Society In The Giver

“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen” (Lowry 103). Imagine a world with no control over who you marry, what your job is, what you wear, or what you get to eat for every meal. This is what it’s like in The Giver by Lois Lowry. The people live in a community that is severely more controlled than ours. We have the freedom to have a pet, have as many kids as you want, and say what you want. The people in The Giver do not have those freedoms. The people in the community don’t even know what love is. In our world love is each individual’s choice, but not in The Giver. In other words, they don’t get to experience the precious parts of life, such has having a wedding and giving birth to your child. No society is perfect, but citizens of every community have an

(AGG) Sometimes all you need to do is break away to find the truth. (BS-1) Jonas always followed the rules until he started to notice small issues.(BS-2) Jonas starts to receive memories and he begins to turn against the society.

Could you imagine your world in which everything was predetermined for you, and you didn’t have a choice? This is the reality in The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas faces these problems and many others as he completes his adventure. Although some may think this to be devastating, this is normal in his society. In the dystopian society conveyed in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there are many similarities and differences to our modern day societies.

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.

I would not want to live in this society because they want everyone to be the same and not make mistakes.Jonas stated,”We don’t dare to let people make choices of their own.” (Lowry 93)This is one of the reasons I don’t want to live in The Giver’s society because I like to make my own choices. They also stated,” “They chose their own jobs? “ “Frightening isn’t it?” The Giver said.” ( Lowry 93)

There are three words that are used for a tool for social control in The Giver. These three words are used in their community that promote or conceal the words we have that now in the community. Those three words are assignment, comfort object, and newchild. An assignment is given to you, and you can’t go without an assignment in Jonas’s community. A comfort object is given to all newchildren in their community, but taken away when they become older, and a newchild is what we call as a newborn. These three words are different than what we would call them, but their meanings are similar.

In the novel The Giver, based on the paragraphs we already read, we can already get the main picture that the book portrayed the community as a society that plans out how someone’s life is going to start and end and what they will do as a profession and when they will do it. There are good reasons to argue about assigning a job for everyone based on what they already excel on and what they are good at because many people wouldn’t prefer getting a chosen job that suits them for their strengths and weaknesses.

The Giver’s society is similar to our modern-day world, due to both societies striving for equality. In Jonas’s community, everybody lives an average life, where everybody is similar in

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas sees his community as the perfect place, but is it really? This essay the author will explain how Jonas live is a dystopic society. One reason this community is not perfect, is because they don’t have feelings or don’t understand them that well. In the story Jonas received a memory of love, he realized what love is, and he also realized that he loved Fiona, Asher, Mom, Dad, Lily, and The Giver. The problem was that when Jonas went home afterward he asked his parents if they loved him, they replied with “we enjoy you” or “ we are proud of your accomplishment” they said that love was a meaningless word.

Imagine a society with no pain, no worry. A perfect place. That would be the opposite of modern day society right? There's no freedom, no happiness, no love. There are very little similarities between the society in the Giver and modern day society.

Man and woman, night and day, and the sun and the moon are all alike in some ways, yet different in many others. The dystopian society of the The Giver and modern day society are the same way. While The Giver and modern day society do have some similarities, they also have many differences. While reading The Giver there was not much to find that compared to modern day society, however in the story it was very noticeable that the citizens in the society of The Giver view their elders with a higher respect and acknowledge their wisdom just as we do in our society today. Jonas’ mother is one of the many citizens who believes that the elders “ have probably the most important job in the community” (Lowry 35) because the elders advise them when

Is the community of the giver a dystopia, or a utopia? In the far future a “perfect” community exists in the middle of nowhere where the people have no memory of the past and no one sees color. A dystopia is a dark, dysfunctional place, while a utopia is a perfect place, which one should we use to describe the community in the book, “The GIver”. We believe that the community has proven to be a dystopia, because they have not saved people from death, they kill anyone who wishes to leave and the residents have no memories of the past. One dark, hidden secret of the community is that they have not been able to erase death, they simply hide it behind a new name, called “release”.

If you lived in a society where you aren't able to control your life, how would you feel? If you were told by someone what your job is going to be for the rest of your life or even when you could start riding a bike, would you truly be happy? Well, in the novel The Giver this is exactly the kind of society Jonas lives in. Some people may claim their society is perfect, but in reality, it's far from it. These citizens hardly have any freedom which causes many problems to arise.

The community in the book “The Giver” is a dystopian society. They kill the people and babies that get “released”. Jonas figures out what “ release” is when is father uses lethal injection to “release” a baby. Also, the people in the community get their feelings taking away using a pill. After a learning session with The Giver, Jonas figures out what the feeling love is.

The Giver is a novel set in a special society which is deprived of any differentiation. In this society, there is a special event called the “Ceremony of Twelve” and it's a time when the twelve-year-olds residing in this community are assigned a job. The main character of this story is a twelve-year-old kid named Jonas who was special because he gets assigned the job of a receiver. As a receiver, Jonas is allowed to obtain various amount of memories that everyone else in the society is oblivious to. The receiver before him, now called The Giver, mentors Jonas and transfers the memories he has into Jonas. At first it was pleasant for Jonas, he was able to experience the coldness of snow, a birthday, and so much more. But eventually, he was given horrific memories that changed his view upon this society that he has lived in for about twelve years. So The Giver and Jonas conceives a plan for Jonas to escape from the community so that the memories Jonas received can go back to the citizens. This novel mostly fits into the fantasy genre because of the whole perfect society theme. At the beginning,