The Giver: A Dystopian Society

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

The Giver shows the ideology of a dystopian theme as it has the citizens being controlled by the authority. Members of the community are being watched by The Community so that they will not perform anything that hurts the population. For example, “”you know that there’s no third-chance”. The rules say that if there is a third transgression, he simply has to be released.” is quote said Jonas’s mother while sharing her experience that day. In this quote The Community is empowered and regulates every community member to be the way they want them to be; perfect. “Attention. A reminder Stirrings must be reported in order for treatment to take place. “”Jonas you HAVE to take your pills!””is another quote in The Giver. In this quote both the Community

Everybody has a different opinion on a utopian and dystopian society, Jonas’s has a little of both.However, some things are alike some are also different.While modern society is similar in some ways to Jonas’s society, the differences in birthdays, jobs, and mourning death reveal how different people have differences preferences for a dystopian and utopian society.

In retrospect, in The Giver, there’s many similarities in comparison to our modern society. Even if Jonas’s society seems like a horrible dystopia, it’s not much different. The only difference between his society and ours, is that we have more freedom. Our freedoms include freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, and freedom of religion, which Jonas;’s society does not

Though our modern day society isn’t perfect, we have a book call The Giver that shows how an ideal society should live. Without love, compassion, or fear, the characters in The Giver live happily and perfectly. While in modern day society we are far from perfect and have all those feelings, we try to make the best of our lives. Even though we love in different worlds, there are certain distinctions that make our society alike, but also different. Such as families, rules and laws, and individuality. These are some of the things that seperate a utopian society and a dystopian society.

Anthem is a book about a golden age society. Most of the time that means that it is a dystopian book. But this society is not destroyed by the people. It is a good city that has been transported to the old west sort of. They don't have any electricity so they have to use torches and candles for lights. They have a council of scholars that does all of the inventions for the world because every city is the same. Every one is the same. They are not allowed to look at themselves and they can not say the unspeakable word. It is I, if they say this word they are punished by death from the council of scholars. I is an independent word. Therefore they are speaking about themselves and they are not allowed to think about themselves. they can only think

The community presented in The Giver can be considered a dystopia because of control, sameness,and constant surveillance.

If Society were to choose things for the world to be perfect the world might actually be perfect in a way. The story The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian novel about a boy named Jonas and his community. The story is about Jonas becoming the receiver of memory which means he gets ever memory of everyone who ever lived. In the community everyone except Jonas and The Giver does not have their memories. If our society did that today it would be perfect. If society chose how things worked then everyone would be the similar and there would be no differences. Society would make it so no one could see color, no choosing spouses, no pets, no love, certain words would be banished, smell would be gone, weapons, you would have to take medication,

Some may argue that a utopian society is entirely possible. Utopia is defined as any visionary system of political or social perfection. Realistically, however, such a concept is humanely impossible and thus imaginary. The unique religious exception is considered heaven. Many pieces of modern literature continue to capture the utopian-dystopian belief, in which the author demonstrates that an artificial utopia will undoubtedly lead to a dystopian future.

There are a few similarities between modern day and The Giver’s society, however while looking good at first sight both get increasingly darker as time goes on and you dig deeper. Jonas figured this out the arduous way through watching a release, a twin that his father had done (release is when someone does something wrong 3 times, it’s an unknown death punishment) then he internally exclaimed “He killed it! My father killed it!”(Lowery 188) This was the beginning of Jonas plan to allow the

The Giver is a dystopian-fiction book by Lois Lowry, that seems that it is a utopian society, it is actually dystopian, Jonas realizes that the Elders has taken away everyone’s freedoms and individual-ities, for the so-called common good of the community it becomes more and more evident that the community is a bad place in which to live. When Jonas realize how important they are, he could not take the fact that the people in the community are

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

The Giver by Lois Lowry is an outstanding book that I personally enjoyed a lot. It amazes me the difference between our society and Jonas’s .Jonas lives in a society that if any of us were there we would apply for release!

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." A dystopia consists of something that makes a person tremble or have them cringe in disgust. It consists of a person's worst nightmares but never compares to others. It is rare for one's dystopia to match another. Lois Lowry was visiting her father who had lost parts of his memory, an idea popped into her head. What would life be if it were similar to her father's, a world where you wouldn't remember those painful memories of the past? Although her idea of a utopia seems almost perfect, it raises the question, can Jonas's community be considered bad or good? I believe that the Giver can be considered as an example for a dystopia because of the unfortunate circumstances that lead the

When a person slowly starts to discover something new, it can drastically change the point of view of how they see and react to everything. When Jonas was given his new positive as the Receiver, he catches himself in that situation, unsure of how to treat everything around him like nothing is wrong. When a change happens, it can be a scary experience. It gives off feelings that people sometimes can’t explain, whether a good or bad feeling.