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Becoming Utopic In The Giver

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“Jonas signed. This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules” (Lowry 9). The book The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a community where choices are not chosen by the people and everything is guided by rules and regulations. To make sure that everyone follows the rules The Committee of Elders spy on everyone. This book closely resembles what happens in the real world because it is a branching off of what might happen in the future. If society advances then we may become utopic. Becoming utopic is a astonishing accomplishment. But when we take away choice then things will be more dystopic than before.If society starts to control everything that people do than people will not have …show more content…

An example of having somebody’s job picked for them is when Jonas is sitting at the sharing of feelings. Jonas’ sister is telling him and his parents about her day while the Mom leans over and says “Maybe when you become a Twelve, they’ll give you the Assignment of Storyteller” (Lowry 137). When Jonas was at the ceremony of twelve he was panicking about not being chosen. In his panic, he was also about to say “ No, I don’t. I can’t ,’ and throw himself on their mercy, ask their forgiveness, to explain that he had been wrongly chosen, that he was not the right one at all”(Lowry 63). In our society, people have the right to choose our own jobs almost everyone knows that. However, most people are in a job that they do not like and they would do anything to quit but they can not because money or school keeps them there. Although people have the freedom to choose what job they want, most of us choose the something that doesn’t make us happy. Jonas’ community solves this problem by not giving them the right to choose but, they get a job that they are good at and what they …show more content…

Every new birthday in this community is just a new set of rules to abide by. Towards the beginning of the book the narrator was telling the reader about one of the rules that was almost always broken. That rule what about the riding bike rule and the narrator said “The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then” (Lowry 13). The ceremony of ten is mainly about the children getting more responsibilities and making their hair less childish. The narrator tells us this by saying “Then the Tens. Jonas never found the ceremony of Ten particularly interesting-only time-consuming, as each child’s hair was snipped neatly into its distinguishing cut: females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair and took on the more manly short style which exposed their ears” (Lowry 46).In our society, most people celebrate birthdays. When people have birthdays they gain responsibilities at one’s own, individual rate depending on the person. That is why some people are reckless and do not care about their responsibilities and others are stressed out from having to many responsibilities. Jonas’ community solves this problem by making everyone grow up at the same rate. Most people in his community have and manage their responsibilities at the same

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