Similarities Between The Giver And Our Society

There are many similarities between the giver and our society. We are all human, both have celebrations, and both have rules we have to follow. We are different in the sense that our family systems are different, the community has no colours and they have no love. They live in a high tech Utopia with different ways while we just live in a middle-aged reality. There are many similarities between the giver and our society like how we both have jobs but there are mostly huge differences like how the community has no colour.

We are both sometimes similar. In the giver it quoted"I knew that there had been times in the past terrible times when people destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruction,"(Lois Lowry, The Giver)that quote was talking about how we are both humans. In the community, they have a celebration called the ceremonies while our community have celebrations while our community has celebrations to celebrate our kids getting older.In our society have rules that we have to follow and also in the community they have rules to follow, such as how they cannot lie or that is what Jonas thought at the beginning of the book. As we can see our society and the community have few similarities.

Our family systems are different in the sense that you set assigned your mate and kids while in our family system you mostly get to choose your mate and you make your kids. In the book, Jonas' community takes place in a world without colour while our world has lots of colours like red, blue,yellow.green. In the book, Jonas said"Do you love me"(Lois Lowry, the giver) and his parents' reply was" You could ask, ' do you enjoy me?'The answer is yes,"( Lois Lowry, The Giver) which proves there is no love in Jonas' community while in our society most parents would answer with a whole-heartedly" Yes, of course, we love you." We have different family systems', the community has no colours and they have no