Dystopian Quotes For The Giver

Dystopia is common theme which dates hundreds of years in literature worldwide. Dystopian novels and short stories often depict a society repressed by a totalitarian government which comes to power after a cataclysmic occurrence, wielding unforgiving power and control over inhabitants for their own good. These dystopias are often perceived by the average citizen as a normal or unavoidable way of life, sometimes even a better way of life, yet there is often a single person or group of protagonists who question the justification of such living arrangements and threaten upheaval of the utopia sold by the ruling class.

The book The Giver is a neat book. We all know some of us cry when reading or watching The Giver. The Giver takes place in a little society with so many rules. I mean who goes and killed babies and old people (evil). The Giver utopia or dystopia? In my opinion I think the giver is a dystopia because you will have no choices, you will go through pain and if you become a nurturer you will kill babies.

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.

Is Jonas’s community a perfect place to live in, or is a “nightmare” or a not so perfect place to live in? In The Giver, Jonas’s community is a dystopia due to utopian characteristics, dystopian characteristics, and dystopian exceptions. Firstly, I will be

In the book The Giver Jonas and the community have little choices they can make. In America we have lots of choices like how long your hair is, what you are going to wear to school and what color we want to wear. In Jonas’ community they cant even do that. Jonas left the community because he yearned for the freedom of choice. “If every things the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(PG97). Jonas wants to be able to pick his own tunic and job, but in the giver community he cant. He wants to pick his own spouse. Jonas is tired of sameness

Everyone was once thought that the Jonas’ society was the most brilliant place in the universe. No war nor death could be found there. In the most extreme case, in order to protect people there to be having a right choice, the way for them to achieve it was not by education, but to restrict them from choosing. Do you want to be living in such a place without the freedom of choice? I guess no one does. Therefore, I learned that freedom is also an important element to build up a balanced community.

Throughout our lives, as humans, we have to make many decisions about things such as, the clothes we wear, the people we will mary, and even the jobs we will work at. However, these decisions can either be very good for us, or they can come back to haunt us later in life. It is dangerous for us as humans, to make our own decisions, and it would be safer if society made these tough decisions for us. In the story, “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, Jonas comes to the conclusion that letting people choose the things such as their clothes, their spouse, and their job would be very dangerous. If society chose things for people, then life would be a lot safer for everyone. Also, many bad things that can harm people can be better by society choosing things for people. It would be more dangerous for us to get through our lives if society didn’t make decisions for us. It is dangerous for us as humans, to make our own decisions, and it would be safer if society made these tough decisions for us.

A dystopian society, usually illusory, is the reverse of an idyllic utopia: it is generally tyrannical and inhibited. Dystopian societies mirror our future- they are usually a hyperbolic familiar society with satirical exaggeration. This kind of literature is written to amend other people 's idea of the kind of society they should thrive for. As well as that, they are written to express their concerns about the future and humanity. Societies of this nature appear in many works of fiction, predominantly in novels set in a speculative future. Dystopian culture is often mused by societal collapse, dehumanization, poverty, and deprivation.

Unlike us where we have the privilege of choosing even though most of the time we choose wrong. “‘What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And choose wrong’ (98).” This is Jonas after he learned about choices and how bad they could be. I think that he is totally right because in our world people have had multiple wife’s or husbands. They can never choose the wrong job and be jobless for the rest of their lives or choose the wrong husband or wife. If they had kids and they got a divorce the kids are sad for the rest of their lives having to go to a different parents house each week. If someone loses their job and can’t afford a house they could be homeless with kids living on the side of the street with no food or shelter.

The final reason that I think the Giver portrays a dystopian society is their method of release. They may think that they’re sorting out good and bad, but what do they know? If they don’t know anything about love, why should they know about pain, suffering, death, and war? Everyone outside of the releasing room thought their dear friend was going Elsewhere… but the people inside that horrid room witnessed, or committed, the murder of innocents. There were no such things as identical twins; the lighter one would be killed. The people had no perception of death, for all they know that little baby, which just happened to be 3 ounces lighter than his brother, could really be going Elsewhere. Even if they’re traveling there through a garbage chute. Not only children were released though, as Jonas’ mother tells them it can happen to the middle aged too, “‘You know that there’s no third chance. The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.’” (pg.9). Some people were so ignorant on the subject that they used the word as a joke, like the speaker when the pilot flew over the town, “NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing…” (pg.2). Who wants to

If people chose our society we wouldn’t make wrong decisions because your decisions would be made for you. We could work together on building the community. Fitting in would not be a problem. In the community of Sameness nobody judges each other because they are all the same and that provides a good environment you can be comfortable in. There would be more peace. Having things chosen for you is less stressful than choosing yourself. By choosing yourself you may chose the wrong career unlike Jonas’s society when the Committee of Elders chose your career for

Jonas society is a utopian society because everything and everyone is the same. How are people suppose to see the differences in life if they can't see no color. On the other hand if you wanted to pick a color to wear they could not because no one can see color(Lowry 120).we relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.Jonas replied ¨we shouldn't have!¨he

In the novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry also presented that Jonas’ ability to see color conjointly contributed to the theme in the novel, which was the importance of color, by proving that since Jonas can see color he can see the attractiveness in life. For example, in the novel, it indicates, “There would be a glimpse of green ----- the landscaped lawn around the Central Plaza; a bush on the river bank. The bright trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary ------ seen in an instant, flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hue less shade.” This explains what beauty Jonas sees in most of his daily life, and to him he would prefer those colors that he sees for a brief moment than the

Lowry shows that without any freedom, there are many emotions that cannot be felt. After learning that there were more feelings, emotions, and choices to that could be made from the memories he received, Jonas starts making his own choices, “The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories told him to throw the pill away.

This symbolises how Jonas is finally separating from the caged community and is branching out by wanting to be able to choose something for once. The community has always engrained the idea of needing