Examples Of A Dystopian Society In The Giver

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.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a utopian society where there are rules for basically everything that people do. However, after reading the book, I realized that the community truly is not a utopian society but rather a dystopian society. The reasons why the seemingly utopian society is actually a dystopia is because there is no evidence of love, no colors, and the process of eliminating community members is harsh.

The Giver is considered as a dystopian society because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom. An example of this is when the text states, “you're ready for the pills, that's all. That’s the treatment for the stirrings.” They can't even have independent thoughts. Medication is given to prevent

The relevant theme shared by both text were sameness and equality. The both community were under the control of Chief or elder. In The Giver the reason Lois Lowry uses the word “sameness rather than “equality” because equality implies that people have certain basic human rights, which in the community in The Giver they didn’t. For example, they didn’t have the freedom to make choices as to who they marry or what job they do. However, since all their experiences throughout their early lives were controlled, they were all besides Jonas and The Giver. “So there will be a whole part of your life which you won’t be able to share with your family. It’s hard Jonas. It was for me.” said by the Giver because he had to sacrifice his life to become the Giver and he knew how hard it felt. In Harrison Bergeron, the government enforces their idea of equality by physically and mentally handicapping citizens. The beautiful must wear hideous masks or disfigure themselves, the graceful and strong must wear weight around their necks at all hours of the day and the intelligent must listen to earsplitting noises that impede their ability to think. “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” In both texts the protagonist try to solve a problem but they had created another problem by sharing it to the other members in the community. Also because they went against the rules and regulation the community were disrupted.

The Giver was a dystopian society because, it seems like a perfect world but it really isn’t, if anything is it very unpleasant or bad. Some of the ways The Giver is a dystopian society is that for one, you don’t have have feelings like love, sadness, loss, and pain so you don’t really feel anything for anyone or anything. Another disadvantage is that you can’t see color. When you see color it makes it so beautiful and you can relax but, it’s all black and white. The Third disadvantage is that you get executed if your a twin, too old, or you have been naughty.

The human race has spent millennia trying to form utopian societies, but have failed, and instead created dystopias. Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver dives deeper into the vast concept of ideal and perfect societies and then introduces the differences presented between our society and an organized and well thought out utopia. From this we know that life in the dystopian society of The Giver is different than the life in our society today. One of the first differences that can be noted between our lifestyles is the structure of our families, most importantly the amount of offspring included in a family.

The community in The Giver is not a question it is obviously a dystopia. The characters in The Giver are dystopian characters,the community has so many rules and the people do not even care about the repetitive rules. The people in the community are dystopian characters. I am positive about this because in chapter 7

In the community in The Giver nobody is unique .Everybody acts the same and does the same thing everyday .Everyday they get up eat breakfast,go to school / work ,community service , and then they go home eat dinner ,share their feelings ,and go to sleep.you should be able to wake up in the morning and do what you want to do and be who you want to be .

“An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.” This may sound like some third world country or a place torn apart by war, but in reality this is exactly the dystopian community found in The Giver. I take this position for three reasons, lack of freedom, lack of privacy, and the total amount of control the government in The Giver holds over its people. Time after time it is demonstrated that while on the surface the community may seem to be a perfect utopia, as it was intended to be, but instead it failed. By trying to change what was wrong with humanity they eliminated the rest.

When many people think of a dystopian society, like the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry, they think of the worst possible conditions and an overall farfetched idea of an actual society. In our modern day society, we can in fact see color, and we have an abundance of memories, but can our daily life be at all that different from the epitome of a dystopian society in The Giver? There are various differences between both societies as well as similarities. For example, our society has a different ideal where we appreciate differences unlike the dystopian society in The Giver that disparages differences. Our society also contrasts from the dystopian society since the people in The Giver society have fewer choices, like how they can only see in

The Giver Utopia Vs. Our World Most people don’t view our world as a dystopia, but it truly is. Unlike the world in The Giver, our world boasts features such as class and love, but also possesses poverty and crime.

In America, people over 18 can vote and help make the decisions that shape our community. But in The Giver, only the ones with high enough authority have a chance to speak their

The Giver is a dystopia because,of Sameness, the people are under surveillance, they do not live with their real parents.

The Giver by Lois Lowry takes its readers into a world of pure utopianism, or so it seems. The book portrays a seemingly perfect society in which there is no pain, hurt, and corruption. Lying beneath the veneer of perfection, however, is the fact that the community is in emotional and mental chaos. No one knew of the problems the society was facing, because the state of life in which they lived now was all they knew. The community was missing out on many wonderful things to obtain what they thought was perfection (Politics and Film Database).

The Givers society and the society we live in today have differences but also similarities such as who is the leader or figurehead in the community. The leader in our society is the President. The President approves or veto´s the laws that the branches of government make. But in ¨The Giver¨ the figurehead is The Chief