Comparing The Giver: Living In 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.

The community in The Giver is also not a utopia because without choice you can not have goals and therefore have nothing to strive for, and life can become very boring. In The Giver the people that live in the community have no choices. They cannot choose their own jobs and they cannot see color which limits their choices. Without such choices the

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

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic, dichotomous society, one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world, the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia, but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved, they choose to perpetuate the deception, allowing the community, as a whole, to continue on blissful ignorance. When young Jonas is confronted with all the truths of the present and all the memories of the past, he must choose for himself

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.

b) How can a society or culture ever improve if people will always disagree on how to improve?

Dystopia. A place where everything is imperfect and unpleasant.That's exactly where the main character of the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, lives. Jonas grows up in a locked community. There is no freedom and the rules are completely insane. Since Jonas is the Receiver Of Memory, he can notice how badly the residents of the community are getting treated. In the book The Giver, the world is a plain dystopia. From extremely strict rules to life of sameness, Jonas lives life through it all.

The Giver strives to be a utopian society but the still can’t be perfect. The Giver is a book with the main character being Jonas, Jonas has no last name; however, no one else had the last name in their society. The Giver is a Dystopian because they get their memories erased, they are all equal, and they get assigned jobs when they are 12.

In Jonas’s world their community is a dystopian society. Their community is a dystopia because the citizens have no choices, the society is in “Sameness”, and the people who run the community make all the decisions.

Would you consider a society with no freedom, no choice-making, and no individuality ¨perfect¨; a society where everyone practices sameness. Lois Lowry has created this place. A community which may seem perfect at first, but as you keep reading further you will comprehend that the society is more of a dystopian society than a utopian society. Many things between modern day society and The Giver's society are very different such as the family units, their individuality, and their titles/jobs ; although there is also many similarities.

Have you ever thought about different societies around the world? Some are Utopian and Dystopian. Being in America we are spoiled by our freedom. There are many places in the world that don’t have as much freedom as we do. There are many differences and similarities between our society and other societies.

Everybody has a different opinion on a utopian and dystopian society, Jonas’s has a little of both.However, some things are alike some are also different.While modern society is similar in some ways to Jonas’s society, the differences in birthdays, jobs, and mourning death reveal how different people have differences preferences for a dystopian and utopian society.

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.

Anthem is a book about a golden age society. Most of the time that means that it is a dystopian book. But this society is not destroyed by the people. It is a good city that has been transported to the old west sort of. They don't have any electricity so they have to use torches and candles for lights. They have a council of scholars that does all of the inventions for the world because every city is the same. Every one is the same. They are not allowed to look at themselves and they can not say the unspeakable word. It is I, if they say this word they are punished by death from the council of scholars. I is an independent word. Therefore they are speaking about themselves and they are not allowed to think about themselves. they can only think