Argumentative Essay On The Giver

First of all, I believe The Giver is a dystopia because you have no choices. In document E it states,” If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices!” This is significant because in Jonas’s society you have no choices. In document F it states that,” And Gabriel? For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. So there had not really been a choice.” This is significant because if Jonas stayed in the community Gabriel would have died and Jonas could not live with that.

Can a perfect society be perfect for everyone? The Giver is a novel that was written by Lois Lowry. She got the idea from her father who was suffering from memory loss. This made her think, what would it be like to live in a society where all pain was gone? And thus The Giver came to be.

Using Document A more as an understanding of what dystopia means, John Joseph Adams states, “For instance … a person who doesn’t enjoy reading or intellectual thinking might not care if books are banned … or even hunted down and destroyed … whereas you, dear reader, would probably care very much.” This means that if something in a “utopia” is taken away but others enjoy having it, you’re going to have a problem and it will be more like a dystopia or utopia. In Document E, while Jonas is talking to The Giver, he begins to realize that people need to be protected from choices. An exception for this is clothing. Jonas says, “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices!

The dystopian genre usually depicts the consequences of humans using power and control to create complete conformity within a population. It is usually represented to the audience as an oppressed society in which fundamental beliefs or technology is used to control the population. The dystopian genre is blatantly used in the book “The Chrysalids’ by John Wyndham and the movie “The Giver” directed by Phillip Noyce. Both literary works convey to the audience difficult and sad dystopian worlds. Within these worlds dehumanisation is very apparent with many basic human rights are stripped away from the population. Both worlds use power and ideology to control the population, with rules that the population must follow or face dire consequences

Having no choices would be terrible. If you had to live a life where you couldn’t choose a single thing, for example not being able to choose what you get to eat for lunch, you would end up going insane. They Don't even get to choose what they do for a living, I think that they don't understand choices at all, Jonas wishes he had choices but the giver says you can’t because then you could choose wrong. “‘But now that I can see colors, at least sometimes, I was just thinking: what if we could hold up things that were bright red or bright yellow, and we could choose? Instead of sameness’?

In this story a young boy named Jonas becomes the next receiver within his utopian society. The Giver takes place in a society with the government having a totalitarianistic approach to life where the Committee of Elders is in control. The society is like a heaven on earth; referring to the Garden of Eden from the religious perspective. At first look, The Giver is displayed as the perfect utopian society upon further inspection it is identified as rather a dystopian

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past” (Lowry 165). In this quote, the Giver expresses his dissatisfaction towards the black and white life of the community and the absence of actual living. One of the main reasons that citizens can’t see color is due to a daily injection that removes emotions and feelings. Colors bring about emotions in people and so the injection removes them. The injection can represent free will being taken away from the community. The absence of choice restrains people within the community from choosing their own jobs. Therefore the head leaders of the community assign them during a ceremony. Jonas is afraid of not being able to fit in an be a part of the community and thinks to himself, ”How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made” (Lowry 48). This interesting quote shows Jonas in the tight grips of a black and white life where his worries revolve around not being able to fit in with the sameness of the

The Giver is considered as a dystopian society because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom. An example of this is when the text states, “you're ready for the pills, that's all. That’s the treatment for the stirrings.” They can't even have independent thoughts. Medication is given to prevent

In the book The Giver, it tells the story of a perfect world. Everyone there is happy and feels no pain. As the story progresses, the society appears more and more dystopian as the main goal of the society is revealed, which is sameness.() The community is constantly observed and controlled by every aspect in their lives. The committee assigns jobs, housing, husbands, wives, and children. If found breaking any of these laws, people are “released”, an indirect term for murdering. When Jonas is 12 years old, he 's chosen to be the community 's Receiver of Memory. Once he enters into training with an old man called 'The Giver ', he begins to receive memories of the real world that the rest of the community is hidden from. As the giver begins to show Jonas the important memories, he learns not only of love and family, but also of pain, war, and all the unhappy

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Utopia because no one is ever starving, no one really feels pain, and they can’t choose wrong. Throughout our world I have seen many people on the sides of streets having no food, no home, and no family with no one helping them to have a better life. I have also seen people helping the homeless and shelters but in this book they don’t need to do that because everybody already has a home and food. Plus they don’t have to ask for money and food, they already have it.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

The final reason that I think the Giver portrays a dystopian society is their method of release. They may think that they’re sorting out good and bad, but what do they know? If they don’t know anything about love, why should they know about pain, suffering, death, and war? Everyone outside of the releasing room thought their dear friend was going Elsewhere… but the people inside that horrid room witnessed, or committed, the murder of innocents. There were no such things as identical twins; the lighter one would be killed. The people had no perception of death, for all they know that little baby, which just happened to be 3 ounces lighter than his brother, could really be going Elsewhere. Even if they’re traveling there through a garbage chute. Not only children were released though, as Jonas’ mother tells them it can happen to the middle aged too, “‘You know that there’s no third chance. The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.’” (pg.9). Some people were so ignorant on the subject that they used the word as a joke, like the speaker when the pilot flew over the town, “NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing…” (pg.2). Who wants to

    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.

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,