Perfection In The Giver

Nothing is perfect especially not the giver’s society. The Giver’s main idea is It is better to be different than to be the same because nothing is perfect. In The giver the people of the society think the society is perfect but it is not.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

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.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

The Giver, his professor, shared all these past memories with Jonas. Moreover, Jonas founds the real understanding of perfection and imperfection, where no matter how hard you try, perfection doesn’t exist. Soon

The book The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a kid name Jonas trying to live in a so called perfect union. Jonas experience develops a theme over the course The Giver by teaching the reader for every action there is a consequence. Although some readers may believe that for every actions there’s not a consequence, Jonas’ experience shows that once Jonas leaves the community he suffers from starvation and also pain.

A true utopia requires sacrifices many people cannot condone. This fact has been shown throughout The Giver. The community decides to sacrifice many things to come to Sameness. Pain, individuality and love are among many things that they have sacrificed (Lowry 124). These sacrifices made the community Jonas lived in seemingly perfect; there is no hunger, no war, no pain, no one will ever be alone. But, a perfect community is completely unrealistic. That is why they have The Giver, the person that knows all the imperfections of the society and help the society to achieve perfection.

The novel, The Giver, is a utopian/dystopian fiction written by Lois Lowry. The main character, Jonas, lives in a perfect world. There is no war, fear or pain. By comparing and contrasting two seemingly different societies, one can determine that a utopian society cannot truly exist. While there are many similarities and differences within The Giver and modern society, some that stood out were the lifestyle, memories, and families.

The community in The Giver is that the people don’t have things that normal people like us do. That is because in the community of Jonas, there are a lot of rules for the people to stay safe but the people doesn’t know the memories from “Elsewhere” and they are never curious about the world that is outside their community. They are used to following rules, and doing the same thing everyday. They do have manners but they don’t know about the education they deserve, and they are all just like robots. The way that family life works in that community is that they are chosen in family units and they don’t have the feeling of love in their family. The people in the community don’t know what love is and they don’t have feelings that normal families have. In The Giver,

Throughout the novel, Jonas is faced with the obstacle of having to choose between his community and the lifestyle he is acclimated to and the truth The Giver has shown him. As Jonas begins to learn the beauty and pain of how the world use to be, Jonas sees and experiences even more conflicting matters in his not so perfect utopia. In the end, because of his contrempts, Jonas is able to make his decision to escape The Community and succeeds. Personally, I believe that this was the The Giver’s intentions in the first place: to put Jonas in those contradictory and challenging situations in the hopes that he would succeed in liberating the

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

So that's why I think a not perfect world is better. I think the Givers community is not worth living in. In the Givers community you are assigned a family unit. So that means you don't get to meet your real parents and grandparents! Therefore, you will never know who you truly are and Jonas seems to agree, “So there will be a whole part of your life which you won't be able to share with a family.”

The world in The Giver is not perfect because nothing can really be perfect. It is almost impossible to think of a perfect world, and if you do there will always be a flaw in one way or another to someone. The world can never truly satisfy the needs of everyone. As Hannah Montana once said, “Nobody’s perfect”, I guess she was talking about

Individuality is one of the key components of reaching the utopian standard. However, in The Giver, the community rejects the idea of individuality and instead focuses on developing Sameness, therefore initiating a form of control by allowing them to not express their own personality to shine, and alternately forcing them to contort into these soft putty-shaped beings with zero individuality at all. Conversations between Jonas and The Giver that occur throughout the novel informs the audience that the community lacks a sense of uniqueness and results in an absence of options to choose from.