Society In The Giver

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.

“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.

Imagine waking up one day, and all your choices are stripped away from you. You can no longer choice blue or red, up or down, one or two. Everything has been picked out for you whether you like it or not. The community in the Giver is a utopian society. All members have a clear-cut set of rules they must follow. The rules were made to get rid of pain and fix society’s problems. On the occasion of when the truth is revealed Jonas, a unique boy, questions society, and its motives. Personal choice is one of the most important things, even in the event that it may cause pain or suffering. Individuals within the community should have a right to pick their spouse, have their own children, and pick their careers.

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.

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 setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

In The Giver the authorities aim at achieving “Sameness” which means all people must be equal and the same. Lois Lowry describes a world of “sameness” where the lack of differences allows all members of the community to have predetermined roles and to follow an enforced set of rules. The Elders depict sameness in a way that makes it sound absolutely necessary, and without it, the whole world may fall apart. In the community of The Giver people accept everything as it is because they do not know any difference: “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time … we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference” (Lowry, Giver 95). This sameness is terrifying and further imposes conformity on all people. So the community of The Giver is a uniformed society. People wear the same clothes; eat the same food; their houses are the same; and most of them look the same as well. By the age of ten, they all have the same short hair style: “females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair took on the more manly style which exposed their ears” (Lowry, Giver 46). In The Giver the purpose of sameness is to protect people from wrong choices and to achieve safety for them.

The Giver is written from Jonas’s confusion, excitement, glory, and discoveries. Jonas is a twelve-year-old boy living in a futuristic civilization that has eliminated all pain, fear, love, and free will. There is no chauvinism, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there are no “important” choices to be made, also, everyone is consistently polite. The “perfect” society Jonas lives in has also abolished choice: At age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for compatible spouses, who are assigned to them based on interests and jobs and each couple is allowed to receive exactly two children each. (Notice that I said receive, not give birth to.) In addition to that, spouses don’t show any signs of love or affection, just the word love, even when pointed at their children, makes them burst in laughter and explanations! Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are “released”. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient and pleasant as possible, or so they think.

“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.

What if in our world we were all lied too, just so you could be protected by the awful memories and events that occurred in the past? Well, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist Jonas lives in a life full of lies. The most important differences between utopian society in The Giver and dystopian society are families, ceremonies, and release.

In “The Giver,” there are many utopian aspects, but one of the most influential is the aspects of family and how they’re put together. Some evidence of this can be found in this quote. “Two children-one male and one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules (Lowry, 8).” This quote shows how people don’t have choice in how their families are laid out.

The book the Giver by Lois Lowery is told in 3rd person limited. The setting takes place in a futuristic society in several communities and in a utopian/ dystopian world. These communities are ruled by the Elders which are like the community. Somehow everything is controlled in the community, for instance, their jobs, and the weather. The people in the world are really strange because they can not see color, does not know any types of music, nor knows about death.

Societal rules were established with the intention of helping us as a community. This is true in our current, “real” society as well as the community within the novel, “The Giver.” The difference is that in, The Giver, societal rules overtook individual thought completely, whereas, in modern day, real life society, societal rules are not supposed to completely overtake individual thought. Many times, people follow society’s rules because they fear being punished. This is true in the novel as well as in life at the moment. There are many scientific studies to prove this theory in current society. In The Giver, the entire community was built and sustained around the idea of maintaining balance and harmony ----- and avoiding punishment, by following

When first beginning to read the novel The Giver the reader may think these people are in a perfect or “utopian” society, but in actuality they are in a fake world run by people called Elders who want to keep constant control, and go to no limits as they control who people marry and if they are allowed a child or not. The word death has no meaning to the people they are leading, they simply believe that people are “released,” The story starts off as a boy named Jonas, he is a normal kid, near age 12, really nothing more to him than that. In This perfect society everyone is exactly the same.

When first beginning to read the novel the reader may think this might be a story that the community seemed to be common place to stay, but in actuality it was a significant novel explaining the real concept of how you are not always informed with the truth by your community, state or even your government. The secret information that is kept from the citizens in this community is only in the hands of the Giver and the new Receiver, that is permitted to lie to anyone to keep the truth away from them. The citizens in the community do not truly know what happens during a release, except for the Nurturers that take care of the newborns and infants and the others who are in control of the releases. The community is not educated with certain words,