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. Another main reason why I think the giver is a utopia is that everyone when they are a 9, so everyone equally gets a bike at a certain age. On page 13, while they were talking about the ceremony, it says the children all received their bicycles
A New Start A “The Giver” Fanfiction ©️ Lois Lowry- Owner of all rights to original book. No profit will be made from this work Using his final strength and a special knowledge that was deep inside him, Jonas found the sled that was waiting for them at the top of the hill. Numbly his hand fumbled for the rope. He settled himself on the sled and hugged Gabe close.
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.”
We live in a world full of rules that apply to everyone, but not everybody follows them. Do you think that by attempting to restrict our society that we are pushing into a utopia? A utopia is a world in which life is perfect without flaws but there are also times when perfection is masked chaos also known as a dystopia. One reason that “The Giver” is more restrictive than “Harrison Bergeron” is that the people in the community are given an occupation.
A utopian society is supposed to be flawless, but in 'The Giver,' that's not the case. Everyone is identical, and there is no difference. Being different is what makes each of us special and unique. In 'The Giver,' after Jonas has experience the memories he had experience diversity, life another way of looking at things.
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
Imagine not being able to choose freely, to not be able to pick what color shirt you want to wear in the morning. Well in Lois Lowry’s The Giver people don’t have the right to choose what shirt or pair of pants they want to wear. They have no rights, no power, and no freedom. The committee of elders in the community have taken everything away from them to have a “utopian” society.
In this story a young boy named Jonas becomes the next receiver within his utopian society. The Giver takes place in a society with the government having a totalitarianistic approach to life where the Committee of Elders is in control. The society is like a heaven on earth; referring to the Garden of Eden from the religious perspective. At first look, The Giver is displayed as the perfect utopian society upon further inspection it is identified as rather a dystopian
Utopia, is it as great as we think? With utopia freedoms and choices are lost even if the idea is good in theory. In the Giver the society dims emotions and takes away color to keep every one the same. It also takes away uniqueness. It also happens in “Harrison Bergeron”.
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.
"It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to the Sameness.” (84) The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is from the perspective of a twelve year old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopia. At the Ceremony of Twelve, where every person that turns twelve receives their life-long “job”, Jonas finds out he has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory, the most honored of elders. The current Receiver of memory, who Jonas calls the Giver, transfers memories of color and feelings like pain and joy to him. As he receives each memory, he learns of a life outside of the utopia. This book proves that being perfect and the same as everyone else is not as great as it sounds. The Utopian society of sameness in
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.
In my class,we have been reading The Giver . We have been told to think of what kind of world this is. A dystopia or An utopia. An utopia is a perfect society, and A dystopia is a place like our world. The community in The Giver is a utopia, because it is a “perfect place”,it has sameness,and no individuality.
After More wrote Utopia, many more fictional stories were composed as a result, all seeking to investigate the theory of creating an actual utopia. For instance, The Giver is a novel about a utopian society. As the story progresses, the dystopian aspects of the society are revealed to the audience as well as the main character. He then rebels against the leaders of his community in order to bring to light the secrets they have buried. A reporter describes the dystopian aspects as “the destruction of what it is that makes us human by the suppression of diversity, the oppression of personhood, and teaching the lie that we will be happy if we are all the same”.