Is The Giver A Utopia Or A Dystopia

Have readers ever wondered what if the world was completely perfect,or if it was completely wrong, and not what it seems ? Well, the community represented in The Giver can be considered a distopia, because of control,constant surveillance, and sameness.

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 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.

Is a community with a little freedom a utopia? Imagine a world that only has one culture. Nothing would be different, there would be no issues between people everyone was the same. Everyone has a different point of view in different situations. There would be no climate, no weather, no emotions, and no memories. In Louis Lowry The Giver , Lowry created what seemed like more of a distopia to me. In The Giver, a small community is in a “perfect society” where they provide food, there are arranged pairs and have no feelings for eachother and can’t see any color and have no memories. The main character, Jonas becomes the receiver of memory and finds out new things about the community that no one knows about except for him and The giver. The Giver is a elder who has memories about the past the no one knows about except for him and jonas. He shares some of the

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

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.

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.

Have you ever thought about different societies around the world? Some are Utopian and Dystopian. Being in America we are spoiled by our freedom. There are many places in the world that don’t have as much freedom as we do. There are many differences and similarities between our society and other societies.

The setting of The Giver functions symbolically from the Elders using sameness in an attempt to create a utopian society. The setting itself symbolizes how perfect sameness is unachievable yet the community still strives against uniqueness. In the text it strongly states how sameness is being used in a point of view of one of the major characters lily, she has to wear her ribbons because of her age group which was set a rule by the elders: “‘I don’t like hair ribbons, I’m glad I only have to wear them one more year,’ Lily said irritably, “next year I get my bicycle too,” she added more cheerfully.” The text strictly unfolds how the community is symbolizing similarity to each and every person in the community. Without any person being unique

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas’ experiences develop a theme that affects the way Sameness has positive or negative results. Jonas’ experiences develop many different outcomes, whether they are positive or negative. Throughout the novel Lowry formed the text to show how Sameness affects everyone in the community not just Jonas. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that Sameness is not always the best option. Although some readers may believe that Sameness helps the community do the right things, Jonas thinks differently.

The giver society vs. our society Have you ever wondered what our community was all the same the same skin tone the same house same every thing. In the book “the giver,” everything is the same, I will be comparing and contrasting the giver society to our society. I will be talking about the differences of precision of language between our community and the givers. I will also contrast our family situations and theirs’. The one thing I will be comparing our school to theirs’.

Vinh 7B In the giver book, there is the a dystopian society. That community is a dystopian society because it is unfreedom society, The freedom in that community is restricted. That community is really bad with a lot of weird rules made by the leader of this community, Chief Elder. In the Giver, the community has an independent thought.

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.

Also, The Giver’s Society believe in the same religion compared to modern society, which has 19 major religions. In modern society, most people view individuality as a good thing. Take immigrants as an example. Most people are ok with others coming from other countries and living in the “Land Of The Free”. We get to wear bright pink if we want or wear all black if we choose but The Giver’s community can only wear their assigned clothing, which is the same as everyone else’s.

The main idea of The Giver is that it is a dystopia because a few reasons, secrecy, equality, and crime and violence. My first reason is that if it's a utopia, you shouldn't be keeping secrets from people. On page 79 it says “which the man deftly snapped to the end that said OFF” this quote shows that if you always have a speaker on, and you turned the speaker off, you must be hiding something from the community and that's not an example of a good utopia. A good utopia would share everything with everyone.