The Giver is a book about a totalitarian government that controls its people by outlawing colors, pets and many things we take for granted today. In the dystopian society of “The Giver”, there are many differences from our modern society, some being the age system, the “family units”, and the economy and employment…
The American writer, Lois Lowry in her novel, The Giver, claims that in creating a utopian society the creator manufactures a dystopia, since the individuality of a person contradicts the creator’s idea of a utopia. She develops her claim by first creating a utopia where the residents lack individuality conforming to the criteria of sameness, then presenting the absence of intense emotions, then convey the reader’s thoughts of the utopia by placing a main character who gains his emotions and individuality, and finally declares that the utopia lacks morality spawning a dystopia. Lowry’s purpose is to criticize conformity in order to state that to enjoy life one must suffer to appreciate life. She establishes a thoughtful tone for the audience…
In The Giver, The Elders who are the leaders and the members of the government decide on an answer; they choose to let go of the individual right such as freedom of speech and freedom to choose that people had fought for in the past in exchange for the development as a nation which leaves the people without any rights as citizens nor a human being and makes their world a dystopia. The search for what is more important between individual or community good still remains as a mystery for people today and will never have a definite answer. However, this lesson would at least benefit everyone from choosing the wrong…
The book, ‘The Giver’, by Lois Lowry is a novel depicting a society where standards and rules are everything. Citizens of the community aren’t allowed to pick a single thing on their own: from the clothes they wear, to the assignments (jobs) they will work they rest of their lives. The community has been blindsided for years, and is highly unaware of the the pick-n-choose world they are missing out on. Consider that our current government had announced they were planning on recreating a population just like that. Having a civilization like the one Lois Lowry wrote about become real, would be an alarming concern. The nation that we live in today would no longer be the same. There would be no more deciding for ourselves. Everything would strictly…
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain, or past.” This quote was written by Lois Lowry in The Giver a 1993 utopian/dystopian novel. The Giver has many similarities and differences with modern society.…
In "The Giver" the society is set up to ignore and reject individuality. Each person is assigned a job and purpose and they are taught not to question anything. Though it seems like our society is the opposite of that idea and is instead one that encourages individuals to be unique, it hasn't always been like that. I believe that it's in social constructs that "The Giver" parallels current society. There are still certain social expectations that influence and often dictate an individual’s life. The book was also written for a middle to…
Its lack of free will for the people fails to meet the expectations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Giver explores the notion of “ignorance is bliss”, yet where the absence of pain is promised, the threat of enslavement and lack of free will hovers menacingly. It is the consequence of peace and stability, a sacrifice made to generate an ideally stable society—a society that turns out to be dystopian. Free will is essential to an individual’s personal, professional, and political life, it is the most fundamental of all human rights. Free will enables people to discover their potential both politically and professionally. As a personal matter, free will enables the freedom of expression, promoting individuality. Individuality would then lead to diversity among people, and diversity is what gives humans strength to strive and excel the way they have. Free will and individualism is what defines mankind—a necessity for…
Can you imagine a world without pain, warfare, poverty, hunger, or terror? Sounds pretty good so far, right? Now, take away feelings, love, diversity, choices, and even the ability to see colours. It doesn't sound so great anymore, does it? Some people may consider such a place a utopia, shielding its inhabitants from all evil; others would say it is a dystopia, in which no one has the right to speak out, have choices, or to love one another. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a 12-year-old boy called Jonas finds himself in a dystopia when he realizes that there is more to life outside of his sheltered community. Although the people of Jonas' community know no different than their way of life, the society is a dystopia, rather than a utopia.…
First of all, in The Giver, the community took away freedoms to protects us from disease and loss, but at the same time, took away many great aspects of life. For instance, the government chooses your spouse, job, and two kids. You can’t touch another outside of your family unit, and know very little about real, strong emotions. There is no color or or music, and almost every decision is made for the people by the Chief Elder. The government got rid of things like weather, color, disease, music, real emotions, and hills were eliminated to create sameness, preventing war and apartness.…
What do you think of a world when you have to follow the same rules as everyone else and some decisions you cannot make on your own? The book "The Giver" is about a world with people who are equal and Jonas, the protagonist, has something that other's in the community don't. The novel "The Giver" is a society that appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopia as the story goes on. As a result, it is clear to see that the society in the novel has many similarties and differences with our world today. The world we live in and the world they lived in both are controlled by people.…
The book The Giver is a dystopia. It is a dystopia because you get your bike at 12 years old, they kill small children, and they can’t leave the community.…
Do you ever think that life is tuff know and unfair? Well in The Giver they are all the same and they don’t even get to have feelings, or memories, in fact they can’t even see in color. After knowing this I would think harder before saying life is unfair. Three things that I can compare to society know to the society in The Giver is number one we get to go outside of our house after dark with no punishment but not in The Giver, number two we don’t get killed for being to old, breaking a few rules, or for wanting out of the community, the last thing is something similar to in The Giver is that we live in a house with our parents until a certain age and in The Giver they do that to. To begin, I will be talking about how in The Giver they don’t get…
Imagine a world without color, pain, or feelings. It sounds terrible. The Giver is a book about a community that people in the community do not have to be worry about anything. In other words, they never experience the joy of life and success. Jonas’ community is a strict community to avoid negative emotions. However (TRANS), there are many things that citizens are not allowed to do by themselves. The purpose of this paragraph is to contrast the Jonas’ community to our community. First of all, in Jonas’ community everyone lives by the community’s rules. It means their food, their family, their decisions are chosen for them because they are under the community’s control. However, in our community people can make their own decisions and choose their favorite food to eat. Second, in Jonas’s community the Elders control the population. It means that kids are not raised in a house. They are raised in a center for a year and will be given to family, but (TRANS) the Elders are the ones to decide who can be assigned to care for children. However, in our community people have their own children and it does not matter how many children they want to have (INF). Another difference is that when they turn twelve, the children are given a job assignment and start training (GER) for their job, and after that, they work more till they become a responsible adult. By way of contrast, in our community people can start working (GER) whenever they want, and they might want to work (INF) less when they get older (COMP). In conclusion, we would realize that our decisions, emotions, and differences might make our life harder (COMP), so it would be great to be happy with the present life. Never make your life as same as (COMP) Jonas’ community because you are never going to feel the life. A world without color, pain, or feelings should be a destination you would never…
In the novel "The Giver" the society is much different from our society today. Well, it's not completely different. The societies also have many things that are similar between them. Some are more difficult to identify, but all of them are still existing. There are an extremely good amount of similarities and differences that can be identified and explained from throughout our society and the society of The Giver.…
In The Giver there is a lot of evidence explaining to the readers that the characters in this book do live a happy life, they are just hidden away from the bad things. All of the people in the community can make their own decisions, like volunteer hours and which place you want to volunteer at. You can resign jobs if you don’t like them, but only some citizens…