Essay Comparing The Giver And Gathering Blue

My first reason on why I think the giver is a dystopia because they don’t get to choose their jobs. They have ceremony every year and when you turn twelve they get assigned a job. People will get assigned a job that they might not like, but there is a chance that they could get a job they like. For example on page 60“ in a firm, commanding voice she announced, ‘Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver Of Memory”. Jonas was nervous at first about his job because the chief elder has described his job as painful and that the pain was “ indescribable.” Later he then just wants to be a regular child instead of being the Reciever.

For example, in Document E, Jonas and the Giver were having a conversation about not being able to see color. In the end, they both settled the conversation with this, “ Definitely not safe, Jonas said with certainty. What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?” This shows that people in The Giver can’t make any choices of their in.

The Giver demonstrates a society that diminishes the individuality of oneself and makes them into someone they aren't. The Giver depicts the dangers of a perfectly equal world through everyone being the same, the government being an autocracy,

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

In the novel The Giver, the everyday life for the characters is like that.There are no colors instead everything is in gray, Nobody has emotions even the word "love" is considered an insult and as for choices, A group of people called the elders, make all the decisions for everyone.Soon Jonas discovers a darker side to his community. I think the question has many elements to it, that lets us further understand the novel and characters, I think Jonas made the right decision by leaving the community because it helped Jonas find a better life and it let the community experience feelings.

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

A true utopia requires sacrifices many people cannot condone. This fact has been shown throughout The Giver. The community decides to sacrifice many things to come to Sameness. Pain, individuality and love are among many things that they have sacrificed (Lowry 124). These sacrifices made the community Jonas lived in seemingly perfect; there is no hunger, no war, no pain, no one will ever be alone. But, a perfect community is completely unrealistic. That is why they have The Giver, the person that knows all the imperfections of the society and help the society to achieve perfection.

Imagine a world without hunger. In this utopic world, people have peace and health. Would it really be better? In the books The Giver and Gathering Blue, this situation and the complete opposite are covered, respectively. While they synchronize on many topics, they diverge dramatically on others, providing a stark contrast.

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.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

    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.

Life decisions are what shapes you to who you are. If you were told who to marry, how many children to have, where to live, and what job to have really isn’t living is it? In a world of sameness, everything stays the same and does not change. In The Giver, the story is told through a black and white image, that is until Jonas discovers colors. The receiver and the giver have a hard time connecting with the rest of the community due to being able to see what others cannot. “He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on (Lowry, 99).” Jonas starts to get frustrated over the fact that no one else cares about being all the

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,

The family situation is quite different in both novels. The members of The Giver community have a structure quite like ours. Each family unit has a mother, father, daughter and son. In Huxley’s novel, each person lives alone in an apartment. They have no spouse or child. The only partners they have are their temporary sexual partners. It is discouraged for them to have one partner for a long period of time. Birth in both societies is significantly dissimilar. Birthmothers, in Lowry’s novel, are the only women that give birth to children. They do not get to keep the child, or even see the child. These children are then sent to Nurturing Centers, where they spend one year before being sent to live with a family. In “Brave New World” there is no woman that sits through a nine month pregnancy. All babies come to life at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The lower caste systems, Gamma, Delta and Epsilons, undergo the Bokanovsky Process. Most of the women in the society are freemartins and they are required to use the Malthusian Drill, which is a form of birth control. Similar to how the “Brave New World” community members are conditioned to

Individuality is one of the key components of reaching the utopian standard. However, in The Giver, the community rejects the idea of individuality and instead focuses on developing Sameness, therefore initiating a form of control by allowing them to not express their own personality to shine, and alternately forcing them to contort into these soft putty-shaped beings with zero individuality at all. Conversations between Jonas and The Giver that occur throughout the novel informs the audience that the community lacks a sense of uniqueness and results in an absence of options to choose from.