Examples Of Dehumanization In The Giver

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“The child wailed as its thin skin pulsed from the lethal injection “This is something that happened in the dystopian novel, The giver. The Giver is a wonderful dystopian novel, but what makes it so great? What turns it from a seemingly wonderful society to a dead wrong mess? The answers lay inside the community that withheld all the memories. According to my research, the first part of any dystopian novel is the element of dehumanization. Dehumanization is to take away something which makes a person human, commonly freedom, feelings, thoughts, and memories. The giver has this part spot on because of the part where they take their memories away, take their capability to feel, and even take color as well, this was all located in chapter 13.

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