Similarities Between The Giver And Modern Day Society

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

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

In our world, we can decided what we wear like and how we act. Some of us have long hair, others have short, and a portion of us have none at all. Other physical features may be eye color, hair color, height, or weight. Internal differences may be likes and dislikes; the people in Jonas’ community are just the opposite. They follow a strict set of rules and cannot see or realize any differences. This sameness has been enforced by the Committee of Elders for a while. It is like they live in a one-way mirror; but Jonas can see differences and so can the Giver. They can see color while others just see shades of gray. They can see how the community has changed and how it is being controlled. So this one-way mirror has a secret second side and Jonas can now see through it. This begins to get frusterating to Jonas because he is confused about his

In today’s society there are many authors who write dystopian novels. They write these novels to give knowledge and to tell how our world is very different from dystopian life. Lois Lowry shows readers how people can suffer in dystopian society. In The Giver, Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but in reality it is a dystopia because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom, dehumanization, and their strict regulations.

The story is about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a community where everything is perfect, everything is the same and no one is allowed to brake the rules imposed by the Elders. The Elders are in charge of creating all the rules and basically ruled everyone’s lives.

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

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.

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.

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.

How would it feel if this world didn’t let people have choices, didn’t let people share, or if they didn’t let people celebrate birthdays, holidays, or just celebrate anything? Well that’s what it was like for Jonas in The Giver. Jonas lives in the future in a community where The Giver is the only one who knows everything, but soon all that changed for Jonas. He became the the community 's new Receiver of Memory, and soon Jonas learns the terrible secrets of this “utopian” community. Later on as he learns some more about the community’s secrets he makes a plan to leave the community, and to take Gabe with him so he wouldn’t get released.(which means they die, but the community doesn’t understand that) In this book choices, sharing, and celebrations would have made The Giver community more positive.

This is an example of ‘Socially Expected Behavior’ which is conformity. The negative effects this has on Jonas’s society is that if you do not follow these rules you will come out as weird and be left out of the community, also it can create division between those who don’t really “fit in”. This example highlights Lowry’s warning by informing us that being the same might be boring. If we were all the same in social matters, things would eventually have no meaning to speak about. In my opinion it is good to be socially different because you’ll be surrounded by people who are socially different

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

The biggest theme in The Giver is “Originality is important.” Everyone in the story is the same except Jonas and the Giver. Jonas and the Giver are original; they are different from everyone else. Jonas is learning qualities and the fun of life while everyone else has to be the same.Jonas’s friends, Asher and Fiona, are learning their place in the world. Asher had originality when he was a child, but as he grew older he started to conform to the rules of the community. Fiona tried to conform to the rules of the community, but Jonas showed her how to have fun and how to learn to love. No one gets to celebrate a birthday on the day that they were born. No one is taken care of by a biological family. Everyone is assigned to family units and the people in these units have no relation to one another. There is also a ceremony of release where people get lethal injections. Everyone has a specific job in the community. The people in Jonas’s community are missing out on important parts of life because they do not have originality.

Jonas society is different from ours because no one is different but if they were they would probably get released . Also in Jonas society they dont choose their spouse but modern day you can choose your spouse and have children . In Jonas world the live by worlds that goes for everyone . Everything is planned in Jonas world modern day we either have to find out whats going to happen or predict it . If you do something wrong in Jonas world your going to get released but modern day society you have plenty chances .

I want to know more about the society Jonas lived in before becoming the Receiver. In the book, Jonas lives in a future society, in which all problems have been solved but at a cost. For example, no war, no crime, and no hunger exists inside the walls, but to stop these, many freedoms have been taken away. People are assigned jobs according to skills, and husbands and wives according to personality. Starvation is nonexistent, but to do so, climate was modified for ideal temperatures and weather to grow crops so people inside the walls have never seen snow or a rainbow. People are injected to not feel strong emotions, see color or fall in love because these have been deemed distractions. When Jonas reaches the age to stop school and join the