What Are The Similarities Between Anthem And The Giver

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The Strange appeal in literature for today's teens The world is in a spell of false security and your the only one that can see through it, you’re in a dystopian culture and you don't know how to get out. The dystopian genre is taking off in the teen community. The novel Anthem and the movie The Giver are greatly similar. Both storylines are about two men with a vision of the future that they share with no one else. For some strange reason young adults around the world seem to be connecting to these stories. Whether it's the pressure that both main character and real world teens share or the need to be different it is quite obvious they are in love. This love can be traced back to ,as appears in the The Giver, being able to connect with the main character, Jonas, as he learns about new feelings and sensations he never knew about and in Anthem when they understand the pressures that Equality feels from society. It can also be said that both Anthem and The Giver reach deep into a teens mind and bring forth the idea of society refusing to listen to ideas involving anything uncertain or different from belief of the time. …show more content…

Teens are offered multiple illegal substances, they must decide between sports or a job, and they must get homework done. These are just the beginning, as said by Equality in the book Anthem,“The learning was to easy for us....this was a sin… It is not good to be different from our brothers”(Rand 22-23). Teachers are telling him it's bad to be unique wich pressures him to try and change. Teens and children are commonly bullied or laughed at which causes them to try and change who they are. They are pressured to be like everyone else. Anthem is a playground of emotions and so are teens. It’s no wonder why they connect so

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