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Emily St. John Mandel’s book, “Station Eleven” and “The Giver” is a dystopian novel. These two books are widely creative and fictional. “Station Eleven” shows of how an epidemic can change society and “The Giver” shows the controlling and the government of how it can affect society. In the beginning of, “Station Eleven,” there is a leading actor, Arthur Leander, who is dying from a heart attack. This is just beginning of the epidemic, known as the Georgian Flu. It wipes out the whole civilization. The book then skips forward to the present to a woman, Kirsten, who was eight when she was on stage with Arthur Leander and is now trying to make her way in a world that 's been dealt with the epidemic. Kirsten doesn’t remember much of from this …show more content…

The author Lois Lowry gets rids of anxiety, agony, disabilities, conflict, and hatred; the things our society would want to get rid of in our own. "How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made." ( Lowry 48) The people in the community has to be in order to maintain the peace and order of their society, in “The Giver” the community members have to submit to strict rules governing their behavior, relationships, and language. Freedoms and strong emotions add chaos to society. In “The Giver”, "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." (Lois 82) “The Giver” has the memory of freedom, and also the pain and conflicts that the human 's choice and emotion often have caused. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others." (Lois 95) The Community members, though they are happy, they don’t know the basic freedoms that our own society values. In Lois’s novels, societies that might seem to be flawless because all the citizens are healthy or clearly happy are revealed to be flawed because they limit the freedoms of the person. Lois Lowry book warn the reader, Don’t let this happen to your society. The lesson of “The Giver” is more optimistic than “Station Eleven.” Yet, there is fear in both novels. Both books, they give a message to the readers and leave the readers

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