Although The Giver's community and The Village's communities are both Utopias, there are many differences and similarities between them in the category of fear. First I will give a difference between them, in The Giver only one person truly knew all about the unknown that everyone fears, and that person is the Giver himself, while in The Village all of the elderly citizens in the community know about the unknown. Another divergence is in the Giver only one person was strong enough to go into the unknown witch everyone qualms, witch is Jonas, while in the village there are two people, Ivy and Lucius, which desire to face their fears and enter the unknown. A similarity between these two utopian societies is that in both The Village and The Giver the citizens are controlled by fear, and what they do not know. “This color attracts those we do not speak of. You must bury it. You ought not to pick that color berry anymore.”
First I will talk about the difference that I spoke of earlier between The Giver and The Village, and that was in The Giver the only person that truly knows about the unknown witch everyone fears is the Giver himself, while in The Village all of the elderly citizens know exactly what the unknown is. In The Giver the unknown is all of the memories witch no one else knows about, which have been lost in time. While in The Village the unknown that everyone fears is what truly lies in Covington Woods, beyond the borders of the community. “We have always had a gentle understanding with the creatures that live in the woods.”
The next difference that I will talk about is in The Giver only one person, Jonas, wants to look fear into the eyes and cross the border of his community into elsewhere, while in The Village two people, Ivy and Lucius, want to cross the borders that they know into Covington Woods. Throughout the whole movie, Lucius wanted to cross Covington Woods and face his fear of the unknown, to retrieve medicine for Noah, and later on in the movie Ivy wanted to cross as well to retrieve medicine to stop the rapidly growing infection inside of the one she loved, Lucius. While in The Giver, Jonas was the only strong person that wanted to cross the borders of his society into elsewhere. "He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace."
I will end with a similarity between The Giver and The Village. The similarity is that in the both The Giver and The Village the communities are controlled by fear. In The Village the way that the citizens of the utopia are controlled by being taught that monsters live within Covington Woods (the woods that surround their community), that way no one will ever try to escape. Meanwhile, in The Giver the village's citizens are controlled by what they do not know. "Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something-he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there."
Although both the communities seem very similar, and they are both Utopias, there are many similarities and differences between them. First, in The Giver the only person that truly knew about the unknown was the Giver himself, while in The Village all
of the elderly people in the community know about the unknown. Second, in The Giver, Jonas is the only character that truly wants to cross his community's borders while in The Village, two people want to cross their borders to see what is beyond what they know. Last, a similarity is that in both The Giver and The Village everyone is controlled by fear.
"He wondered what lay in the far distance where he had never gone. The land didn't end beyond those nearby community. Were there hills elsewhere? Were there vast wind-torn areas like the place he had seen in memory, the place where the elephants died?"
