Jonas's Dystopia 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.

Jonas perspective was different from Asher’s perspective because they don’t have the same life and some things they can’t relate to. Jonas had more problems in his life then Asher. Jonas have a selection but don’t know what it’s meant for and in that perspective of his he have to find out what that’s meant for. On the other hand Asher doesn’t have a selection yet so he don’t know exactly how Jonas takes things. So Asher and Fiona helps Jonas figure out what he needs to know about his selection.

Have you ever imagined a community where there is no color, no emotions, no individuality, the government make decisions for you and everything is the same? That what it's in Jonas' community when they started sameness, there no color, everything was the same and citizens of the community had no rights, an exemplification of having rights in the community is , everyone in the community cannot choose their spouse. As a result, sameness, what Utopian society Jonas lives in is based on, has no real benefits to the community because there are no emotions, no individuality and no choices.

To most kids in our society, the changes in Jonas’s world would be difficult to accept because we in America value our freedom to choose and to voice our desires. Did the creator’s of Jonas’s community truly improve society as we know it today?

Jonas blindly follows rules of the community because he doesn't know any better. Jonas in the beginning followed all the rule that his superiors told him to do and took all the medicine and the medicine that he take keeps him from seeing his dreams and seeing color.jonas also at the begging shared his dreams and plays with his friends after school and he actually goes to school.jonas didn’t see what he was doing was bad for him in his life tell he got the job of the giver. Jonas is beginning to learn about the society for what it actually is.he starts having feeling of joy,and feels pain sees coloring because of the giver. help him and showed him what the society is actually doing to him and what the medicine is doing to him and his family

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

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

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

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

Jonas when making the choice of leaving the community is doubtful, because of the choice he made it made all the difference like in the road not taken where the narrator chooses the path not taken leading to all the difference. during Jonas’ journey he kind of regrets of the choice he made but if he would have chosen to leave then he would live in a world of sameness and where releasing someone is killing them (what they would’ve done with Gabriel) “I shall be telling this with a sigh” “Somewhere ages and ages hence” By making the choice he made he kind of feels sad because of the possibilities that the other choose could have granted him. Since Jonas choose to leave the community he will die in return, where he could have lived a normal

One reason why Jonas hates this community is because of the rules. If you make one small mistake, you can get in serious trouble, also known as being released (killed). “ When an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice….Needless to say, he will be released.” (pg. 13) This suggests that the rules in the society can have a major impact on someone if they make just a slight error. The fact that the person did not follow the directions well enough and got killed is appalling. These unpleasant and ridiculous rules support a dystopian novel because they show how unpleasant living in this community can be.

The final reason that I think the Giver portrays a dystopian society is their method of release. They may think that they’re sorting out good and bad, but what do they know? If they don’t know anything about love, why should they know about pain, suffering, death, and war? Everyone outside of the releasing room thought their dear friend was going Elsewhere… but the people inside that horrid room witnessed, or committed, the murder of innocents. There were no such things as identical twins; the lighter one would be killed. The people had no perception of death, for all they know that little baby, which just happened to be 3 ounces lighter than his brother, could really be going Elsewhere. Even if they’re traveling there through a garbage chute. Not only children were released though, as Jonas’ mother tells them it can happen to the middle aged too, “‘You know that there’s no third chance. The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.’” (pg.9). Some people were so ignorant on the subject that they used the word as a joke, like the speaker when the pilot flew over the town, “NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing…” (pg.2). Who wants to

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

Everyone is especially Jonas, was looking forward to get their assignments. But Jonas’s was much different than he could even expect. Every person and assignment in the community is important, but Jonas’s job is the one who holds the society together. Jonas is an important character in the story, because now he has the power to change how his world functions, or completely transform it.

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.