The Giver Dystopian Society

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.

How can the government in the books be related to our government today? In both the book The Giver the and the book The City Of Ember the theme is about two very strict dystopian societies where the people believed they lived in a perfect world. In both stories there are examples that show similarities and differences that can relate our government to the two dystopian governments in the books.

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.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

The question of whether a perfect society is possible or even desirable suggests that our societies aren’t perfect as they are. In other words our societies are flawed and therefore imperfect and undesirable. In my opinion a society without flaws is neither possible nor desirable. Persuasive evidence to support my viewpoint is abundant in examples from literature, history and current events.

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

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 reason an increasing number of novels and movies based around utopian and dystopian societies are becoming more prominent is that these ideas are perfect for attracting additional viewers and readers, they are unrealistic and full of action.

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.

In Jonas’s society families are made up of four members which are a father, mother,one son and one daughter. In the beginning of the book,it states, “Two children-one male- one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules” (Lowey 8). This quote shows that the community has a very strict rule of the members in a family unit. In Jonas’s society, birthmother are the only people who give birth ,so the families are not biologically related. To clarify, it states “Three births, and that’s all. After that they are Laborers for the rest of their adult life, until they enter the house of the old” (Lowry 22). In our society, you can have as many children as you want and you whole family is related by blood. What would life be like if you were not biologically related to your

The Giver Emelly Sierra “Always question always wonder” – (The Giver, the movie). This quote relates because Jonas is becoming the Receiver of Memory and this means he questions all the memories he is receiving. In the dystopian society represented in The Giver there are several transformations and similarities from our recent day including school, family, birth, and career. Our school is a little similar to their school because we get grades and move up a grade, on the other world they also move up a grade.

The Giver by Lois Lowry revolves over the same idea as the lottery. Both dystopian stories show help people Force themselves in a tradition without seeking for a change in order to interfere with negative consequences. The lottery sets place in a village where the lucky winner of the contest is stoned to death. Instead of questioning their practices, individuals within each Community lead their people with fear