Is the United States a perfect community? With only 1 in 3 Americans claiming to be happy maybe the community in The Giver is best. Whether school, work, family, friends or drama is making someone unhappy, it is important to find a personal utopia. Meryl Davis said “I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.” In The Giver everything is equal and their are no choices, while in the U.S. individuality is recognized and embraced. The US and the community in The Giver attract different people to them. Three subjects that The U.S. and The Giver have different views on are expenses, birthdays and deaths. In the community The …show more content…
and The Giver have very different ways of honoring the dead. In the U.S., funerals are held or ashes are spread after a death from injury, sickness or old age. In The Giver ceremonies of release are held after release. Release is death by lethal injection. The U.S. in the same way as The Giver, both honor the dead. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy said “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” Both communities agree that honoring the dead is an important step in moving on. To repeat, The U.S. holds funerals or spreads ashes while The Giver holds a ceremony of release. The U.S. and the community in The Giver attract different people to them. In The Giver with no expenses, it is a lot less stressful compared to the U.S. In the US birthdays celebrate individuals, but in The Giver birthdays celebrate another year in the community. In The U.S. dead are honored by funerals or ashes being spread however in The Giver dead are honored by a ceremony of release. In The Giver everything is equal and their are no choices while In the U.S. individuality is recognized and
The Giver was an example of a dystopian society. In this community citizen doesn`t had any freedom. It had a lots of information about why it was dystopian, but today I will talk about few thing. First reason was the natural world was banished and distrusted. Second was information, independent thought, and freedom were restricted. The last was they had fear of the out side world.
The book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry perceives a utopian society, which eliminates all forms of conflict. What was intended to be a utopia became a dystopia, Individuals are living in a shadowed society, where nothing is as it seems. People are accustomed to having pain taken away from them their entire lives. This becomes a dystopia because they will never know what pain is.
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.
In these two societies, they both are similar by having a strict government that does not let anyone leave the community but however, in The Giver no body...
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.
This community is not a usual everyday community. Here people don’t have to worry about poverty, crime, starvation and basically any typical world problems. Although, this community still has many problems. People still think this is a wonderful place to live but this community is a dystopia. In Mrs. Lowry’s book “The Giver” she explains how families function here as well as the both negative and positive point of views for family.
The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were separated and killed in the middle of a war, she was devastated and the only way she was able to block and forget all of the horrifying things that were happening, were books (Lowry). “My books have varied in content… Yet it seems… that all of them deal with the same general theme: the importance of human connections,” Lowry explained in her autobiography. In the novel The Giver, Lois Lowry uses the literary elements symbolism, foreshadowing, and imagery to express the theme: importance of an individual.
In the Giver by Lois Lowry, the story is about a small community which is ideal, and everything is perfect. Everyone is happy with their lives. Jonas, the protagonist, also felt like that as well. He too, believed everything was perfect. But later on, he sees just how dangerous and terrible his community is. The community was seen as flawless at glance, but the dark side of it reveals what really happens.
Throughout the history of the world, there have been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all differed by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
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.
There are many differences and similarities. The book The Giver and the movie The Truman Show are somewhat alike and somewhat different. Both characters have complicated, yet “perfect” lifestyles. To begin with, in The Truman Show, Truman wanted to go somewhere else.
Modern-Day America is far from a utopia, but still not to be considerd a dystopia.America cannot be compatable to the futuristic society of The Giver by Lois Lowry. They both have bad qualities, such as America has a problem with racism, while in The Giver the goverment eliminates choices. In additionto that both societies have a problems with birth controll. Modern-Day America and The Giver has their ups and downs.
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.
Louis Lowry’s The Giver uses a dystopian society as a metaphor to show how one lives without pain and lacks knowledge of other places in order to give the reader a warring that society will never be perfect. “The Giver offers experiences that enhance readers levels of inquiry and reflection.” (Friedman & Cataldo pp102-112) At First glance the novel's setting seems to be a utopia, where all possible steps are taken to eliminate pain and anguish. Often the difference between a Utopia and a Dystopia is the author’s point of view. The difference between dystopia society and a utopian society is that a “dystopia is a world that should be perfect but ends up being horrible. Imagine dystopia as a world where the government gives everything to everyone for free. You would think it would be perfect, but imagine if that government oppressed everyone. Essentially a Dystopia is a utopia that has been corrupted.” (Levitas p1) A dystopian society is “Any society considered to be a undesirable, for any number of reasons. The term was coined as a converse to a Utopia, and is most used to refer to a fictional (often near-future) society where social trends are taken to a nightmarish extreme. Dystopias are frequently frequently written as warnings, or satires, showing current trends extrapolated to a nightmarish conclusion. A dystopia is all too closely connected to current day society.” As defined in The Giver (Telgan pp162-182). This is why I believe that Lowery is giving the reader a warring about how our world is changing. We have the power to stop it before it happens if we listen to warring signs and act accordingly. If we don’t listen to those signs our society will become a nightmarish environment, to live in. “ The Giver demonstrates how conflict can force us to examine our most important beliefs about what is right and true. Conflicts can change our worldly view of thing.” (Freidmane & Catadlo pp102-112)
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