Nothing Is Perfect In The Giver's Society

The world in The Giver is not perfect because nothing can really be perfect. It is almost impossible to think of a perfect world, and if you do there will always be a flaw in one way or another to someone. The world can never truly satisfy the needs of everyone. As Hannah Montana once said, “Nobody’s perfect”, I guess she was talking about

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

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?

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?

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

Anytime a utopia is attempted, a dystopia is going to occur. The rules, families, and leaders are very different in our society than in Jonas’s society. The rules in our society are very laid back as long as your good. In the society we live in we can’t steal or murder.

The book ¨The Giver¨ by Lois Lowry takes place in a utopian type world and is about a boy name Jones who is chosen for a job that only one person gets every couple of years and in this job he he is not able to talk to anybody about it. In the book Jones gets chosen for the job of the receiver of memories and in his job he has to take memories that only the giver and him are allowed to know about and the rest of the community is clueless about. When he starts to get these memories he becomes very curious about starts to test things in his community like not take his daily injection that stops the community from having feeling and from being able to see color. Jones in the book begins to become curious and wonder if what the community leaders

Through all of the research done, it is clearly apparent that even if this “utopian” society seems perfect, it is anything but. This is why modern society is preferable, to the majority, than to Jonas´s society, due to the human connection and individuality factor that today´s society greatly encourages and hopes to thrive in the

In our modern world, many would classify this current generation as disappointing and sometimes even, pathetic. We often categorize ourself as greed, trying to take more than we need. Many believe that our society is corrupted and can not be fixed although some sit back and just watch, much like, in both the book and the film. In 'The Giver', the elders gave an appearance of a perfect society with no violence, no problems and no pain but hid valuable information to many. They simply dismissed all of their wrong-doings for the better of their perfect world which in many cases is exactly like real life. In our modern day, we are not exactly openly given information about the world unless it is discovered by someone else. We are given

Doesn’t Everyone wish that they could live in a perfect world? Well that is the kind of world that Jonas has to live in everyday, and it might not be as easy as it seems. Learn how Jonas survives in this so called “perfect” society in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In my personally opinion, I would rate this book a 9, this is because it has a lot of detail and it keeps you interested in what I happening to the characters the whole time. Thus making you want to continue to read and learn more. Jonas is just a normal kid, living life as any twelve year old kid would, although during what should have been the happiest time of his life, soon turns into the scariest day of his life. Jonas is chosen to be the new receiver in his “perfect” society. For his job he is given a set of

The similarities and the differences between The Giver’s society and our modern day society. The similarities are that both societies have families and a somewhat birthdays. In The Giver’s society,families are done differently the we do in ours society. In Their society Birthmoms don’t keep their baby, but the baby goes to a different family. Families can only have one mom, one dad, one boy and one girl.

Lois Lowry’s, The Giver is a unique perspective that is highly regulated to fit the idea of a “utopian” society. This society allows the government (also known as the Committee of Elders) to take ultimate control, deciding which humans should be “elsewhere” and which children are appointed to each “Assignment” .In this world humans become older, moving through stages and achieving new responsibilities at each stage. At the Ceremony of Twelve, adolescents are appointed their “Assignments”. When Jonas becomes old enough to be assigned his position in the society, he is told that he will be given unique training to become the next “Receiver”.

In the book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, there’s a young boy named Jonas who lives in what is seen as a utopia by all of the members of the community. Well, all except one in the beginning. In the beginning everyday is practically the same: Jonas would wake up, go to school, do his required volunteer hours, go home to his family unit, at dinner eat; share their feelings and dreams, and then go to bed, and the next day repeat that routine. In this utopia there aren’t any cars, rain, snow, sunlight, hills, feelings, or color. It’s a utopia in the sense that nobody knows what they’re missing in life, and what life actually is.

Societal rules were established with the intention of helping us as a community. This is true in our current, “real” society as well as the community within the novel, “The Giver.” The difference is that in, The Giver, societal rules overtook individual thought completely, whereas, in modern day, real life society, societal rules are not supposed to completely overtake individual thought. Many times, people follow society’s rules because they fear being punished. This is true in the novel as well as in life at the moment. There are many scientific studies to prove this theory in current society. In The Giver, the entire community was built and sustained around the idea of maintaining balance and harmony ----- and avoiding punishment, by following

Would you like to live in a dystopian society or a utopian society like the novel “The Giver”? In the giver it is set to be a perfect society or a society where everything is the same. It is different from our society by there is birthdays that are celebrated in a party unlike the book “The Giver” they celebrate their birthdays in a very different ways. Our government is very different to. There family is very different too.