Perfect Places In The Giver

The book The Giver is a neat book. We all know some of us cry when reading or watching The Giver. The Giver takes place in a little society with so many rules. I mean who goes and killed babies and old people (evil). The Giver utopia or dystopia? In my opinion I think the giver is a dystopia because you will have no choices, you will go through pain and if you become a nurturer you will kill babies.

Is The Giver a utopia or a dystopia? It is a dystopia because of releases, limited choices, and the lack of knowledge. First of all, let’s start by saying that The Giver is a dystopia because of the releases or deaths that they perform. According to Document D, “To his surprise, his father began very carefully to direct the needle into the top of the new child's forehead, puncturing the place where the fragile skin pulsed. The newborn squirmed, and wailed faintly.”

Can the society in The Giver be considered an utopia or dystopia? Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver got her idea in 1992 when she went to go visit her father. She then discovered that her father was losing his memory, but her mother wasn’t. This then made Lowry questions if live would be easier if all the painful memories disappeared. Is The Giver's community an Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom, people of the community are oblivious to what is happening around them, and the Committee of Elders are abusing their power.

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia? In your opinion do you think The Giver society is a utopian or dystopian society? The author of The Giver is Lois Lowry, her inspiration to write the book was her dad. Lois’s dad had forgotten all the painful memories because he was sick and forgot all the painful memories and that made Lois wonder what a world would be like where people had all the painful memories were taken away.

Welcome to Liam’s Mind, let’s head over to the giver section! I think it’s a dystopia because the life in the givers world is not what it seems. To the people it seems perfect, amazing, nothing wrong. In reality they are not living just to live, repeat the same things over and over again. The do the same thing everyday and their ideas are screwed up from there government.

A utopian society is to be though of perfect or idealistic. The charcters in the book have no feelings, no choices, and no memories other thhan their own life. The Giver and Jonas are the only two with memories since their job is to be the holder of them and Jonas stops taking his medication to no longer interfearing with his body that gives him feelings. All others do not have any emotional attachments. The community decides all of your life’s plan. They choose your spose, your career, and you are not able to have your own children. If you want children you have to apply and a child will be given to you if you are accepted. The Giver and Jonas are the only ones with memories from the past that go back hundreds before the community was a utopian societ and other communities and how they live. The only memories the people in the community are allowed to have are their own lives but thneir lives are controlled by the committee of elders. This give the people of the community teh benefit of never feeling pain but they have no freedom which is almost as if they live in a comunity with a dictatorship.

People often wonder what it is like to live in the “perfect world”, but do they really know it consists of? The Giver runs along the lines of a utopian society or “perfect world”. With all the rules and laws that help the community run smoothly, but limit the power to do so much more. Compared to our society we have so much more room to “breath.” Society today compared to The Giver society is so different but structured in the same way our society uses it

The Community is a horrible place compared to our country. Read more to find out why. A utopia is a world or place that is perfect in every way, and a dystopia is a world or place that has major flaws and is horrible. (The Giver) is a dystopian society and that is because they kill the smallest of any one twin, also they have drugs that keep them from hitting puberty. The Community in (the Giver) and our society are similar and different because parts of the world and the Community have people that make decisions in society, and MOST of the nations do not kill twins like the Community does.

I think the giver is a utopia, because they have speakers in their house so that everyone can hear what you are saying. There is essentially no privacy in the giver because they have to share their dreams, and how their day was. For example, when they are sitting at the dinner table on page 5, there is a quote that says “who wants to be the first tonight, for feelings?” The quote shows that they talk about their feelings at the table. It doesn’t help that they can’t lie about it unless it says you can.

A true utopia requires sacrifices many people cannot condone. This fact has been shown throughout The Giver. The community decides to sacrifice many things to come to Sameness. Pain, individuality and love are among many things that they have sacrificed (Lowry 124). These sacrifices made the community Jonas lived in seemingly perfect; there is no hunger, no war, no pain, no one will ever be alone. But, a perfect community is completely unrealistic. That is why they have The Giver, the person that knows all the imperfections of the society and help the society to achieve perfection.

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear” (Tracy). In the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a community that went into sameness to make sure no one made any wrong choices so that they were all safe. In the book, they had no feelings, memory of the past, and they weren’t able to make many decisions for themselves. The article “Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith is about the country Haiti and the bad things they are going through. In this article it Haiti was going through really bad things, because of hurricane Matthew that had just been in the country.

In the book, a twelve year old boy, named Jonas, is caught in a very isolated community in which he lives in. When Jonas’s community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. Everyone in the community lives a very isolated life and can’t feel any feeling toward each other. The giver by Lois Lowry shows when Jonas is selected as The Receiver of Memory, he immediately feels the loneliness and the isolation from the rest of the community.

Imagine a world without fear, pain, war, poverty, hunger, or terror. The community in The Giver may sound like a perfect world (a utopia). However, when you read between the lines you realize that in order to achieve all of these things you have to take away some very important aspects of life such as; emotions, love, diversity, choices, and even the ability to see colours. For a community to take away all those elements of life isn’t a utopia. You’re surviving, not living, and you end up going through life without feeling anything. Just living and doing what you are told to do without a second thought. It is for these reasons that I would not want to live in The Giver’s society.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Utopia because no one is ever starving, no one really feels pain, and they can’t choose wrong. Throughout our world I have seen many people on the sides of streets having no food, no home, and no family with no one helping them to have a better life. I have also seen people helping the homeless and shelters but in this book they don’t need to do that because everybody already has a home and food. Plus they don’t have to ask for money and food, they already have it.

Would the community in The Giver be considered a utopia or dystopia? After reading the novel many people believe that it is a dystopia. A dystopia is a world where things may look right,but are far from perfect. The community in The Giver is a dystopia because of the constant surveillance,no choices,and Jonas character.