The Giver Research Paper

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

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

Have you ever wondered if you lived in a perfect society? A young boy named Jonas lived in the perfect world. After becoming the next receiver he starts to realize that his perfect world isn’t so perfect after all. The Giver by Lois Lowry, explains how a Utopian world would really be. The most important differences between Utopian Society in The Giver and dystopian society are Rituals, Assignments, and Families.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry the disadvantages of Sameness in Jonas’ society far outweigh the advantages. These disadvantages are shown through the way people can’t see colour, that feelings have been erased, and that people have no choice in their profession or education.

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

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

What if you lived in a community with no clue that your life was not as perfect as you thought? In Louis Lowry's The Giver, Jonas lives in what the community thinks is a Utopia but they haven't experienced the real world. His community is a Dystopia because of the lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control.

Jonas’s community that is displayed in The Giver is an dystopia. An dystopia is fictional perfect world where things have gone wrong. There are many examples that prove that Jonas’s society is an dystopia. Some of the examples are lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas grows up in a community of sameness, but soon later Jonas’s innocence is lost. As the Receiver of Memory, Jonas gets introduced to both pleasure and true pain. First, Jonas gets the memory of warfare and raw pain, which proves to be very painful and nothing Jonas has ever experienced. Next, the Giver gives Jonas the memory of love, which is a totally new concept to Jonas. Lastly, Jonas is shocked at the true meaning and act of release, this makes Jonas want to change the way things are run in the community. Jonas gets these memories as the Receiver of Memory but it soon makes him lose his innocence and see the world as it really is.

A dystopian society is one that is distinguished by characteristics such as the government, environment, or dehumanization in extreme conditions. This is the opposite of a utopia, which is supposedly perfect, yet quixotic. Dystopian and utopian societies portrayed in literature usually have controlling governments and limits on freedom. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the limitation of freedom comes in the form of having no memories. The people living in the community do not remember anything from the past.

"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

The community in The Giver is a dystopia because of the lack of uniqueness , sameness, and complete control of the entire community .

In the movie “The Giver,” Jonas lives in a rigidly controlled society where individual identity has become extinct. The Committee of Elders that oversee the society governs with a strict set of laws that aid in eliminating free will and choice from human beings. Jonas’s “community” appears to be an idealistic utopia absent of human suffering, hunger, disease, war and emotions. However, the utopian society is isolated from Elsewhere, which represents every other place in the world that rejects conformism and embraces individualism.

In “The Giver” “the community “resorted to “sameness”. What is sameness? Sameness is where everyone is exactly the same. What do you mean? Everyone is the same so there is no color and no memories. In the novel “The Giver” nine year olds get their bikes and females have to wear hair ribbons and keep them tied at all times. At age eight children have to start there volunteer hours. At age twelve the children are chosen for their jobs at the ceremony of twelve. What is the ceremony of twelve? The ceremony of twelve’s is just like the ceremony of ones ,twos, threes, fours, fives, six’s, sevens, eights, nines, tens, elevens, and twelves. The only difference for the twelve is at the age twelve you get assigned your job. Your jobs are chosen based off of what you spent most of your volunteer hours.

In the book “The Giver” it is trying to keep their community like a utopia. They are trying to accomplish this goal by keeping it in “Sameness”. An utopia is a world where there are no problems ( that is what the community is trying to be ) and an dystopia is a world made up of rules ( world,place,town anywhere people can live ). To me, I say that instead of it being utopia where everything is perfect and people have the right to make their own choice, it is an dystopia. Here are my reasons why I say it is a dystopia because they do not have the right to live the way they want,they live in a world that is ruled by rules ,and you have to be a certain age just to do something.