Compare And Contrast The Giver To A Dystopian Society

The Giver is a world renowned book but a large portion people do not know of it’s impact on dystopian literature. The Giver was written in 1993 and won the John Newbery prize. The story itself is about a boy named Jonas living in a dystopian society. The Giver is impacting the genre of dystopias by igniting the rise of Dystopian novels. The Giver achieved this with it’s appeal and popularity. Evidence proving these facts are the dystopian novels publicated after The Giver. The appeal of The Giver contributed to the impact on dystopian literature greatly.

The community,presented in The Giver can be considered a dystopia because of control,sameness,and constant surveillance.

To me a utopia cannot be achieved, a utopia would be “perfect world” where everyone is satisfied. A dystopia can be very far from perfect, as it is in The Giver. The world in The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopia because no world anywhere can ever be perfect, the people who live there will never be truly happy and because without choice life can be very boring, as it is in The Giver.

The role that the rules play in this utopian community are very unusual, but helps you understand what is happening and what the community is like. The role of these rules is to help everyone in that same community be equal. In the novel being equal is called sameness. Everyone has to follow the same rules, at each age there is a ceremony. At each age each individual that is the same age as you will get the same clothing or object. The rules play an important role, because if these rules didn't apply, then you wouldn't be able to picture the story as well. You also wouldn't be able to understand what the author is trying to tell you.

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

In today’s society there are many authors who write dystopian novels. They write these novels to give knowledge and to tell how our world is very different from dystopian life. Lois Lowry shows readers how people can suffer in dystopian society. In The Giver, Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but in reality it is a dystopia because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom, dehumanization, and their strict regulations.

The purpose of the rules is similar to its existence. The State wanted control over its people to ensure their idea of a utopia. When Equality was taken to the Palace of Corrective Detention because he would not tell him about his whereabouts, he was lashed because the ones in charge didn’t know where and what he was doing. This is an example of the controlling power of the government. They have put into the minds of the citizens that secrecy and solitude are terrible and should be punished for. “‘Indeed you are happy,’ they answered. ‘How else can men be when they live for their brothers?’” (Rand 45). The State thinks that if all these rules are set in place, the people are guaranteed happiness. This is not true of course, when Equality describes his brothers as “...shrinking and wished to shrink out of sight,” (Rand 46). Equality noticed that his brothers, as well as himself, were not happy. Although the government believes all these rules are beneficial to the people, in reality, they were making their lives pointless.

To begin, the rules created by the leaders of the state were made to keep complete order within the city. In the novel, when Equality broke out of the house of

There are very harsh rules in the society from the novel Anthem, by Ayn Rand. These rules are very unfair, but the people don’t realize it because they’ve become so accustomed to the injustice. The government is power hungry and would stop at nothing to keep everyone in control. However to have a stable society you need at least some rules to keep bad things and people away, so Equality 7-2521 will probably use some of the same rules, but less intense and strict. The main character Equality 7-2521 runs away and will start his own society without a destructive power involved.

One reason why the book “Anthem” has a lot of rules is because in Chapter 1 its state that there were some laws called the world council and that they took all the words that we use to described individualism and remove and had saying “We Are one in all and all in one, there are no men but only the great WE, One indivisible and forever. Basically, the reason why they want these rules so no one can have their own ideas or do things on their own. They were also divide into groups based on their looks and how they acted like. These rules indirectly showed collectivism in a rude way which gave rise to lack of individualism. The citizens of the city in Anthem were expected to follow every single rule existing in that society, or else it would be a severe punishment or they would be put to death.

First, the rules are in place so that it cuts down crime. Having everyone follow the rules will keep the crime rates low. Having a lot of laws in place will make it that everyone will act like each other. Crimes are going to happen in every society, but in this novel, the crimes are lower, because there are so many rules to prevent crimes that could later occur. Also in this society, there are punishments, like every society. In Anthem the punishments are more extreme than in a normal society. The rules are way more strict than in our society. The crime rate in Anthem is lower than in our society. The reason for that is that the laws that follow makes them act different than we would in a so called “normal” society.

The world is based on rules, laws and regulations. If people were free to do as the please the world would be in mass chaos. Many of my peers have wanted a rule free society to do as they please I was surprised on what they most likely wanted. Society was built on rules for a reason humans are imperfect we make mistakes but also some make bigger mistakes like under aged drinking younger people would be crashing cars. There would be no fire departments, police departments, or hospitals. We had just finished The Giver were people live in a so called utopia. This utopia was a mask of the reality of life and was full of lies and unsureness. I will prove to you that rules are in import to the world and everyone in it.

Would the society in The Giver be a utopia or an dystopia. The community presented in The Giver can be considered a dystopia because of control, sameness, and contrast surveillance.

The Giver by Lois Lowry revolves over the same idea as the lottery. Both dystopian stories show help people Force themselves in a tradition without seeking for a change in order to interfere with negative consequences. The lottery sets place in a village where the lucky winner of the contest is stoned to death. Instead of questioning their practices, individuals within each Community lead their people with fear

Without rules and regulations all civilization would plunge into chaos, as there would be nothing protecting us from one another’s most basic self serving instincts, and sometimes self-destructive habits. Often time’s simple rules and regulations protect us from ourselves, such as not touching a hot furnace or driving through an intersection when the light is red. If we look just at laws of the road one can quickly see how many devastating accidents would occur (and how many lives would be ruined) if no one followed the rules of the road. Without the utmost care to follow these rules, things that could easily be prevented may happen, resulting in very negative things.