The Giver A Dystopia

To me a utopia cannot be achieved, a utopia would be “perfect world” where everyone is satisfied. A dystopia can be very far from perfect, as it is in The Giver. The world in The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopia because no world anywhere can ever be perfect, the people who live there will never be truly happy and because without choice life can be very boring, as it is in The Giver.

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

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic, dichotomous society, one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world, the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia, but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved, they choose to perpetuate the deception, allowing the community, as a whole, to continue on blissful ignorance. When young Jonas is confronted with all the truths of the present and all the memories of the past, he must choose for himself

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.

Dystopia. A place where everything is imperfect and unpleasant.That's exactly where the main character of the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, lives. Jonas grows up in a locked community. There is no freedom and the rules are completely insane. Since Jonas is the Receiver Of Memory, he can notice how badly the residents of the community are getting treated. In the book The Giver, the world is a plain dystopia. From extremely strict rules to life of sameness, Jonas lives life through it all.

The Giver strives to be a utopian society but the still can’t be perfect. The Giver is a book with the main character being Jonas, Jonas has no last name; however, no one else had the last name in their society. The Giver is a Dystopian because they get their memories erased, they are all equal, and they get assigned jobs when they are 12.

In Jonas’s world their community is a dystopian society. Their community is a dystopia because the citizens have no choices, the society is in “Sameness”, and the people who run the community make all the decisions.

Dystopia. Dys·to·pi·a /disˈtōpēə/ noun An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

Would the community in THE GIVER be considerd a dystopia or utopia? Many people would choose dystopia because it is a community of samnes. They would also choose it as a utpia because it is a community of samness.They would also choose it a dystopia because they choose your spouse and kids.Second they erase there a memory and last but not least sameness no one knows love or pain is .They cant understand why jonas gets upset when they were playing the war game.choosing there spouse is a dystopia because you only get two kids and and you get assighned your husband.The thing were they erased there memories is a real crazy way to make sameness. What this means is that they dont know if they have beem loved or not. This is also a hard way for

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’s dystopian society one does not get to birth to his or her own baby. For example, one has his or her children given to them as this quote from the giver explains, “He remembered the day they received Lily” (14). This shows that in the Givers society one get’s his or her child handed to them. Meanwhile, in a modern society one gives birth to his or her own child. For a reference one may go to a hospital and give birth to a baby. This reveals that in a modern day society one gets the chance to give birth to their own child. In addition, In both societies, one can have a spouse. For example people one can sign up for a wife In the Giver “ You will be able to apply for a spouse” (128). As one can see from this one can get a wife

There are many different ways that a society can be labeled as a dystopia. For example, a country’s government is capable of enforcing a caste system on the country, which restricts the ability for citizens to embrace individuality as it could be a potential threat to society. When a government implements these kinds of restrictions on the public, the people believe that their government's decisions are for their best interests. Caste systems are a common theme portrayed in many written works. In these stories, the protagonist typically discovers and decides that the society in which they are living needs to be changed in order to embrace individuality and freedom.

|Caiden Herring| |Nov. 28, 2016| |1st hour| While All societies can't be perfect, the giver is beyond not perfect. The Giver is the definition of a dystopia. If you think about it really, is there such thing as a utopia? Or is it just a dystopia? Think if you were in the society Jonas lives in, how would you respond to the government's way of keeping the society safe?

“An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.” This may sound like some third world country or a place torn apart by war, but in reality this is exactly the dystopian community found in The Giver. I take this position for three reasons, lack of freedom, lack of privacy, and the total amount of control the government in The Giver holds over its people. Time after time it is demonstrated that while on the surface the community may seem to be a perfect utopia, as it was intended to be, but instead it failed. By trying to change what was wrong with humanity they eliminated the rest.

The world in any society has two sides, Utopia which is defined as the perfect world and the peaceful life that is free from disasters. This word " Utopia " is derived from Greek roots by Sir Thomas More which means "a good place" (More 37). Merriam Webster defined Utopia as "an imaginary place, all life aspects are perfect, as the world suffers from nothing" (Webster 19). while Dystopia is defined as an imagined universe in which the unequal society controls the fancy of an ideal society which are maintained through technological, moral, corporate or totalitarian control " Beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds but we still have the power to change our own" (Condie 75). in which the genre challenges utopia’s