The Giver: A Dystopia World

The Giver can be a dystopia world or it can be an utopia world. The fact that nobody has the memory of anything except for the Giver is sad. The people haven’t seen color, animals, feeling feelings and weather changes. Is there a reason why only the Giver or the Receiver knows what the real world is? What is everyone scared about? Why do they think that everyone needs the same? This book has a lot of questions to ask yourself, but no one really know what the answer is. That is why this book is unique and different than any other book I have read. This is why nothing is perfect if it is the same.
The Giver is a dystopia world because they can’t feel happiness or love or other emotions. I think that emotions help people relief their feelings. Nobody knows how to feel sad, hurt or happiness, they don't know how 10Nobody knows what feelings does to you and what it means. “‘Your father means that you used a very

generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,’ his mother explained carefully. Jonas stared at them. Meaningless? He had never before felt anything as meaningful as the memory”(Lowry 127). Because Jonas’s community can’t feel love, they don’t know how to use the word love. Jonas has experienced love and happiness, because the Giver gave Jonas the memory to feel happiness and love.
My second reason is everything and everyone is the same.

Everything is the same because Climate Control controls the weather, so that even the weather is the same as the day before. Everything is in black and white, and everyone has the same clothes or ribbons. “The little girl nodded and looked down at herself, at the jacket with its row of large buttons that designated her as a Seven. Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down at the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence”(Lowry 40). This quote explains that every age has different ways of buttoning buttons, and it teaches people lessons. In the community, they even require to have the same haircut. Another example is “Females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hairy and took on the more manly short style which exposed their ears”(Lowry 46).This quote tells us that every girl or boy has to dress the same as any other girl or boy. I think that difference makes everyone unique in their own

way.
Because the people get things chosen for them, they don’t know what independence means. In their community, their spouses, children, the child’s name and their jobs get chosen for them. Like in my first reason they can’t experience love or how happy it is to get your first job. “Like the Matching of Spouses and the Naming and Placement of newchildren, the Assignments were scrupulously thought through by the Committee of Elders”(Lowry 48). What if you don’t like your assignments. For an instance, I don’t think Asher liked his assignment. For example, “‘See you in the morning, Recreation Director!’ he called, dismounting by his door as Asher continued on. ‘Right! See you!’ Asher called back. Once again, there was just a moment when things weren’t quite the same, weren’t quite as they had always been through the long friendship”(Lowry 66). Some people don’t like things chosen for them. Some people don’t like their jobs. Independence prevents people from being different than other people and they can’t feel emotions.
Some people may think that The Giver is a utopia, but the people haven’t experience the dangers or the wonders of the world. They don’t know how to feel feelings or emotions or what independence really means.