The Giver society isn’t perfect. I would not want to live in the society from The Giver.The three reasons I wouldn’t want to live in the giver society is the society has strict rules, the society makes decisions for you, and there isn’t much nature or any animals. The first reason I would not like to live in The Giver society is the society has strict rules. For example,“The children all received their bicycle at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.” (PG.14, P.4). The society has a strict rule that kids under nine are not allowed to ride bikes. Another quote is, “Two children-one male, one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.” (PG.10 P.2). In the rules it states that a family unit needs to have a certain number of kids and a certain gender. Lastly,“It was one of the rituals, the evening telling of feelings.” (PG. 6 P. 6)I wouldn’t want to tell my feelings to my family if they are very personal and I can’t explain them. The second reason I would not want to live in The Giver community is the society makes decisions for people. “That’s the treatment for stirrings.” (PG.36 P.7)In our world people get “stirrings’ all the time, in the giver society they would make you take a pill so the stirrings would go away. On page 92 …show more content…
Jonas’s had been called a bear.” PG.19 P. 5. In the real world bears are real but The Giver community doesn’t know that there is actual animals. On page 91 it states, “Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow” (PG. 91 P.9). The Giver has to give Jonas a memory of a rainbow because he doesn’t know what it is. “You don't know what snow is do you?” (PG.75 P. 8). Jonas or anyone in the community doesn’t know what snow is because everything is climate
The first reason why the community in the book The Giver should be given personal rights is because the inhabitants of the community could learn from their mistakes. Without any personal rights they cannot make their own decisions; if they don’t make their own decisions they cannot learn from their mistakes that their decisions had led them to. On page 98 in The Giver Jonas stated that “What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?” This tells the reader...
Even though both the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry and modern society are both unique in their own ways, our society is a better society to live in. Our society gives us more freedom to choose for our own benefits and
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.
The society in Lois Lowry’s book The Giver is like a freshly printed newspaper every page is crisp and clean, but when a page is crumpled or stained the only solution is to remove it. Problems in the town are created and solved by the same cause, euthanasia. Euthanasia, in the book, is used on multiple types of people; the young who would create problems for the society; the old; and anyone who threatens the order and structure of the place. The leaders euthanize people to protect their community. Usually in situations where many suffer and only one or few benefit, it is whoever is in charge that gets blamed, but since the rulers of the society are just as unaware as the people, it is the creators of the society that are at fault.
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.
Throughout history, there have been times where society has tried to improve itself by forcing its members to conform and live in unison. This, however, did not turn out to improve that society but only make it worse. People did not seem to learn from that as now there is still a pressure to conform to the ideas of society. In the movie The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce in 2014, audiences are able to see how society is pressuring those who live in it by using dramatic irony and flashbacks.
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.
The Giver presents a community that appears to be perfect on the surface. Jonas's community is free of warfare, pain, sorrow and other bitterness we suffer in our society. The world seems to be secure and undergoes little conflict. Such a community seems flawless and is the idealistic society that we longed to live in. However , through Jonas's training, the imperfections of the Utopian community are revealed. The community allows little individual freedom and choice. In allowing only one person, the Receiver, to bear the memories of the world, the community frees itself from suffering and conflict. As a result, it gives up the ability to experience true feelings, passion, individual privacy, freedom and knowledge. To maintain the community's order, strict rules are applied to the inhabitants. "Releases" ( a less offensive term for kills) are performed to the citizens who jeopardize the stability and peace of the community. The inhabitants' careers and spouses are chosen by the Elders (or government).
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
In The Giver, the members of the community must give up choice in order to obtain perfect harmony with each other. I believe that, in a well ordered universe, all communities should be living in peace. Peace is almost essential to happiness. Although I feel that unity is important, I would argue that this trade is extreme.
The community in the giver has no freedom, they are controlled by everything. They don’t know the true meaning of choice. They wake up to live another plain day with no choice. They don’t know what the feeling of choice is. They don’t
Have you ever wondered why the world we live in isn’t a Utopia? The community in the Giver was destined to fail because of the lack of truth toward the citizens. Some evidence for this statement comes from the short story Harrison Bergeron, where characters like him find flaws in their community. Another story to back up the statement is from Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, evidence from here shows that people think of differences as a bad thing. The last article that provided evidence was a article on Genetic Engineering, this shows that there are always a con to a pro.
The community in The Giver is definitely a utopian society. The town, surrounding structures, and people of the community have very few flaws which make them cold, calculating, and logical. The people of the community cannot comprehend feelings, which makes the community’s value worthless in the eyes of someone who can remember and feel emotion such as the reader, The Giver, and Jonas. For all the other inhabitants, the community is a place where they hardly ever feel pain, or anything that can cause them harm in any form( both mental and physical ) .The community was made into a paradise by taking away emotion and choice, thus creating non-feeling, color-blind, shells of what former humans once were.
When asked why Lowery used a dystopian society she stated, “ I chose the setting because I wanted to give the reader a warring that society will never be perfect.”(Lowry) If she would have chosen a different setting the book I do not believe the book would have been the same. Lowry stated, “that when writing The Giver created a world that existed in her imagination only. She got ride of all the things she feared and disliked: violence, prejudice, poverty and injustice.
What makes the book The Giver a utopian society? The Giver’s society is a utopian society because of how cautious the elders are in the book that nobody chooses or does anything that might make the people different in the society. What the elders are thinking is that being different can lead to violence. They make the people in the world feel like they have no feelings at all. The people in the society can’t see color so there wouldn’t be