicated, yet “perfect” lifestyles. To begin with, in The Truman Show, Truman wanted to go somewhere else. He wanted to go to Fiji. Truman kept on telling himself that he was going to go. He wanted to get out of his place and find somewhere new. Truman kept trying and trying to get a flight or take a bus but because his society was watching him they made sure that there was no way to leave. Than in The Giver, Jonas wanted to go elsewhere. He wanted to experience different things. Jonas wanted to see what else was in the world for him. He did not want to be cooped up in his utopian …show more content…

He then ran into a wall which he realized was fake and everything in his life was just people acting. He found the door and was told that it was a bad society, and the utopia that he lived in was everything that someone could ask for. Also in The Giver, Jonas wanted to leave. He wanted to go elsewhere. He did not like the utopia he lived in, to him it was not perfect. Jonas knew that he had to get out and leave his society. There were many complications to Jonas leaving. Jonas did not want to leave Gabe so he had to find a way to bring him with. Once Jonas was ready to go he got himself and gabe already to go. Then they were gone and they found elsewhere. Both Truman and Jonas wanted to leave. They both ended up leaving successfully. That is just another …show more content…

Both Truman in The Truman Show and Jonas in The Giver live in “perfect” societies, so called a utopia. They both wanted to leave and go somewhere else, but it was not as easy to just get up and leave. It took a lot of planning. They both got out of their society successfully, even though it took lots of planning for Jonas. But for Truman he just had to find the exit and he was gone. They also had differences between the two. Truman and the people were able to see color from the start. Everything in Truman’s world was not just one color. Although in Jonas’s world none of the people in his society were able to see color. Jonas was only able to see some colors when he got the memory for color from the giver.They both had decisions to make. Both Truman and Jonas knew that there was something else outside of their society and they found it. Just think if this did not happen to them would they be any

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