The Giver, Equilibrium and Modern Day Society

“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen” (Lowry 103). Imagine a world with no control over who you marry, what your job is, what you wear, or what you get to eat for every meal. This is what it’s like in The Giver by Lois Lowry. The people live in a community that is severely more controlled than ours. We have the freedom to have a pet, have as many kids as you want, and say what you want. The people in The Giver do not have those freedoms. The people in the community don’t even know what love is. In our world love is each individual’s choice, but not in The Giver. In other words, they don’t get to experience the precious parts of life, such has having a wedding and giving birth to your child. No society is perfect, but citizens of every community have an

The world in The Giver is not perfect because nothing can really be perfect. It is almost impossible to think of a perfect world, and if you do there will always be a flaw in one way or another to someone. The world can never truly satisfy the needs of everyone. As Hannah Montana once said, “Nobody’s perfect”, I guess she was talking about

The giver follows the life of a young boy named Jonas. In the future, society is different from now, emotions, colour, pain, and liberty are all things of the past, in this alleged dystopian novel. Thorough explanation of this is left out in the novel, what we know is some war or tragedy due to all the emotions, opinions, cultures etc. led to great measures being taken. Thus eliminating all feelings both good and bad, which in turn dehumanized the whole population almost making them in to living robots, just so that the chance of another catastrophe is narrowed down to almost zero. Liberty is merely an illusion in this novel since no choices are made by the people only by the “elders” who aren't explained a lot either

Could you imagine your world in which everything was predetermined for you, and you didn’t have a choice? This is the reality in The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas faces these problems and many others as he completes his adventure. Although some may think this to be devastating, this is normal in his society. In the dystopian society conveyed in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there are many similarities and differences to our modern day societies.

The movie Equilibrium depicts a futuristic society where emotions are not allowed and are punished with death therefore placing the society under a totalitarian regime that blames all problems on one thing: emotions. In the

The final reason that I think the Giver portrays a dystopian society is their method of release. They may think that they’re sorting out good and bad, but what do they know? If they don’t know anything about love, why should they know about pain, suffering, death, and war? Everyone outside of the releasing room thought their dear friend was going Elsewhere… but the people inside that horrid room witnessed, or committed, the murder of innocents. There were no such things as identical twins; the lighter one would be killed. The people had no perception of death, for all they know that little baby, which just happened to be 3 ounces lighter than his brother, could really be going Elsewhere. Even if they’re traveling there through a garbage chute. Not only children were released though, as Jonas’ mother tells them it can happen to the middle aged too, “‘You know that there’s no third chance. The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.’” (pg.9). Some people were so ignorant on the subject that they used the word as a joke, like the speaker when the pilot flew over the town, “NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing…” (pg.2). Who wants to

“We don't dare to let people to make choices of their own.”In The Giver they decided things like their jobs,spouses,and children, whereas in our society we decided these things on own.The society in The Giver has many differences and few similarities with modern day society.

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.

Have you ever wanted to live in a place that is peaceful, quiet, and has everything under control? Would you give up colors, weather, memories or even love for that? Jonas lives in a futuristic community that has everything under control. However, when Jonas becomes the Receiver, everything changed. Jonas starts to become curious about the truth, Elsewhere and the past. The Giver’s community would be better with love, colors, and pain.

Do you remember learning about the Holocaust, Jim Crow Laws, or the Spanish Inquisition? For most of us, these events, and many more like them, have shaped our morals, beliefs, and way of life. Imagine having those past referrals withdrawn and no longer having navigation as to what has made us who we are. This is a reality for the citizens in the book, The Giver, as we observe many problems in their utopia from an overlying dilemma, withdrawal from the past. Living life without the knowledge of history deprives us of skill and identification, hinders our understanding of the future, and incites previous mistakes to recur.

Imagine living in a society where all emotion is suppressed and all knowledge of the outside world is not available to any person. How would that make a citizen feel? Well, of course they wouldn’t have the correct knowledge to understand how the feeling truly is, but those who are not ignorant would feel a starvation to know more about not only the outside world, but their own history. Within the novel The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, the reader is brought into a society where most emotions and knowledge are suppressed. As well as the fact that it isn’t very encouraged to have individuality.

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.

Jonas´s society and our society have nothing in common. Image living in a world where you can't make your own choices. Jonas the protagonist in The Giver society tried to create a utopia but led to a dystopia. Comparing modern day society to Jonas’s society they have very little in common. Jonas’s society has No love, No Individuality , and they're controlled, While our society has love, we celebrate Individual differences, and we have freedom.

In the novel The Giver Lois Lowry writes about a utopian society in the future from the perspective of a boy named Jonas who is 11 years old. Every one has the same value as the next person—no individuality— the only people who have the upper hand are the elders and they control everything in the society such as the job that is assigned to you. Death is never said in the novel it is called being released until The Giver tells him about it because of the new child Gabriel when he is in danger of being released , people who would break the rules would also be released. The event that is coming up for Jonas is the ceremony of twelve where you are assigned what job you will have also where you become an adult. Jonas has something special where he can sometimes see colors unlike the others who can not.