‘Ordinary,predictable and painless’ The three flaws that are shown in the Givers society. The novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, presents a society that tries to preserve utopia by being the ‘perfect world’. In the community they are stripped away from colour, which shows that everyone is identical and will not be judged based on their appearance and colour which also amplifies their utopian society. Furthermore, the community also is required to use precise language when speaking so that they ensure that unintentional lies are never uttered, as well as it helps the elders to control the people in the community. In the Givers utopian society that avoids many of society ills, which includes hunger and poverty, the elders and only them uses series of technological advancements which controls the climate and flat terrain so that they can maximise the production of food and transport without hills, curves or hazard weather, also everyone in the community who is nine years or higher gets their own bike so that they improve air quality and everyone would have the same way of transport. …show more content…
" Our community can't function smoothly if people don't use precise language. "(Page 127) The use of precise language in the community has contributed to the creation of a non-human society which implies that the people function as robots and have no feelings. Jona’s parents don’t even know the meaning of love, they consider the term meaningless and too general. One of the many precise phrases they use is ‘release’, it is the community's substitute for death. In order to shelter the citizens from the frightening reality of death, the elders claim the released people go “Elsewhere,” a term that also refers to the land outside the
Utopia seems like a wonderful idea where everything is perfect and no one suffers. Three stories address this topic and show how even the best ideas have their downside. The Giver tells of a society where everything is the same and no one has to worry about making a wrong decision. Fahrenheit 451 tells of a society that bans book in the interest of preventing unhappiness. The society in Logan's Run is full of pleasure but only for 30 years. In practice though, these utopias present each of the protagonists with a problem where they question how perfect their perfect worlds really is.
Perfection. At least that’s what they think it is. In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the community is supposedly “perfect”, where no one knows the truth, except the protagonists, Jonas and The Giver. Jonas’ community is far from perfect and is a dystopian society. They severely punish people for breaking minor rules and in an unfair manner, they take important memories from the citizens, and most importantly they kill babies that don’t meet their standards.
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different 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.
“If the world was perfect it wouldn’t be” - Yogi Berra. A perfect world is different in everyone’s eyes because we all have different interests and you would have to make sacrifices. Lois Lowry makes this clear in her fantasy novel, The Giver. Unknowingly living in a utopian society, the main character Jonas is Assigned the important job of the receiver of memory in his Community. No one knows what this means, but he later finds out that he burdens the Community from painful and joyous memories of the past (our world). The Giver transmits memories from generations back to Jonas. The Community, apart from Elsewhere, is a world without conflict, inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice, and choice. Everyone
In order to preserve the structure of humanity, people must have freedom of expression, free will, and equality. Any attempt to create an utopia must respect, honor, and nourish these human needs; for without them the society will eventually become a dystopia. An analysis of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Giver by Lois Lowry, proves that any social structure that hopes to achieve utopia must insure that the citizens have their basic needs met, opportunities to pursue personal goals and dreams, and freedom to be unique.
The Giver provides a chance that readers can compare the real world with the society described in this book through some words, such as release, Birthmothers, and so on. Therefore, readers could be able to see what is happening right now in the real society in which they live by reading her fiction. The author, Lowry, might build the real world in this fiction by her unique point of view.
society, everyone wears the same clothes, follows the same rules, and has a predetermined life. A community just like that lives inside of Lois Lowry’s The Giver and this lack of individuality shows throughout the whole book. This theme is demonstrated through the control of individual appearance, behavior, and ideas.
In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the reader is left with an uncertain ending about what happens to the main character of the story, Jonas, and his little friend, Gabriel. The plot of a story usually ends with a resolution, where the conflict of the story is resolved; however, this is clearly not the case with The Giver. It is not possible to be completely certain on the ending of this book by reading this story alone; however, it is possible to gather the evidence and assume what likely occurred in the ending of The Giver. One cannot be sure on what happened at the ending of The Giver; however, I believe that Jonas and Gabriel did not survive. I also believe that there could have been a more effective ending to the story; I highly disagree with Lois Lowry’s choice of leaving it up to the reader to decide what happens in the ending of the story, for it leaves too many unanswered questions. Overall, I did not enjoy the ending of The Giver due to its ambiguity.
Lowry writes The Giver in the dystopian genre to convey a worst-case scenario as to how modern society functions. A dystopia is an “illusion of a perfect society” under some form of control which makes criticism about a “societal norm” (Wright). Characteristics of a dystopian include restricted freedoms, society is under constant surveillance, and the citizens live in a dehumanized state and conform to uniform expectations (Wright). In The Giver, the community functions as a dystopian because everyone in the community conforms to the same rules and expectations. One would think that a community living with set rules and expectations would be better off, but in reality, it only limits what life has to offer. Instead, the community in the novel is a dystopian disguised as a utopian, and this is proven to the audience by the protagonist, Jonas. Jonas is just a norma...
The book The Giver is a Dystopia because the people in their community have no choices, release and because the people don't know or understand what life is. The world in the beginning of the book seems like a utopia because how smoothly it runs but it actually is a dystopia because no world or place ever is perfect. This place or the givers world still has many flaws.
(Better Grabber) In the Harry Potter Series, the character Snape is a tragic hero. Just like Oedipus, he has too much pride in himself when he only helps Harry because his true love was Lily Potter, Harry’s mother. This later leads to his downfall when he ends up dying. Despite their good intentions, the two characters are blinded from the impact of their actions as they unknowingly harm their families. In the play All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Joe Keller’s blindness of the larger society and In the short story Oedipus The King by Sophocles, Oedipus the King’s arrogant attitude lead to his downfall. Joe Keller’s tragic flaw was more tragic because his flaw impacted more than just himself but it impacted other people around him.
The society in The Giver by Lois Lowry is fairly broken and messed up. Everyone inside the community thinks that everything is under control and they like living that way, because they don’t know any other way to live. To them they live in the perfect world, a utopia. To everyone outside of the community it is a dystopia. They are controlled immensely. There are a few reasons why the community is a dystopia, they have no choice or freedom, and they don’t know what color, music, real emotion, and feelings are.
Lois Lowry’s The Giver considers something the world takes for granted: personal empowerment. These simple day-to-day decisions create what the world is. Without self-empowerment and right to believe in a personal decision, what is the human race? The world can only imagine, as Lois Lowry does in The Giver. She asks: What if everything in life was decided by others? What if spouses, children, the weather, education, and careers were chosen based upon the subjects’ personality? What if it didn’t matter what the subject thought? Jonas, the Receiver, lives here. He eats, sleeps, and learns in his so-called perfect world until he meets the Giver, an aged man, who transmits memories of hope, pain, color, and love. Jonas then escapes his Community with a newborn child (meant to be killed), hoping to find a life of fulfillment. On the way, he experiences pain, sees color, and feels love. Irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing are three literary devices used to imply the deeper meaning of The Giver.
Imagine a world with no color, weather, or sunshine. The Giver is a book by Lois Lowry and is based on a utopia where no one makes choices, feels pain, or has emotions. The book takes place in a community where all of this is true. The story is about an 11-year old soon to be 12 year-old named Jonas who is unsure of which job he will get when he is 12. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.
Life is a very valuable asset, but when lived on someone else’s terms its nothing but a compromise. The seemingly perfect image of Utopia which combines happiness and honesty with purity, very often leads in forming a dystopian environment. The shrewd discrepancy of Utopia is presented in both the novel ‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry and the film ‘The Truman Show’ directed by Peter Weir. Both stories depict a perfect community, perfect people, perfect life, perfect world, and a perfect lie. These perfect worlds may appear to shield its inhabitants from evil and on the other hand appear to give individuals no rights of their own. By comparing and contrasting the novel ‘The Giver’ and the film ‘The Truman Show’, it can be derived that both the main characters become anti-utopian to expose the seedy underbelly of their Utopian environment which constructs a delusional image of reality, seizes the pleasures in their lives and portrays a loss of freedom.