The Giver: A Dystopian 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 Giver by Lois Lowry is about a utopian society where there are rules for basically everything that people do. However, after reading the book, I realized that the community truly is not a utopian society but rather a dystopian society. The reasons why the seemingly utopian society is actually a dystopia is because there is no evidence of love, no colors, and the process of eliminating community members is harsh.

The Different Depictions of Dystopian Literature “The Giver” by Lois Lowery is about how a young boy named Jonas lives in a utopian society where everyone’s job is important and contributes to the perfect community. Jonas has finally reached the stage in his life when he is given his assignment that shall better the community, except he is chosen to be the next Receiver of Memory. The current Receiver gifts Jonas with memories for the far distant past. Jonas’s job also requires him to assist the Elders with decisions if an idea may not be best for the community, because one can repeat or learn from the past (Lowery). In the dystopian novel, “The Giver” has a film a 2014 adaptation which will be compared and contrasted to the novel such as

Two Become One “Dystopia contains a little utopia, and every utopia contains a little dystopia. It’s very true”, a thought by Margaret Atwood, a canadian novelist, stating that in every society, utopian and dystopian qualities are seen. Margaret brings to account the controversy of how our world is a dystopia and utopia. There is always an illusion of a utopia and dystopia in the world, without those illusions the world would not contain the beauty it is today. In both societies there are similar and different aspects to a dystopia and utopian world at the cause of suicide, and the abundance of individuality.

The Dystopian Society Does the book The Giver by Lois Lowry sound familiar? This story is about a society that enforces many strict rules based on the traces of what happened before the rules even existed. Another reason strict rules apply in the community is because they prefer to be utopian. However, the society in the Giver is dystopian because they release new born children for no reason, they erase all memories, and rules are secretly broken.

What is life without emotion? How does a life in a dystopian society compare to modern day life, more specifically, to Lowry’s novel (The Giver).In the Giver Jonas was selected to be the receiver and received most of the memories, but with all of the wisdom he had attained he realized that his society was wrong. To begin with, a dystopia is a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding, our modern society has equal opportunity and good jobs etc. For example a similarity between modern society and The Giver’s society is, both have school, a law system and Leaders (Elders).Another similarity is how the governments run, people know little about it. Another way they are similar is education while they learn less, they are grouped together until they are 12 years old.

The community in The Giver is not a question it is obviously a dystopia. The characters in The Giver are dystopian characters,the community has so many rules and the people do not even care about the repetitive rules. The people in the community are dystopian characters. I am positive about this because in chapter 7

The giver community is a dystopia. I know this because when you compare the giver community to our world it takes a minute but I guarantee it is a dystopia, you can see this because on the out side looking in, you know all of the secrets that make up the giver community. another reason it is a dystopia is because when people imagine a perfect world it is not anything like the community of the giver, lastly is the fact that the government plans out people’s lives. I will go into detail and make many other points in this essay about both sides of this question.

When many people think of a dystopian society, like the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry, they think of the worst possible conditions and an overall farfetched idea of an actual society. In our modern day society, we can in fact see color, and we have an abundance of memories, but can our daily life be at all that different from the epitome of a dystopian society in The Giver? There are various differences between both societies as well as similarities. For example, our society has a different ideal where we appreciate differences unlike the dystopian society in The Giver that disparages differences. Our society also contrasts from the dystopian society since the people in The Giver society have fewer choices, like how they can only see in

The human race has spent millennia trying to form utopian societies, but have failed, and instead created dystopias. Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver dives deeper into the vast concept of ideal and perfect societies and then introduces the differences presented between our society and an organized and well thought out utopia. From this we know that life in the dystopian society of The Giver is different than the life in our society today. One of the first differences that can be noted between our lifestyles is the structure of our families, most importantly the amount of offspring included in a family.

I know that the community in The Giver is a dystopian society because the citizens have to go through a period called Sameness. In this period of sameness the citizens do not get to choose anything they want to do like their job or how many children they should have and they kill people they feel shouldn't be there anymore. The author describes how only the Giver and the new receiver (jonas) knows about what is happening in their reality, and they are the only one’s that can see every extravagant color and feel pain. Therefor, every other citizen can not see color or feel pain the citizens think that everything is perfect and they have the most wonderful life. The citizens go along with everything that is said for them to do, and everything

Would the community in the giver be a utopia or a dystopia. A dystopia is a pretty place on the outside, but not on the inside.The community presented in THE GIVER can be considered a dystopia because of control,sameness, and surveillance.

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

|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?

The Giver Imagine a world without freedom, love, or color. Jonas, the protagonist in, The Giver experiences this everyday. Comparing Jonas’s society to modern day society you can tell that they have very little in common. Their society is trying to create sameness to keep from making bad choices, but is that worth the risk, trying to make a dystopian society into a utopian society?