Argumentative Essay On The Giver

I think the giver by Lois Lowry is interesting story about a world without the right to choose your jobs. They live in a dystopia like world. The world they live in is almost isolated, they don’t know about colors, music, or even some animals. My final reason on why the giver is a dystopia is because they don’t have any feelings, and if they do they have to get them taken away, I couldn’t imagine a world without feelings.

Some examples why this society is not perfect are you can't touch people outside your dwelling and, you can't bring food outside your dwelling. You have to take a shot to have no feelings, and you can't be independent. Jonas did these things. And Jonas believed everyone should be independent. This made Jonas different, he knows that his society is wrong because he knows the real world is independent and it is better to be different then to be the same.

Emma Ashley Ms. Treacy English 8, Section 3 17 October 2023 The Hazards to Perfection Hannah Withall Smith once said, “There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.” This quote explains how one cannot be truly happy while living in a state of uniformity. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, portrays a novel that is seemingly a utopia, when in reality it is a corrupt dystopia. Throughout the book, civilians are forced to follow the strict and harsh rules in order to maintain an indistinguishable society.

In the book The Giver Jonas and the community have little choices they can make. In America we have lots of choices like how long your hair is, what you are going to wear to school and what color we want to wear. In Jonas’ community they cant even do that. Jonas left the community because he yearned for the freedom of choice. “If every things the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(PG97). Jonas wants to be able to pick his own tunic and job, but in the giver community he cant. He wants to pick his own spouse. Jonas is tired of sameness

‘We might make wrong choices’” (98). Jonas is starting to catch on to the fact that there was once a world where you could choose whatever you wanted and was possible, that makes him want to be able to choose but he cant and has to live with that. I would not want to live without choices, it would drive me

Have you ever imagined a community where there is no color, no emotions, no individuality, the government make decisions for you and everything is the same? That what it's in Jonas' community when they started sameness, there no color, everything was the same and citizens of the community had no rights, an exemplification of having rights in the community is , everyone in the community cannot choose their spouse. As a result, sameness, what Utopian society Jonas lives in is based on, has no real benefits to the community because there are no emotions, no individuality and no choices.

To most kids in our society, the changes in Jonas’s world would be difficult to accept because we in America value our freedom to choose and to voice our desires. Did the creator’s of Jonas’s community truly improve society as we know it today?

Many thanks to all those who have participated in today’s debate. It is a question worth asking. It is a question that deserves answers. Should the government be deciding our families? In effect, running our lives? We, the opposition team say, firmly, no. They should not. Even in the world of The Giver, in the supposed utopia of the Community, it is clear that families should not be decided and designed by the government.

The Giver is it a utopia or not? A community that has solved hunger, poverty, and weather , how could it not? The Giver by Lois Lowry makes you wonder this while reading it. The book is about a boy named Jonas who is chosen to become the new Receiver of memory.

In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, the community chooses to not have weapons and is safe. They protect many lives. Jonas starts talking about Caleb, a four who died by a river, and he says, “Loss of a child was very, very rare” (Lowry 44). By doing this, their community is being very safe and protective.

Wondrous poet Francesco Petrarch stated "Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety is the cure". Lois Lowry conveyed a more significant, powerful warning about the future in the film version of 'The Giver', due to its representation of knowledge of the past, significance of emotion and, deception of government confinement. A healthy vision of the future is not possible without any accurate knowledge of the past. In the film Jonas states "Without memories it's all meaningless."

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

In The Giver, Jonas lives in a community free from violence and poverty, but lacks freedom of human nature. Personally, I would not like to be part of Jonas’s community for several reasons. A reason why I wouldn’t want to live in Jonas’s community is due to the fact that I would not be able to think for myself and become completely independent. For example, I wasn’t able to use any kitchen appliances until I was nine years-old. I felt like my parents didn’t really trust me enough before just because I was young and they thought I might hurt myself on accident.

Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms and individualities—for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more obvious that the community is a horrible place in which to live. You as a reader can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes

This symbolises how Jonas is finally separating from the caged community and is branching out by wanting to be able to choose something for once. The community has always engrained the idea of needing