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Examples Of Dystopia In The Giver

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Dystopia. What does dystopia mean? Utopia. What does utopia mean? Dystopia is an imagined place or state where everything is deficient typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Compared with utopia. When utopia is an imagined place or state of things of which everything is perfect. In Lois Lowry`s novel “The Giver” takes place in an Utopian world. In “The Giver” “the community “resorted to “sameness”. What is sameness? Sameness is where everyone is exactly the same. What do you mean? Everyone is the same so there is no color and no memories. In the novel “The Giver” nine year olds get their bikes and females have to wear hair ribbons and keep them tied at all times. At age eight children have to start there volunteer hours. At age twelve the children are chosen for their jobs at the ceremony of twelve. What is the ceremony of twelve? The ceremony of twelve’s is just like the ceremony of ones ,twos, threes, fours, fives, six’s, sevens, eights, nines, tens, elevens, and twelves. The only difference for the twelve is at the age twelve you get assigned your job. Your jobs are chosen based off of what you spent most of your volunteer hours. …show more content…

You might be wondering how there is no color. There is no color do to there being no memories. No memories? Yes you heard me there is no color and no memories. So how do the people see their world? How do they remember things? They can remember the things that they did but they have no memories of things like snow, ice, sleds, music, pain or anything like that so they just remember things like what they did yesterday and stuff like that. You might be wondering what they see because they can’t see color that see black and white they do not see green blue orange yellow indigo violet or any other color they do not even know that colors

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