Jonas Society Is A Dystopian Society

Some examples why this society is not perfect are you can't touch people outside your dwelling and, you can't bring food outside your dwelling. You have to take a shot to have no feelings, and you can't be independent. Jonas did these things. And Jonas believed everyone should be independent. This made Jonas different, he knows that his society is wrong because he knows the real world is independent and it is better to be different then to be the same.

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

Imagine living your life with no feelings, no choices, and no individuality; that is what it is like living in Jonas’ community. Visualize being only one of a few that knows what the world used to be like with joy, excitement, sadness, and fear; but you cannot change anything. All you can do is receive more memories of freedom, love, war, and happiness. Would that not haunt you? You can just watch the people of the community and know moat of humanity has been stropped of them like a band aid on a cut after it has healed, and only a scar is left; but the skin will never be the same.

In conclusion, lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control are all examples of Jonas’s community being a dystopia. Lack of knowledge is an dystopia because you’re not learning all you need to. Sameness is an example of a dystopia because there is nothing going on everything is ordinary , no color, no personal lives are the same. Complete control is a dystopia because your entire life is controlled, how many kids, your spouse, everything. In The Giver the people are oblivious their imperfections all except for

In Lois Lowry's "The Giver," the biggest change in Jonas is how Sameness becomes defective in his mind. Sameness was an idea, instituted by the elders of all communities, that removed religion, color, feelings, weather, and many other aspects of life from the world. As Jonas takes in more memories, he comes to realize that Sameness isn't so amazing after all. Lowry supports this by stating in her novel,"'Or what if... they chose their own jobs?...' Jonas chuckled. 'Very frightening. I can't even imagine it'"(Lowry 124). In other words, Jonas starts off by thinking that Sameness is good and is for the well being of the community and its residents. Truly, Jonas is trying to rationalize Sameness in his mind. Later in the novel, Lowry states

However, Document E proves that Jonas’s community is a dystopia. This persuaded me because people don’t get to make their own decisions. “ ‘Yes, I know about Gabriel.’ ‘Well, he’s right at the age where he’s learning so much. He grabs toys when we hold them in front of him — my father says he’s learning small-muscle control. And he’s really cute.’ The Giver nodded ‘But now that I can see colors, at least sometimes, I was just thinking: what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and he could choose? Instead of the Sameness.’ ‘He might make wrong choices.’ “Oh,’ Jonas was silent for a minute. ‘Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn’t matter for a new child's toy. But later it does matter, doesn’t it? We don’t dare to let people make choices of their own.’ ‘Not safe?’ The Giver suggested. ‘Definitely not safe,’ Jonas said with certainty. ‘What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?’ ‘Or what if,’ he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, ‘they chose their own jobs?’ ‘Frightening, isn’t it?’The Giver said.” In this scene, Jonas argues with the giver and tells him that he doesn’t want to live in a world without color and a world where you don’t get to make any decisions on your own and that is what

In the text it shows how he has his opinion on perfection and so do others. They say in Jonas’ community being the same, looking alike, is perfect. Jonas has a different perspective on that throughout

Dystopian Life “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (Lowry) In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, life seems peachy keen.

You could argue that this book is a dystopia because they aren’t free and can’t make their own choice but the problem is a lot of the time we choose wrong and it affects our whole life. For example, what happens if someone choose to not go to college and end up working at a fast food restaurant for half of their life. Then they can’t support their family if they were even lucky enough to have one without a descent job and they could end up going to college when their 40 or 50 trying to get a descent job. Be honest though no one wants to do that. In Jonas’s community people watch over other people and assign what they think is the right job for them for the rest of their lives and not have to worry about putting food on the table

If you push aside the differences, our two societies are similar in some ways. Both of our societies dislike differences. We also have families, even if they don’t love each other in Jonas’s society. We both have jobs, families, rules, and spouses.

How would you feel if you lived in a society that kills you if you make three mistakes or a society that forces you to take pills so all of your feelings go away? Jonas is forced to live in a dystopia where nothing goes wrong, but Jonas is special enough to see what the Committee of Elders is really doing. The government tailors the society to where they see fit. Memories are taken away from people without any say. Memories of the past should not be taken away from civilians. Dystopian societies are hard to manage and create because people are not made to be the same as everyone else. They often cause problems that end in violence. Utopian societies are inimical and should not be created.

Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms and individualities—for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more obvious that the community is a horrible place in which to live. You as a reader can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes

Would you want to live in a perfect society? Where you never go hungry or feel pain? Then you should live in Jonas’s society. Jonas’s society and the American Society have different way of life; however, also has some similarities. Jonas’s society has limited freedom and is controlled by the government, while our society has full freedom and doesn’t depend entirely on the government.

Jonas’s society has many rituals some of them are the telling of feelings and dream telling. Telling of feeling is when your family unit sits down at dinner and shares there feelings about the day and say if anything is bothering them. Dream telling is when your family unit sits down in the morning and shares if they had any dreams that night before. In the beginning of the book, Jonas explains “It was one of the

When Jonas tries to leave because of the bad rules and ways of the community he releases the all the memories that he held. Which in turn will bring the downfall of the community because the people cannot handle all those depressing memories. The moral is that you should not even think of making a Utopian society because bad things will happen, and it is easier to avoid that if you don't make one at all. People who think that a Utopian society is possible say that you can make it possible by using the rules the people contribute and make them happy with the implementation of these rules and ideas. They have the wrong idea because even if you do that some people will always not like these rules, and will eventually get their voice heard and many will agree.