Dystopian Places In The Giver

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.

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.

Can the society in The Giver be considered an utopia or dystopia? Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver got her idea in 1992 when she went to go visit her father. She then discovered that her father was losing his memory, but her mother wasn’t. This then made Lowry questions if live would be easier if all the painful memories disappeared. Is The Giver's community an Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom, people of the community are oblivious to what is happening around them, and the Committee of Elders are abusing their power.

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.

Joana’s gets an assignment of the Receiver of Memory. He meets the old Receiver, The Giver who shows him beyond his society and gives him memories of our society. The good and bad. Eventually The Giver and Jonas come up with a plan to escape, so the community can receive the memories Jonas has. Although the society in The Giver is, in some ways, similar to modern society, the differences in feelings, choice, and individuality between the societies make The Giver's society a true dystopia.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an amazing book. It presents a society that tries to create a perfect world of harmony and peace. Unfortunately, individuality is lost from the people and their emotions are restricted. They are all living in a world of ignorance created by the author and continue to do so willingly. In doing so, Lois Lowry portrays a dystopian world, instead of a perfect one, by creating a society where individuality is lost and emotions are not important. Some people think this world is perfect and could work in modern life, while others can clearly see how this is nothing but a controlling dystopia that would ultimately fail.

The Giver is a novel that is set in  a society that strives to be a utopia. A utopia is  essentially a is “a place where no one has to make a decision, feel pain or even have a negative thought or a bad memory” (Goepfert). In The Giver their community focuses so intensely on this concept of a peace that they make many sacrifices in their pursuit to obtain it. This includes the loss of emotion, lack of individuality, deceit of the public, and a great burden on a small few.  Ultimately the cost of this utopia is too high for this society.

Would the society in “the giver” be a Utopia or Dystopia ? the society is a dystopia because there is sameness, surveillance,and control.

An example of a utopian society is The Giver, in it, all pain, fear, war, and hatred are eliminated so there is no competition for all the citizens look and act basically the same. The Giver controls what the citizens know, which is nothing about the past, eliminating disagreement. This is a utopia taking into consideration that everyone and everything is the same. Although the new Giver, Jonas, wants his community to be different, so it ends up being a dystopia. There is loads of action involved like when Jonas and baby Gabriel escape into elsewhere. This is also how The Giver ends up being a dystopia, Jonas wants his community to experience emotion and feelings instead of their bland, boring lives but his risk may cause the cessation of his

In The Giver, there is a dystopian community and there is a person responsible to hold the memories of the community, joyful and painful ones.They are called receiver of memory. They get heavily weighted and they feel stressed out because of this. It is inconsiderate that they have to hold memories for everyone in the community. Every person should be aware of what is happening and understand their past. They should also be able to decide things for themselves. Instead of having the chief elder deciding everything for them.

Having the dystopian fiction in our future would not be the best. If you have read The Giver, you might notice that it the community is controlled by rules. Almost as if it is dictated. Worse than the rules we have. For an example you can not show any kind of affection(holding hands) unless it is inside your family unit. Today's world you can, it just has to be appropriate. Of course not all the time is PDA accepted but it still happens.

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." A dystopia consists of something that makes a person tremble or have them cringe in disgust. It consists of a person's worst nightmares but never compares to others. It is rare for one's dystopia to match another. Lois Lowry was visiting her father who had lost parts of his memory, an idea popped into her head. What would life be if it were similar to her father's, a world where you wouldn't remember those painful memories of the past? Although her idea of a utopia seems almost perfect, it raises the question, can Jonas's community be considered bad or good? I believe that the Giver can be considered as an example for a dystopia because of the unfortunate circumstances that lead the

The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry, and is one of society’s most known novels that depicts a story of a futuristic community involving a very altered view of life. Throughout the novel, the main character Jonas encounters a variety of different life experiences than that of his fellow community members. At the young age of twelve Jonas is given the official assignment of the “Receiver of Memory” (Lowry 64). With this duty, Jonas begins to gain knowledge of the past. This includes memories of both good and bad experiences that were lived throughout the community. As the novel continues Jonas begins interacting with a new child from the nurturing center named Gabriel. Gabriel seems to be a very different child and begins developing

In The Giver, the setting is dystopia. It is dystopia because people have been reduced to the point where they have no emotions and are incapable of their own thoughts. The fact they are unable to think for themselves leaves them defenceless against the government trying to control them. In the book the society is made to seem as a utopia, due to the fact there seems to be no pain, sadness, or death. However, the truth is the only reason we believe there is no pain or sadness is because they have been cut out of society with things like happiness and love. Death however is still there, the only reason we believe it isn’t is because it’s been given another name ‘release’. In a scene where Jonas is with the Giver, they watch a video. In the video