The Dystopian And Utopian Society

In the community everyone wears the same clothes and has the same house so nothing ever looks different from the others. It is all even and fair and beautiful. Or so Jonas thought. Until Jonas received the memories of flowers in a meadow or of a boat on the sea he didn't really know what beauty is because he hasn't ever known what ugliness is. All of the people that Jonas has ever known have been kind and peaceful, always apologizing when a mistake is made.

Imagine living in world where there are no feelings, color, or pain, and everyone is the same besides you. Jonas realized he was living in a world without color, pain, or feelings. Without color, pain, and feeling Jonas wasn’t able to express true happiness, and he therefore left the community. “Lois Lowry’s childhood escapades inspired her books,”(Dellinger). Also Lois loved photography and it resulted in the cover of The Giver, which is a photo of a blind painter. This connects to the book because no one can see in color besides the giver and the receiver, which is Jonas. Lois Lowry uses the literary elements foreshadowing, symbolism, and imagery to express the theme that one cannot have happiness without pain, in the book The Giver.

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

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.

Jonas wanted to live a different life. In his journey, Jonas travels with Gabriel, the child that was being nurtured by his family. He needed to saved him from being “released”. Together they faced danger and fear but it was just the beginning of a new life in the land of Elsewhere.

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

The author Lois Lowry grew up all around the world when she was a child due to her dad being in the U.S. Army. Since father was a dentist in the army and traveled the world she had gone to many countries which inspired her writing. At one point she had lived in Tokyo where she went to an American school on the base during her junior high years. One of her literary works later in her life is, The Giver, which had won a Newbery Award. In The Giver, the setting is a utopian society where the characters have no feelings, no memories, and no choices that they are able to make on their own. The names of the characters also have hidden meanings and relations behind them using allusion to recreate a religous matter along with how the novel

World of Perfection Utopian societies are an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. This shows the reader fictional equality between all a life that has progressed past the errors of humanity. Utopias in literature are what inspire people to do something greater, but to a certain extent because they also create fear of no creativity whatsoever. Making people curious of what the future holds for the world. The word utopia is interpreted in multiple ways, but they tend to all end with one thing, peace between all of humanity.

As time goes on, attempts at a utopian society have failed and that means that not only have utopias been created but that dystopias have arrised. Each one is set and planned to be a utopia that only ends up taking another course and turning into a dystopian society. Utopia simply means “an ideal place or state”, where as a dystopia is the opposite (“utopia”). Dystopias is “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (“dystopia”). Utopias usually end up becoming dystopias because everyone has their own vision of what they want their “perfect” place to be. Somebody’s perfect form of life is different than another person’s form or vision. A utopia is supposed to accommodate to everyone in the

In The Giver, Lois Lowry utilizes tone, shift, and imagery to depict the giver’s self-destruction and suffering for the greater good of the community. The elders dismiss his advice as a feeble grab for power because they lack the experience they need to recognize the bleak future they will face without changing their actions. The complacency they show when confronted with this dismal truth only furthers the givers need to release the memories to Jonas who can in turn release them to the community.

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry I think the author is trying to tell the reader about Choices, Memories, and what your limits are in your everyday life compared to some of the characters in the Giver. Themes. These are very important in this novel. Things are very different in this society. Different from our world.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

In the inception of the novel, Jonas is accustomed to the traditions of his family and all of the families in his society. Jonas, his parents, and his sister, Lily, convey their dreams to one another each morning. The sharing of community members’ dreams and additional customs are established by the Council of Elders. In addition, the community leaders hold information and memories from the members of the community: love, hate, war, and hunger. Thus, Jonas is a naive boy, who has no knowledge on the community's history or its present state.

At the beginning of the novel Jonas does not know the truth about how his community works and he is happy. The text states “This morning we celebrated the release of

Society likes books and movies around the idea of Utopian and dystonia societies because of the what if’s and seeing the consequences that follow along. Generally these books and movies are near or kinda far future, which is what most people seem to be intrigued and interested in. In the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “Divergent” By Veronica Roth, someone ends up rebelling against the society's government. With a character being rebellious that creates suspense and what if’s, having people on the edge of their seats as to what's going to happen next. The idea surrounding books and movies with Utopian and dystonia societies is very popular because people like the idea of something but want to know the turn of events on how it