Science Fiction is a genre that uses things from right now and alters it to make it futuristic. It creates things that are not realistic to this world right now. The Giver by Lois Lowry talks about Jonas being the Receiver as his job, and him getting to know the world generations before him. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. talks about how the people handicapped are mentally disabled and Harrison tries to solve that problem in front of an audience. The theme of the Giver and Harrison Bergeron both show how it is better to be aware than to be ignorant of your surroundings. Our world needs to know what's going on outside the screens.

The theme of the Giver is to be aware of the world around you. On page 97 it says, "'But I want them!'Jonas said angrily. 'It isn't fair that nothing has color'"(Lowry 97). As he does his job as the Receiver, he gets to know how the world actually worked before sameness happened. That is when he realized that the world right now, around him is all the same. There is no bright lively colors. As the other people don't care about whether the world is colorful, Jonas is aware about how different and boring his world is right now. On page 159-160 it says, "And anyway, everyone is so involved in the Ceremony that they probably won't notice that I'm not there"(Lowry 159). The people follow the same routine and gather at same places for ceremonies. They only pay attention to what's …show more content…
In the Giver, Jonas becomes aware of his society as being different from other societies. In Harrison Bergeron, the handicapped people was kept from being intelligent as they were, and Harrison was aware of how it was unfair for them. All in all, people should be aware of what's going on in the outside world, than just sitting inside their house, looking at screens and not knowing what is happening to the world around