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
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
Throughout his training, the Giver gifts Jonas with many good memories to offset some of the horrific memories. The memory of war in particular is too traumatizing for Jonas to handle, no matter how many good memories the Giver can entrust to him. For example, the passage describes, “From the distance. Jonas could hear the thud if cannons. Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant.
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
Jonas misses the way it was before he had memories where there was no pain or feeling, because everything was innocent. But he understands that although there was innocence nobody feels true happiness.Jonas thinks: “But he knew he couldn’t go back to that world of no feelings that he had lived in so long” (Lowry 131). Jonas wishes he could go back when everything was innocent and when he had no burden of pain, but although there was innocence the bad memories were stripped away to avoid the feeling of pain but also leaves everyone emotionless. But he knows it can never be the same again because of all the knowledge he gained from memories. He learns that memoires need to be valued, even the painful ones. Jonas feels that his community can change and things could be different. He thinks they should live in a world with memories. Jonas says: “Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colours [...] and everybody would have memories [...] There could be love” (Lowry 128). Jonas wishes that they could all have memories because everyone would be able to experience love. Love is one of the most important things in human life. He knows that there are bad memories, but without them, he wouldn’t be able to enjoy the good ones. Eventually, with his feelings
The word "dystopia" traces its roots back to the Greek word “dys,” meaning bad, and “topos,” meaning place. The government is never questioned by the citizens in a dystopian society. The people are either too scared to speak up against the injustices being performed in their society or become brainwashed. Bernard Marx from Brave New World and Winston Smith from 1984 are two different characters from two different dystopias. Both have been woken from the stupor of obedience their governments put them in and begin questioning their society. What they find is more dangerous, hopeless, and horrible than they could have imagined. Dystopian societies can be identified by the unique characteristics of its government by using examples from Brave New
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
A dystopia the darkest form of government, a utopia gone wrong, a craving for power, struggling for fewer rules. The dystopia is factual the worst possible form of a government. Its the struggle to be so perfect that it fails. There are typically two types of dystopias first a monarchy. A monarchy is a group of people controlled by a king or queen, and they make every last decision. What they want they get. A monarchy is typically born like this example from lord of the flies. “He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them"(Golding 58). This shows that a monarchy starts by one just taking over from the start rather than being a "team player." A communistic government is the opposite of a monarchy in life style but ironically is not in their governing body. They rule by having everyone as an equal, so no one is poor and few people are rich. They are seemingly alike in so many ways. Amongst the political spectrum there are two dystopian governments more alike than as difference, communism and monarchy.
When Jonas went for his apprenticeship he learned that memories would have been passed down to him from The Giver and the first few memories were kind and peaceful as shown on Page 96 of The Giver book, “ I’m going to give you a memory of a rainbow” This was a memory that Jonas didn’t experience and suffering in contrast to what’s shown on page 109 of The Giver Book “It was if a hatchet lay lodged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade”. Here Jonas describes how he feels due to the Memory. Because Jonas learned about what happened in the past, he understands a few reasons of why his community runs how it does, but also detest others that take out the fun of what used to be
Jonas’s community is a dystopia because there is no freedom of choice. At the end of December every
In chapter 19, Jonas has now made his plan to escape the community because he had just watched his father release one twin and keep the other. The twins were family but now one is dead. In addition to Jonas wanting love and wanting to search for it he had just witnessed his father, someone he had love for, kill/release a newborn. Jonas didn't have family love or love from anybody so that also influenced him to
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
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.
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