Examples Of Dystopia In The Giver

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Imagine living in a society where you are assigned a wife, family, and job and having to share your dreams and feelings when you wake up every day. These things happen in The Giver by Lois Lowry that make it a imperfect world . This book has many reasons and supporting details to support that this community is an dystopia. Everyone in the morning in their community the families share their dreams and feelings with each other. “Usually at the family rituals when the family members told their dreams Jonas didn’t contribute much” (Lowry 34). This quote shows what the family of Jonas does everyday. Many people in the world today would find it odd and strange to have to share there own personal feelings to people that aren’t themselves. This …show more content…

‘“They’ll find exactly the right assignment for him’”(Lowry 17). Picture yourself when you are only 12 and get a job so young. Also imagine not getting to chose your job and get assigned a radon job that other people chose for you. This is a great example of how this is not a utopia because the people have no choice or say in their future.

Towards the end of the book Jonas is watching his father releasing a infant for the first time. “His father loaded the carton containing the body into the chute and gave it shove.” (Lowry 151) This quote shows the harsh definition of release in this society. Release in the community basically means death. If you are a infant or a baby that is needed or can’t be assigned a family they will be released. Also if you are old you are released on a certain date not when the time is right. This a very harsh example of why it’s a dystopian society.

Some might argue that its a utopia because everything is equal and everyone’s the same in some weird way. Also everyone might feel accepted and no conflicts because everyone is the same. The weakness of being a utopian society is that there are so many rules to keep people all the same a equal. Also with everyone being the same the world would be boring because there are no differences between

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