Should The Giver Be Considered A Dystopia

The Giver is a world renowned book but a large portion people do not know of it’s impact on dystopian literature. The Giver was written in 1993 and won the John Newbery prize. The story itself is about a boy named Jonas living in a dystopian society. The Giver is impacting the genre of dystopias by igniting the rise of Dystopian novels. The Giver achieved this with it’s appeal and popularity. Evidence proving these facts are the dystopian novels publicated after The Giver. The appeal of The Giver contributed to the impact on dystopian literature greatly.

“We don't dare to let people to make choices of their own.”In The Giver they decided things like their jobs,spouses,and children, whereas in our society we decided these things on own.The society in The Giver has many differences and few similarities with modern day society.

Accordingly to the community in The Giver, citizens have lost their diversity which prevents being same.Riding the same bikes,wearing the same clothes,and speaking the same language,even the same words, can’t be acceptable for our world.In this community,no one has a private life,no one has a right to lie,and even all the doors are unlocked except The Giver’s door.In the beginning of the novel,the reader influences about the perfection of the community,but throughout the story,Lowry shows that the community which is based on Perfection is not perfect at all.Actually,it’s a community which is based on strict rules just to prevent people from feelings,colors,and all the values which a human must have tasted at least once during their life times.Diversity is a very important value for humans,and a community can’t be perfect without it.

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

Would you rather live in a world that has conditions which are considered perfect, or live in a world that is frightening or undesirable? What about the first option with a twist, you won’t have to have feelings that cause angst and pain in the long run. The answer is pretty clear. The first choice is what you likely went with. That choice would be considered a Utopia the second a Dystopia. Utopia’s have good family values, a wonderful education, and property/economic standards, all of which can be found in the book The Giver. Therefore because of that, The Giver in my eyes, can be described as a true Utopia.

The community has created a utopian world by choosing who would live best with each other and they have even set up a whole family for you. The community in The Giver is perfect because there is nothing that can harm you and you don’t need to worry about things like what colour would go best with a dress or a pair of jeans because there is no colour and you don’t have to choose the clothes you wear because all of that is chosen for you. The community in the giver has taken away most of the pain you could experience in the different communities so nine out of ten times you will not get hurt or injured because you can’t really feel pain along with love and many other feelings. The community has created a safe place so there is no real chance to get hurt, there are no distractions from things like the sun or from bright colours and the sun can’t reflect off of a shiny object to make you fall off of your bike or to crash because there is no sun, since they have age limits on things like bikes, they make sure you are ready so you cannot fall off of a bike to get

Lois Lowry’s The Giver paints a community that only permits perfection. The community manipulates the people into submission for generations, ensuring there will only be trained people who do not know warfare, starvation, or pain. The community’s concept of “sameness” creates sheltered people that do not have some things the people in reality need. Lois Lowry shows readers how the concept of “sameness” disregards free choice, relationships with others, and personal experiences.

The theme the author seems to be attempting to convey through the story is that "Individuals should be cherished". The book shows that while unification can result in a peaceful and an altogether more understanding community, it can also restrict individuality. Individuality and order cannot be separated and are deeply tied together. Without unique attributes that make each person diverse from anyone else, a plain and almost boring society is formed. With everyone following regulations and laws, people have the same opinions and thoughts as their neighbors. This would result in a setting like that of The Giver's. With no different thoughts, citizens of such a population would eventually grow blind to events like Release. Alternately, having

Although The Giver was written and published in the early 1990’s, the book portrays many social, political, and cultural issues that were thriving at the time of its creation. Lowry's novel was written in light of events around the world including abortion and medical assisted suicide. The community in The Giver was set to be a utopian society with no hunger, suffering, or war, but also no color, music, or love. What also comes with this society is little to no privacy, even “private” houses have two-way intercoms which can be used to listen in for breaking the rules. In this way, The Giver is part of the tradition of dystopian novels.

The community in The Giver is an example of a dystopia because it has the appearance of perfection, but on the inside, it is the opposite. Evidence that describes the society being an illusion is people getting killed for being born as a twin, or making a mistake. The society doesn't

The community of The Giver is a dystopia. It is a dystopia because you don’t get to make the choices you want. You don’t get to decide how many children you have. You also have to share a dream called the stirrings. Another thing you have to do is when you turn twelve you have to go to the Ceremony Of Twelve.

In society today, people are allowed to pick their own jobs, spouse, cloths, and more, but in the book, The Giver, you are not allowed to chose. The Giver uses dystopian society which is a society that the government controls everything and that society chooses for citizens. This means that citizens are not allowed to chose any of those things and have to deal with what the government gives them.

The Giver by Lois Lowry revolves over the same idea as the lottery. Both dystopian stories show help people Force themselves in a tradition without seeking for a change in order to interfere with negative consequences. The lottery sets place in a village where the lucky winner of the contest is stoned to death. Instead of questioning their practices, individuals within each Community lead their people with fear

The Giver is a fiction novel written by the author Lois Lowry which is about a utopian society which later turns out to be a dystopian society because of the lack of freedom in decisions and emotions. In The Giver Jonas is the new receiver, meaning he is the new holder of memories he is one of the only two people that have feelings. He always followed the community's rules as well as agreed with what they did until he made the decision of asking the Giver for what his father does when he releases babies. The decision which involved Jonas watching a video of his father killing the weaker twin, when his father had told him that what happens is that the weaker twin gets taken elsewhere when they are released. Therefore, when Jonas found out the

The book The Giver is a dystopia. It is a dystopia because the people who are in the community think that their world is perfect. However, what they don't know is that they are living like prisoners. The book The Giver is also a dystopia because they have lack of knowledge, no freedom, and strong responsibilities.