The Giver By Lois Lowry: Imagine Your Own Utopian Society

In order to become a hero the trait of wisdom must be presented in an individual, this is because without wisdom you would not be able to lead others into success. In The Once and Future King, King Arthur is taught by a magician named Merlyn who turns him into different animals to learn lessons that he soon uses in his later life as King. This passage below explains that wisdom is something that must be experienced with time:

In the first few paragraphs, Jonas appears to be nervous as his father talks about how his ceremony of twelve felt like and how it went. In the movie “The Giver”, Jonas is nervous and anxious. He states in the movie that he feels like no position is meant for him, that he sees stuff other people don’t. His parents comfort him by saying that whatever assignment he gets it will be the right

Wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there is one character who shows a tremendous amount of wisdom. Atticus shows his wisdom throughout the story by teaching Scout how to be young wise girl and teaching her how to read and write. Shows Jem how to be wise and knowledgeable , and shows it in the defending of Tom Robinson.

In Apology, Socrates is confronted with questioning of why he thinks people slander him the way they do. To answer, Socrates brings up the term of “human wisdom.” This is a type of wisdom that is not godly, and Socrates expresses that he is not wise at all. Human wisdom composes the notion that having great wisdom is having the ability to not think he knows what he does not know. In order to support his claim, Socrates brings up the Oracle story. Here, Chaerephon asked the Oracle if anyone was wiser then Socrates and “Pythian replied that no one was wiser.” In Socrates understanding of how he was most wiser, he told a story about going to three different types of people: politicians, poets, and craftsmen. Out of these three, it was understood that the hierarchy is reversed and the craftsmen are truly wise in their craft but felt this made them speak in other fields, when if fact they knew nothing about. These cases bring up the human wisdom and why Socrates is exploited as very wise, because he does not try to think and speak on something he does not know. The oracle brings up the “form” of what human wisdom is and uses Socrates as an example. In the end, the person who is wisest knows that his wisdom is worthless.

In chapter 12, the grandfather taught his grandson wisdom by allowing him to learn from his own mistakes, as had his grandfather before him. The first time I remember learning about wisdom was when I was about six. I had been trying to convince my mother that, since it smelled so good, vanilla extract had to taste amazing. Long story short she told me otherwise, I didn’t listen, and I ended up in a spitting, gagging mess. Wisdom means acquiring many small pieces of knowledge over a lifetime and knowing when and how to put them to use when and where a situation arises in which those particular pieces of information are required. Wisdom is life’s gift to us for trying to demonstrate all the virtues that give meaning to

The Epistles talk about wisdom in other ways too. In the letters to the Corinthians we lean much about wisdom and knowledge. They say the wisdom of God is a mystery. It being so great that man cannot understand the amount. It tells us to be wise in the knowledge of God's word because Satan will take advantage of our ignorance of his ways. If a foolish

Utopia; a place where everything is perfect, what would you do to have one? “Harrison Bergeron,” a short story by Kurt Vonnegut is about a utopian society held together by disabling everyone to be equal. The society is controlled by the government with no way of fighting back. However, one person, Harrison Bergeron, does or at least tries to fight back, but he does not do it for the right reasons.

In the novel, The Giver, people have been stripped of powerful and potent emotions such as love to match the strict guild lines of their community. Lowis Lowery illustrates through the Transition of Jonas, how human emotions are necessary to build a character with moral and ethical values and promote a life worth living fully. In Jonas community people do not understand emotion or pain because life is so controlled and predictable.

After examining the Utopia in “The Giver”, I do not support eliminating personal choice and freedom for a Utopia. One reason I believe in freedom and choice is I believe individuals should choose their own jobs, unlike in “The Giver” where they cannot. If people chose their own jobs, they are motivated to contribute to society. Some people chose jobs that others may not because they get some personal benefit from it. Steve Jobs said,” Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.”

When one says that this elderly person has wisdom from various life experiences, he/she is not saying that the elderly person knows much about books and their profession. Instead, one would be speaking about the elderly person’s vast knowledge about what is important in life due to their multitude of experiences. While the elderly person may not be completely wise in the most encompassing form of wisdom, the elderly person does appear to have a more expansive understanding of what is important in life. Simply knowing what matters in life, however, does not satisfy the ultimate form of wisdom, for the wise must know why these things matter in life. That is, a truly wise person must have insight beyond the theoretical, into the practical. Beyond this, a wise person, in this view, must also know how to achieve what matters most, and, in knowing so, do what matters most. I say this because a truly wise person would be able to act upon what they know to be the most important thing in life. It is wiser for a person to act than to merely conceptualize what is most essential in life.

Wisdom is not always affiliated with those society gives power to. It is often thought that those in power are those that possess the greatest knowledge and ability for the situations at hand. The reality of this may be quite different, often those who are the “wisest” in society are not in a position of power at all. They spout wisdom and blindly hope that maybe someone will listen and effect the change. If someone were to listen, society may be different, but they often don’t. This individual is that of the fool, the comic who seems to understand more about the world than those running it. The fool in Shakespeare is one of the least foolish characters in the play. Throughout both comedies and tragedies, Shakespeare uses the character of the fool to guide the main characters and offer insight into the situations at

Through interviewing the people who have an esteem for being wise, Socrates finds that the people who have greater characters are less wise than those with lesser characters, as they think they know what they do not know, and that makes them less wise. The real wisdom belongs to the God, and human wisdom is worthless. By reaching this conclusion, Socrates shows that when the Delphi said that he was the wisest person, he did not mean Socrates as an individual, but instead as an example of a person who realizes that human wisdom is

i'm going to be talking about if it's possible to make our world into a utopia a place without anger,sadness,depression,helplessness and many more.

What does it mean to be wise? Webster's Dictionary defines the word "wise" as being "marked by deep understanding, keen discerment". Through the telling of the ancient Mariner's tale, the Wedding-Guest became sadder and wiser. He became sad in that he identified himself with the shallow and self-absorbed mariner. However, the mariner changed his ways. The Wedding-Guest became wise through realizing that he himself needed to alter his ways.

The quality of your individual life would greatly improve in utopia. The burdens you face from corporate monopolies, the overwhelming weight of the devaluation of your currency and the lack of faith in your neighbors to achieve a civilization of peace and mutual respect has taken its toll for too long. Although this sounds as if it was taken directly from George Orwell’s book (1984) itself, the propaganda of a utopian government rule and the current everlasting war breathes as it’s on self-reliant organization today. Weary of the multiple political parties that are emerging every three seconds, we are faced with a question that has been proposed since the beginning of logical thinking. Is it