They flew so low that they woke him with the noise of their engines, and sometimes, looking out and up fearfully from the hiding places, he could almost see the faces of the searchers.” They use these planes to find the people who have escaped from the community and is probably released, due to the fact that they broke one of the rules.

They are restricted from leaving the community and going to elsewhere, and if they do they would send planes and jets to search for the person or people, like they did when Jonas and Gabriel left for their trip to elsewhere on page 168, “He knew they were search planes. These restrictions allow the people of the community to be safe and for the community to operate properly. In The Giver, the community functions with the citizens’ dependence on the Chief Elders, which the Chief Elders reinforce with rules and restrictions. Lois Lowry in The Giver does a better job capturing how the citizens and Jonas is restricted to the community and has a fear of the places beyond the boundaries of the community, where as Lois Lowry in Gathering Blue, Kira and the people are not restricted, but fear the places outside of the boundaries. In many ways there are the same like how the citizens have a fear of the outside world or how there is a group of people that are worshipped throughout the community. In Gathering Blue, the female protagonist Kira, is assigned the weaver of the future, and in the community people are independent and some are even left for dead, they do follow the rules even during desperate times because if not they would be sent to the field to be taken away from the beasts. In The Giver, the male protagonist Jonas, is selected for a job where he has the power to relive the past and in the community, everybody is taught to follow the rules and isn’t allow to brag, complain, or violate the rules or else they will be released or killed. A dystopian community, is a community where a perfect society is built through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control.

In both dystopian stories, Gathering Blue and The Giver, Lois Lowry clearly captures how the citizens of the community has a fear for the outside world, but in The Giver the way they control the community is more efficient and organized, while in Gathering Blue they are more messy and heartless.

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