Compare And Contrast Essay On The Giver

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

Overall, Jonas’s community in “The Giver” is a utopia. It is a utopia because everyone gets a job, no one starves so there basic needs are met, and no one has feelings so they cannot feel pain or sadness. “The Giver” is a perfect example of the definition of a utopia, “an imaginary and indefinitely remote place, and a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions”

What would it feel like living in a world which everyone is same and the life is monotone?In “The Giver”,written by Lois Lowry,there’s a community based on perfection and the citizens who have strict and ethic rules to prevent their community from becoming unethical and unequal.Lowry conveyed her ideas both with in advantages and disadvantages,and the diversity which citizens in the community have lost.

In The Giver the authorities aim at achieving “Sameness” which means all people must be equal and the same. Lois Lowry describes a world of “sameness” where the lack of differences allows all members of the community to have predetermined roles and to follow an enforced set of rules. The Elders depict sameness in a way that makes it sound absolutely necessary, and without it, the whole world may fall apart. In the community of The Giver people accept everything as it is because they do not know any difference: “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time … we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference” (Lowry, Giver 95). This sameness is terrifying and further imposes conformity on all people. So the community of The Giver is a uniformed society. People wear the same clothes; eat the same food; their houses are the same; and most of them look the same as well. By the age of ten, they all have the same short hair style: “females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair took on the more manly style which exposed their ears” (Lowry, Giver 46). In The Giver the purpose of sameness is to protect people from wrong choices and to achieve safety for them.

How would it feel if this world didn’t let people have choices, didn’t let people share, or if they didn’t let people celebrate birthdays, holidays, or just celebrate anything? Well that’s what it was like for Jonas in The Giver. Jonas lives in the future in a community where The Giver is the only one who knows everything, but soon all that changed for Jonas. He became the the community 's new Receiver of Memory, and soon Jonas learns the terrible secrets of this “utopian” community. Later on as he learns some more about the community’s secrets he makes a plan to leave the community, and to take Gabe with him so he wouldn’t get released.(which means they die, but the community doesn’t understand that) In this book choices, sharing, and celebrations would have made The Giver community more positive.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry takes place in a world of no color, no emotion, and no memory. It has nothing but the present. This is a world where the public strives for Sameness, meaning that everything is hand-picked for you instead. Your job, your partner, your children, and whether you live or if you’re released. In many people’s eyes, this is a utopia, it’s the perfect world.

The novel I’m relating “The Giver” to is the graphic novel Persepolis. Throughout topics of conformation I will be showing the many similarities between both novels. To begin, in both novels the main characters live in a kind of dictatorship/monarchy kind of society. To add, in both novels it’s seen for both characters to rebel against this form of government. To better explain, in the novel the giver the reader sees Jonas’s rebellious tendencies.

Hadn’t you always seen different things that happen between the book and the movie? Well, today I'm going to be finding similarities and differences between the book and the movie of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. To begin with, first are similarities about the book and the movie. My first similarity is in the book and movie they used an injection to kill the people that's going to be released. They would take them to a room and will inject them.

In Conclusion, a perfect society is not possible because we are all humans and we are not perfect. In The Giver it shows that it is impossible to create and

Wouldn’t it be great to live somewhere where everything is perfect? Well that's what Jonas’s community in The Giver wants to be. Many people believe it is a utopia, but it is quite the opposite. The community is a dystopia because they slaughter all of the citizens, restrict knowledge, and constantly watch them through surveillance cameras.

What would it be like if the whole world was perfect? It is not possible to have a perfect society. The word utopia translates to no place. In society today, we are a very long way from perfect. Modern day society and the community in The Giver are alike in a lot of ways, but they do have some big differences.

People often wonder what it is like to live in the “perfect world”, but do they really know it consists of? The Giver runs along the lines of a utopian society or “perfect world”. With all the rules and laws that help the community run smoothly, but limit the power to do so much more. Compared to our society we have so much more room to “breath.” Society today compared to The Giver society is so different but structured in the same way our society uses it

In The Giver, the community has been trying for so long to create a utopian, or a perfect world, that they have lost what it means to be human, the community, while trying to create utopia they have created a dystopian society by getting rid of everything like choosing what job to do or what clothes to wear, they have gotten rid of experiencing different things for different people, like from the person next door

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Utopia because no one is ever starving, no one really feels pain, and they can’t choose wrong. Throughout our world I have seen many people on the sides of streets having no food, no home, and no family with no one helping them to have a better life. I have also seen people helping the homeless and shelters but in this book they don’t need to do that because everybody already has a home and food. Plus they don’t have to ask for money and food, they already have it.

What if you lived in a community with no clue that your life was not as perfect as you thought? In Louis Lowry's The Giver, Jonas lives in what the community thinks is a Utopia but they haven't experienced the real world. His community is a Dystopia because of the lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control.