Dystopia In The Giver

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The book The Giver is a Dystopia because the people in their community have no choices, release and because the people don't know or understand what life is. The world in the beginning of the book seems like a utopia because how smoothly it runs but it actually is a dystopia because no world or place ever is perfect. This place or the givers world still has many flaws. The people in the community have absolutely no choices what so ever. The people already have their whole life rolled out in front of you without even knowing it. The council chooses your spouse, your family unit, your job, what you do everyday and how to do everything everyday. The rules that Jonas gets restrict him from doing certain things. “1. Go immediately at the end …show more content…

They just kill the person for being in a bad place at the wrong time or they weren’t even given a choice for being released. One bad move and you're out. “With gin minutes the speakers had crawled again, and the voice, reassuring now and less urgent, had explained that a Pilot-in-training had misread his navigational instructions and made a wrong turn. Desperately the pilot had been trying to make his way back before his error was noticed. NEEDLESS TO SAY HE WILL BE RELEASED” (2). The pilot accidentally made a wrong turn and now he is dead. He wasn’t trying to worry the community. He even tried to turn back before it was too late. He wanted to fix his mistake, but it was too late. Too many people had noticed it. Too many people got scared. The release of a person is horrific and makes it a dystopia because the people in the community don’t know what they are doing. They only release people during their life if they want to leave or if they did something that they can’t deal with or don’t know how to deal …show more content…

That the givers world is indeed a utopia, but just imagine living their life. You could say that that you would never get hurt. That you would never have to face any hard decisions, but everything would be put out before you. You would never know what color is. You would only know enough to get you through your life without questioning it. That is why their world is indeed a dystopia.
The book The Giver is a dystopian book because you don’t get to make any of your own decisions. You would never know the truth about release. You would never experience life how you should experience it. The world may seem perfect from someone’s view inside the community, but from the outside it is harsh and horrible. Their world could be turned into a utopia eventually, but as of right know it is a

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