Essay Comparing The Giver And The Prophet Of Yonwood

Comparing and Contrasting The Giver and The Prophet of Yonwood The definition of dystopia is "an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one." The definition of utopia is "an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect." Many dystopian communities are created while trying to make utopian ones. Both The Giver and The Prophet of Yonwood are both dystopian. Just because both of these books are dystopian, it does not mean they're similar, but also doesn’t mean they're completely different. One difference between The Giver and The Prophet of Yonwood is that The Giver is unrealistic and probably won't happen, while The Prophet of Yonwood is very realistic and could very possibly happen. The Giver is set where everything is the same, no one can see colors, there is no emotion, and everyone's life is decided for them. The Prophet of Yonwood is set in the near future where a terrorist group is fighting with the United States, there are terrorists on the mainland, and everyone is scared out of their mind. In Yonwood a woman named Althea Tower had a vision of war and now everyone thinks she is
In Yonwood there are some freedoms, but in Jonas' community there is no freedom and everything is chosen for you. In Yonwood people can go in and out of their houses freely, they can fall in love, decide their own jobs, and they are allowed to move to a different house. In Jonas' community everyone has a strict curfew that they have to abide with, there are no feelings, jobs are assigned, and you cannot move from one community to the next. Some argue that freedom is easier, while others argue that if everything is chosen for you the stress of making decisions is taken away which makes that life easier. I think that freedom should be given, but it does need to have a set of rules to keep the community in