A Black and White World

While reading Brave New World, the book called The Giver written by Lois Lowry continuously popped into my head. Both books are similar because they each have some sort of utopian society. Utopian is "characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection." Although the readers might not think it is a perfect society, the characters in the books think that it is. Figuratively speaking, these characters live in a black and white world; every day goes by like the one before, nothing is unexpected, and everything is planned. Their black and white world causes the characters to have a lack of freedom; they must do whatever they are assigned to do, or forced to do. In the end of chapter one, it is stated that the workers "decant [their] babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas and Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future World controllers," highlighting that no choices are made. Before the chapter ends, the Director tells his students that one of their goals is "making the people like their inescapable social destiny," again, emphasizing that everything is destined for them.