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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the film Pleasantville and the novel The Giver b y Lois Lowry. No additional sources cited.
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are stories that speak of rigid societies and the problems, as well as the benefits, of such societies. The following paper compares and contrasts the film and the novel.
Pleasantville and The Giver In Lowrys novel the author presents a point of view wherein life is very good, at least on the surface. Things in society are all
very well organized into various categories that keep the society in a stable, if incredibly shallow and boring, reality. There is no real pain or prejudice and this is essentially
because everyone looks almost the same and they have been raised in a society that expects a particular type of behavior. In Pleasantville, which is a television reality and
thus is clearly different for it is pretend and not real (until the main character finds himself living in that reality), the people are very simple and all seemingly happy
in their simple existence. They all have their particular jobs and roles and no one questions this reality. As such they are simple and happy and also shallow. Both
of the stories clearly present a society that is supposed to be perfect, a society that depicts no real struggles and no real pain. But, at the same time they
are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. As such these perfect societies cannot thrive or
continue forever. In this both the book and the film are clearly very similar for there will always be human beings who would fight against such a society, human beings
who wanted passion as well as pain. An interesting similarity in the two works, as it involves setting, is that which involves the fact that there is apparently no
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