Similarities Between The Giver And Modern Society

After reading The Giver, it can be understood that our world and their community has many differences, but there are also some similarities.

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.

My first reason on why I think the giver is a dystopia because they don’t get to choose their jobs. They have ceremony every year and when you turn twelve they get assigned a job. People will get assigned a job that they might not like, but there is a chance that they could get a job they like. For example on page 60“ in a firm, commanding voice she announced, ‘Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver Of Memory”. Jonas was nervous at first about his job because the chief elder has described his job as painful and that the pain was “ indescribable.” Later he then just wants to be a regular child instead of being the Reciever.

“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.

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

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.

First, The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom. I know this because in the Document E it says, “Oh,” Jonas was silent for a minute. “Oh, I

The Giver is a 2014 film directed by Phillip Noyce. The film is solely based on a novel with the same name by Lois Lowry. It talks about a teen, Jonas, living in a society where none of them is different. Each individual in their society is equal. Labels like popular, losers, winners, and as such does not exist within their society. They have created the new definition of fairness.

“Your self-worth is determined by you, you don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are”- quoted by the singer beyoncé.

Have you ever thought about different societies around the world? Some are Utopian and Dystopian. Being in America we are spoiled by our freedom. There are many places in the world that don’t have as much freedom as we do. There are many differences and similarities between our society and other societies.

However, the society in The Giver, which has limited choices and feelings for all its citizens, is an improvement from the ours in 2015. In the novel, the concept of death is not present. It is much more

The book I chose to read was The Giver. One of the differences in their culture compared to mine is the clothing. In their culture, if you are a girl below the age of nine, you have to wear ribbons in your hair all day(51). In my culture, you could have your hair however you want it to be. Another example of difference in clothing is that for their culture, when you’re at a certain age, you get different jackets to help you with independence and interdependence(52). For my culture, you could pick out whatever jacket you want, and either you could do it or someone would help you. The last example in the difference in clothing is that in their culture they wear tunics, unless they are at a volunteering place, than they have to wear the volunteering smock(37). In my culture, you could wear whatever you want, unless your parents do not let you.

The Giver and our society are very different in my ways but alike in some ways. The novel has a government just like modern society with rules and laws. Mother confessed “I feel frightened, too, for him...you know that there are no third chances”(Lowry 9). Just like our society we have punishments

In the book The Giver everything is the same, everyone has two assigned kids, everyone has to wear colorless cloths, and they don’t celebrate birthdays and Christmas. All of it is from their most important law “sameness”. But in a modern day society we don’t have sameness and we have choices in our life.

A community would only reach its full potential if every single person acted like a robot, lacking emotion, obeying orders, using precise language, and ultimately making no mistakes. In human nature, mistakes are made, but those wrong decisions can cause major conflict. Fortunately, the community in the Giver has created a society that revolves over “sameness.” Sameness is the government's way of taking complete control over everyone and everything. The government made that decision to bring peace to the community. After being selected as the “receiver of memory,” Jonas discovered how much was taken from the community. Sacrificing himself for everyone else, he made his way to the boundary of memory, releasing all memories hidden from