Life in the dystopian society is easy going the government makes all the decisions for you. Life in the modern day society we have a little more flexibility in our lives. There's a thin line between our modern day society and a dystopian society. Jonas and his family aren't related. Our families mostly are related and know our family line. But some families have adopted kids or foster kids living with them. The difference is that most of them know or eventually find out it's not their biological family. The similarity is that today's society they also have unbiological family members. Also in the “giver” there are birth mothers. In modern day society could be called surrogacy. The difference is that the woman carrying the child will …show more content…
They don’t know what love is. As Jonas’s father said it isn’t “precise language” which is considered rude. In modern day society we have lots of love and most of the times it’s real. We have background knowledge from fairytales and books. Their society doesn’t have any background knowledge to “love” because all of that was hidden from them centuries ago. Only Jonas knew about it because he was the Receiver in training. Jonas thought it was unfair that only he could ever experience love. So Jonas, being a teenager, naturally rebellious and thinking he knows best; decides to share all his memories with his society. All the memories, good and bad. Like in our modern day society teenagers also are rebellious and think they know what’s best for everyone. So Jonas decided to leave into elsewhere. By doing that it would automatically send all the memories of grief, love, and war. Sometimes it’s good when teenagers do what they think is right but sometimes it can have consequences. Just goes to show that our world and Jonas’s society isn’t really that different after all. Both society's are a little dystopian and have a little utopia in them. It just depends on the
At this point, Jonas has realized what release really means. He finds out that the little baby Gabe that has lived with his family is being released at the very next morning. And the large plan that has been made with The Giver, to get rid of sameness within his community can’t be carried out because he knows that he must save Gabe’s life. He starts to really understand what it means to truly live and truly love. He knows he loves Gabe and, therefore he must sacrifice himself in order that Gabe might live. So, he quietly leaves in the middle of the night, and takes Gabe with him and they leave the community. Jonas is running for their lives because he knows they’re being hunted down. He hopes that they will just give up and assume that maybe
After feeling love through his training as the Receiver, he asks his parents about their love for him. The conversation between them says, “ Jonas asks, ‘Do you love me?’... Later, his mom responds, ‘Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete’ ” (Lowry 127). The ignorance that they have grown up knowing, does not allow them to fully be happy by experiencing love.
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
When looking at a Utopia against a Dystopia, some people often confuse the two. A utopia is described as a perfect society where everything is perfect. A dystopia is the opposite. It is filled with misery and despair and not a desirable living condition. When looking at Veronica Roth’s Divergent, it is evident that she was influenced somewhat but Thomas Moore’s Utopia when writing her series. Although Divergent eventually morphed into a dystopia, it starts off as a utopian society loosely based on Thomas Moore’s.
Jonas had obtained these new memories and feelings which caused him to do things that the society thought were insane. In doing so Jonas had to stay true to himself, to accomplish his tasks. For example, Jonas had memories of feelings and wanted to really feel them,”Something within him, something had grown there through the memories, told him
“ He killed it! My father killed it!”. Woah! , now that is something unexpected for both Jonas and us . In The Giver book Jonas changes over the course of the novel by realizing how his society handles issues go against his values , by knowing the past , and making decisions that would impact the rest of his life.
However, past communities have, and jonas wants his community to have pain as well. Jonas once said, “Frightened meant that sickening feeling of something bad about to happen.”(p.1There are only two people in the society that can say this, and those two people are, The Giver, and Jonas. They are the only ones who really can say it and fully understand what it means because they are the only ones that have the memories. A time that Jonas felt really scared was on the field when all of his friends were playing a war game. He was scared because the memory of war automatically came to him. Asher, who was playing the game, didn't understand because he never knew what the game was based on. A second sentence that Jonas said was, “They’ve never known pain. This realization made me feel really lonely.”(p.112) Yet again this quote symbolizes that no one in the community has ever experienced pain before. One very important thing that Jonas said was, “I feel a ripping sensation inside me, about to make me cry!”(p.154) This quote symbolizes the most important thing. It shows that even Jonas as The Receiver of Memory doesn’t know what the tears in his eyes mean. An example from when he felt this was when he received the memory of sunburn. Once he received it, he couldn't really describe what was happening because this has never happened to him before. The one other thing that really
I think he is in his memories because as he is dying Jonas was imagining the people singing and happiness. And they could have gone in a circle the whole time because the further they went away the more memories died down. So as
Jonas lived with his younger sister and parents, in The Community. Here every citizen, children included, were required to uphold the mindset of corporate organization and success. An underdeveloped new child named Gabriel also lived with this family to be given a chance to thrive, by extending to him extra nurturing, before committing him to release. The community was governed by a set of rules that were enforced by Committee of Elders who also decided marital partnerships, to which families the newchildren were given and such unions would occur. The inhabitants of the Community did not know the pain and joy of memory because the Giver carried this burden for
Jonas and the giver come up with a plan to get jonas to go over the boundary of memories and bring them back into the community so that everyone can experience the joy and happiness of the past and make it the present. I think that the book really can relate to society today because our world is cayotic and dysfunctional. We tend to focus on only our country instead of others. We judge people and discriminate people just because of gender, the color of their skin,or even just because of their sexually interest. In the book they explain how they want everyone to be the same because it can cause conflict and dysfunction in the society and I think that in our world today being different can cause dysfunction in our society and it has before we have discriminated, murdered and had conflict for more than 200 years just over the difference between
One day in Jonas’s training with The Giver, he asks him what his favorite memory is. The Giver does not seem reluctant to give it away so Jonas lays down on the bed and is given the memory. Lois Lowry then describes a scene which sounds like christmas eve on a snowy winter night. When Jonas wakes up he is amazed by the memory but is also confused. There were old people in the room, this is confusing to Jonas because in the community when someone is too old to produce and to help the community they get released. Also Jonas is confused because he claims there was a feeling in the room and he just could not describe it. He says it is a warm feeling, then The Giver tells Jonas that the feeling he felt was called love. He is perplexed by the amazing feeling he felt. Later that night at dinner he asks his father, “‘Do you love me?...Your father means you used a very generalized word, so meaning less that it has become almost obsolete’” (127). In the community your are assigned a spouse and do not get to fall in love. Then you and your spouse can apply for a child, you do not get to have your own child. Also at a young age you are given special pills for what is called “stirrings” these pills minimize feelings towards the opposite sex. This means Jonas’s parents have no feeling towards Jonas or each other, if he were to die they would not really care and they would go on with their regular lives.
Jonas is a boy that just became a Twelve, who lives in a world without these things. Being a Twelve is an important in the community because that is when they acquire their jobs. Being the Receiver of Memory becomes Jonas’ job; one of the most important positions in the community.
In Jonas’s world this is normal along with all the other odd rules they have, but in our world we have the freedom to do as we please just so long as we do not break any laws. Unlike the world Jonas lives in we are allowed to choose the person we want to marry, in The Giver spouses are perfectly match to ensure that there is balance within the relationship. The relationships in The Giver are not allowed to express love toward each other, nor are they allowed to leave one another for another man/woman. In our world we can get married as many times as we want with whoever we want. Another point is that in order to own children you have to apply for them and you are only allowed to have one male and one female. You are not allowed to name your children either because there is something called a “Naming Ceremony” were the baby names are given. We are allowed to have as many children as we want and name them whatever we want to name them. Love is what brings families close together, some families are not blood related, but they share a strong connection through love for one another. In the novel families there have no feelings, so the people they live with are kind of just there and not purposeful. They don’t really care for you or feel love for you it is sad, but for them it is reality. For the families in our world this is not normal since we can feel love and are able
He wants this because in the community, they have family units and the word love is considered a precision of language. In chapter 16, page 129, Jonas had asked his parents "Do you love me?" they responded making love sound like a bad or inappropriate word. When Jonas had asked his parents that question, it was soon after he had experienced the memory of love and family. In addition, this experience allowed Jonas to leave the community to search for love and family, that much easier, and so the community could experience all his memories.
After declaring that he wants others to have choices, Jonas realizes that it would not be such a good proposal; he claims that the idea is, “Very frightening I can’t even imagine it. We really have to protect people from wrong choices” (Lowry 124). This evidence shows that Jonas is righteous because he cares about strangers who he does not have to care about. He does not want them to make decisions that might harm themselves or others, and he cares about everyone’s well being, even if he does not need to. Secondly, he sees how the community is immoral. He learns about his society executing people: “Jonas stared at him. ’Release is always like that? For people who break the rules three times? For the old? Do they kill the Old too?’ [...] ‘What should I do? I can 't go back! I can’t!’” (Lowry 192). This evidence demonstrates that Jonas is becoming more righteous because he realizes the truth about his society and does not want to be a part of it anymore because of their cruel actions. The community gives Jonas a haven to live in, but he does not want to stay when he learns about the killing. This shows that he is righteous because he is willing to be in danger for the right thing to happen. Jonas becomes more righteous after he becomes the Receiver because he believes in doing the right