All societies in the world are unique. They are different and similar in many ways. Jonas’s society and our society is a perfect example of this. In The Giver the men and women are not allowed to have children and in our society men and women have babies every day. Even though there are differences there are similarities too like how the children go to school just like us. We have many similarities and differences in our society compared to Jonas’s dystopian
What determines a society to be either a utopia or a dystopia? Would it be everyone following the rules? In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a new “Utopian” culture blossoms from the previously failed society. The Giver’s nation starts out with the intention of creating a utopian society; however, the strict limitations turn it into a dystopia where there are receivers, like Jonas, that hold the good and bad memories from the past culture. Jonas will experience great pain and great joy through his job as the Receiver instead of the whole community sharing the burden. The Giver’s world is a dystopia because of the following three reasons: they kill people that disobey the rules, they do not get to pick their own jobs, and, above all, they beat children if they do not use precise language.
“I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruction” (48). In the old days, when people in Jonas’s community valued individual needs, there were lots of terrible happenings: violence; and then the society ended up with general welfare and safety. It is difficult for us to think of a world without color, freedom, music and love, but in The Giver, the society denounces these things in order to make room for peace and safety. In The Giver, by having a society based on general welfare they gave safety to their people. No violence, no criminal activities, nor homicides.
Do you think that by having twins, the one twin you don’t like gets killed? In The Giver Jonas’s Community has no freedom nor choice in anything they do. They think that by taking away all this freedom that they could have a perfect community newsflash, nothing's perfect. Do you think the Giver is a Utopia or Dystopia? In my opinion The Giver is a Dystopia because they don’t have color, they release kids for bad reasons, and why the Giver is a Dystopia not a Utopia.
In The Giver, a narrative by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s father illustrates his feelings during his Ceremony of Twelve and Jonas tells about his own feelings concerning the forthcoming event. In the text it states, “‘But to be honest, Jonas,’ his father said, ‘for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be,’”(Lowry, paragraph 3). This segment of text elucidates the reason of Jonas’s father’s lack of surprise of his Assignment. As stated above, Jonas’s father was already certain of his Assignment, which he continues to explain to be a Nurturer. Jonas’s father explains that as a result of the love he showed all the Newchildren and the time he spent at
The Giver and Matched are both futuristic societies with a lot of rules. In The Giver the Elders choose their match as well as their children. Jonas starts loving Fiona but isn’t allowed and stops taking the pill. In Matched the officials choose their match but they can have their own children. Cassia is matched with Xander but also loves Ky and doesn't know what to do. In both story they all get jobs for the rest of their lives but in Matched they just call it vocations. Jonas gets the Receiver of memory and Cassia is supposed to be the sorter.
Characters in both of the novels Code Talker and The Giver have different personalities, but also are similar in ways as well. In the novel Code Talker, Ned Begay is looked upon differently since he is Navajo. At a young age Ned had to leave his family to attend boarding school, but returns later to go to the Navajo High School. As he took a liking to studying maps of islands, he was laughed at by the teachers and even students for being a Navajo who imagined traveling to far away places. Jonas from the novel The Giver, grows up in the Community, which is a society that lives by strictly implemented rules. He starts to see things that are strange to him, like the time he saw an apple change while tossing it with his friend, but the Community wants everyone to live and feel the same. Every year a ceremony is held that recognizes the children from newborn to age 12, and those turing 12 are given an Assignment. Jonas receives a very rare and special Assignment, The Receiver. He gathers memories from the Giver and starts to put his life in the Community and the memories of the past together. He realizes that there are some things in the Community that need to be changed, and is look strangely at when asking for others to change their way of play.
One difference between Jonas’ society and modern day society is the lack of love. When Jonas asked his father and mother if they loved him his father's response was, “Jonas.You, of all people. Precision of language, please! (Lowry 159)” The word love is used so little in Jonas’ community that it’s nearly obsolete. Unlike Jonas’ society, modern day society is free to love, therefore, if I would go home and ask my family if they love me, they would respond with, “Of course,” or “You know I love you very much.” In Jonas’ society there is no love. However, not only do they have no love but they also experience Sameness.
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it.” Holding memories is just one of the many differences between our societies because though The Giver’s society is similar to our modern-day society, there are many big differences between them.
A dystopian society is known to be described as an imaginary society. Jonas had been given his job as a receiver when he turned 12. When Jonas was given the memories from the Giver his whole life began to change. Jonas had become aware of what was going
All over the world, people die everyday due to war, starvation, crime and under development in medicine and technology. Absence of food and technology consumes 30% of the world. With everyone being equal and the same, there would be no crime, no wars and more progression as the human species. Wars would disappear, as people would be united and therefore peaceful. As shown in the novel the giver by Lois Lowry, civilians live in a peaceful and harmonious environment with no conflict or crime. Could this be the future for humanity? One of peace and progression?
In the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, Jonas's community is in a secluded place and the people controlling it give restrictions to their freedom and choice. For example, when Jonas's friend Asher was standing in line and said smack instead of snack he got hit. This shows that they are not understanding and they are strict and very careful in every word everyone says. Another example is how they choose the jobs, the way they choose the jobs is unfair because they don't give the people the choice to do anything, the rules are made and everyone has to obey them. Also, the community's government puts limits to the freedom of the people. For example, when Jonas was joking around with Asher and said you're gong to be released the elders took Jonas
Imagine a place where there is no color, no choice, a place where individuality and freedom has been traded for sameness and security. Lowry has created such a place in the novel The Giver. This place, or rather community, is presumed to be in the future and is supposed to be a utopia where everyone conforms to the rules. The citizens have no connection with their past or what they have given up. There are only two people who can remember. One is the Giver and the other is the Receiver of Memory. These two people are the main characters in this story. The Giver is an old man that the council of elders turns to when they have a problem. He listens to their proposals and then tells them what they should do by basing his decisions on the
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 story is about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a community where everything is perfect, everything is the same and no one is allowed to brake the rules imposed by the Elders. The Elders are in charge of creating all the rules and basically ruled everyone’s lives.
When mankind started to build a community, maintaining orderliness and balance also came with it. The citizens are trying to make a utopia or a perfect society for them to live in. Of course, as the years passed, it has come to their senses that there has to be someone who can lead the society to greatness. That 's the time they 've started to appoint leaders that are capable of maintaining the very stronghold of the society. These leaders have the power to control their society to their will. Unfortunately, some of these leaders became deprived of power which blinded them that instead of making a utopia, they 've made a dystopian society that drastically affected their citizens. Similar to the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas, the protagonist in the novel did not know the state of the society he lives in