In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the utopian society where Jonas lives is superior to Elsewhere. Jonas’ utopian society is perfect because it is efficient. There is peace, honesty, and everyone is fed in Jonas’ community. Elsewhere is a world based on feelings and choice. Feelings can hurt people, and people can make wrong choices; but feelings can make people ecstatic, and people can make positive choices. Jonas’ utopian society is a better place to live. Jonas’ utopian society is a far better place to live than Elsewhere because there is no hunger and people are assigned jobs. Hunger is not a problem in Jonas’ society. “Jonas lay awake, tortured by hunger, remembered his life in the community where meals were delivered to each dwelling every …show more content…
Peace is always present in Jonas’ community. “You had no way of knowing this. I didn’t know it myself until recently. But it’s a cruel game” (page 134). In this quote, Jonas tries to explain there is real war in Elsewhere to Asher. He does not want Asher to play the game of good guys and bad guys. Jonas also tells Asher there is no real war in the community. War causes death which means people do not die from war in Jonas’ community. Dying due to warfare is a harmful way to die and does not happen in Jonas’ community. Jonas’ community has no war making it a better place to live than Elsewhere. Lastly, there is no lying in Jonas’ community. “He had been trained since the earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie” (page 70). In this quote, Jonas says no one lies in the community. This means the community knows the truth. In Elsewhere, people lie hiding the truth. The community can run more efficiently knowing the truth. Honesty builds trust, and then people feel safe because they can trust another person. Jonas’ community revolves around honesty which makes Jonas’ community a better place to live than Elsewhere. Living in Jonas’ community is better than living in
In Jonas’s community, everyone has the same. Therefore, General welfare leads a society into an outstanding democratic society by giving all the qualities of the government.
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.
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.
Living in a perfect world is like living in an anthill. An ant does not think on it’s own, make it’s own decisions, and doesn't really have any own identity, just like the utopians. It is not worth living in a perfect world. The utopian society we are introduced to in the book, The Giver, has many different characteristics that make the perfect life unbearable. Examples of these things are The Receiver, the community, and the chief elders.
Our societies are very different. Imagine a world without color, love, and no freedom of choice There are many differences between our society and the society Jonas lives in. While ours are both dystopian, we function differently in many ways. We have the freedom to choose. And many other freedoms.
Lowry writes The Giver in the dystopian genre to convey a worst-case scenario as to how modern society functions. A dystopia is an “illusion of a perfect society” under some form of control which makes criticism about a “societal norm” (Wright). Characteristics of a dystopian include restricted freedoms, society is under constant surveillance, and the citizens live in a dehumanized state and conform to uniform expectations (Wright). In The Giver, the community functions as a dystopian because everyone in the community conforms to the same rules and expectations. One would think that a community living with set rules and expectations would be better off, but in reality, it only limits what life has to offer. Instead, the community in the novel is a dystopian disguised as a utopian, and this is proven to the audience by the protagonist, Jonas. Jonas is just a norma...
The short story Harrison Bergeron helps support the idea that all Utopias are going to fail. In Harrison Bergeron characters like him find flaws in their “perfect” community and do something about it. In the Giver, Jonas is the character that rebels against the community because he is able to see past the lies set up by the elders and see the bad parts of it. Another reason it failed was because of the pain from the handicaps. Jonas’s community doesn’t experience any pain,except for Jonas and the Giver, Jonas makes a stand by escaping and leaving the memories of pain for the rest of the community.
Perfection is something that people have been trying to achieve since the beginning of humankind. The Giver and Pleasantville are two of the many fictional societies that try to reach this so-called perfection. Both societies limit or eliminate differences and freedoms of their fellow citizens. This usually leads to the downfall of a society, making it a dystopia. The Giver has ideals such as no bad weather and hard decisions are made for the citizens while Pleasantville has no extreme weather. Issues like fire are practically non-existent. In both stories, the protagonists reject their society by breaking laws. The communities in The Giver and Pleasantville have their similarities and differences, making each society one-of a kind.
Even though both the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry and modern society are both unique in their own ways, our society is a better society to live in. Our society gives us more freedom to choose for our own benefits and
The Giver film and the “short story” “The ones who walk away from Omelas” both showed different societies with the same utopian background at the beginning. Each society characterized for their happiness, beautiful and imaginary settings with organized communities, and very intelligent people. But at the same time, they were miserable and selfish proving and showing that a perfect life doesn’t exist. Having laws and beliefs, which they made converting it into dystopian societies. Having perfection on the outside, but the inside completely rotten.
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (97). In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, no one has seen a rainbow after a storm, no one knew what colors were; what choosing was; what it meant to be an individual. Everyone lived in complete Sameness, and never learned what it meant to be an individual. By eliminating as much self expression as possible in Sameness and society, Jonas's community has rejected the individuality of a society where people are free to move society forward. In The Giver individuality is represented by colors, memories, and pale eyes.
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.
“We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.”- Mike Peters. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the citizens in the community live without choice, meaning they have no control over their own lives. Because of that they do not suffer the consequences for any choice but they do not get to experience freedom. Lois Lowry is saying, the importance of personal choice can change a person's emotions, helps people’s abilities to be independent and affects the freedom which allows a person to pursue what they want in life and to make their own decisions for their future. A person’s emotions can change because they do not know what to feel since all their decisions are made for them, being able to choose
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.