The Giver: Similarities And Differences In A Dystopian Society

Although in modern-day society we can make our own choices, in The Giver society, they aren’t allowed to make any for themselves. In The Giver, their civilization is very controlling, they

Modern Day Dystopian Society Gaza Compared to Fictional Society The Giver In the movie,“The Giver” the citizens do not know how to process information, but ultimately living in this society would be better when compared to Gaza, where people understand the medical issues, proviety and the overall problems of their society. In the society in “The Giver”, the elders have taken away color, emotions and all the history of their society to create sameness.

Imagine seeing the world with no color and being told your future career. You have no choice in the Giver's society. There are many similarities and differences between our worlds. The Giver's world has a lot of rules that try to control the population. My society does not try to control the population but tries to protect the population.

The Giver delivers a motion picture of a dystopian culture that restricts their community from their freedom of choice. The social commentary found within this film can be identified as being having the freedom of choice taken by an authoritarian government and also how emotion takes a toll on many actions. For example, they’re stripped from their right quite subtly, in fact, the communities are unaware that there was once a society in which people chose to do what they did and were not told to do so or appointed. In the film, those whom were coming of age are appointed to certain jobs based on how they behaved in their childhood rather than choosing what they really wanted to be. A few other subtle restrictions include their curfew, what they are, what they wore, their family units, which they’re appointed too, and much more.

What is life without emotion? How does a life in a dystopian society compare to modern day life, more specifically, to Lowry’s novel (The Giver).In the Giver Jonas was selected to be the receiver and received most of the memories, but with all of the wisdom he had attained he realized that his society was wrong. To begin with, a dystopia is a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding, our modern society has equal opportunity and good jobs etc. For example a similarity between modern society and The Giver’s society is, both have school, a law system and Leaders (Elders).Another similarity is how the governments run, people know little about it. Another way they are similar is education while they learn less, they are grouped together until they are 12 years old.

The giver community is a dystopia. I know this because when you compare the giver community to our world it takes a minute but I guarantee it is a dystopia, you can see this because on the out side looking in, you know all of the secrets that make up the giver community. another reason it is a dystopia is because when people imagine a perfect world it is not anything like the community of the giver, lastly is the fact that the government plans out people’s lives. I will go into detail and make many other points in this essay about both sides of this question.

In modern society, the world is swiftly beginning to resemble a dystopian society. For instance, in The Giver Lois Lowry states, “We really have to protect people from wrong choices” (99). Jonas said this after he had an epiphany that if the community allows its citizens to make painless decisions than they will want to make more serious decisions. If the citizen decided the wrong job or spouse than it could have an extensive impact on the community. To protect people from choosing wrong the government will find a way to control society’s decisions.

In the story, the wise old man is the Giver. The Giver’s mind is filled with good and bad memories. He is in charge of holding the memories from the community to avoid pain or suffering. He is the only one that is allowed to break certain rules. His power cannot be “given” to anyone except for a special person selected by the Elders. Jonas is that special person, he is the “receiver of memory”. So, the giver’s mission is to “give” Jonas the power of receiving all the memories. Also, he must share all his knowledge with Jonas so he can become the new “giver” in the community.

While we have a lot of inequalities about gender, age and a lot of other things, the families in The Giver don’t have any inequalities in their families. Neither the men nor the women are looked down. The chores in the house are equally divided among family members. Both the parents are equally dominant as oppose to our world. With the rules, there is no privacy and the family members always have to be honest with each other in the family.

Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms and individualities—for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more obvious that the community is a horrible place in which to live. You as a reader can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes

Imagine a society with no pain, no worry. A perfect place. That would be the opposite of modern day society right? There's no freedom, no happiness, no love. There are very little similarities between the society in the Giver and modern day society.

The Giver is a dystopian-fiction book by Lois Lowry, that seems that it is a utopian society, it is actually dystopian, Jonas realizes that the Elders has taken away everyone’s freedoms and individual-ities, for the so-called common good of the community it becomes more and more evident that the community is a bad place in which to live. When Jonas realize how important they are, he could not take the fact that the people in the community are

|Caiden Herring| |Nov. 28, 2016| |1st hour| While All societies can't be perfect, the giver is beyond not perfect. The Giver is the definition of a dystopia. If you think about it really, is there such thing as a utopia? Or is it just a dystopia? Think if you were in the society Jonas lives in, how would you respond to the government's way of keeping the society safe?

In the book “The Giver” it is trying to keep their community like a utopia. They are trying to accomplish this goal by keeping it in “Sameness”. An utopia is a world where there are no problems ( that is what the community is trying to be ) and an dystopia is a world made up of rules ( world,place,town anywhere people can live ). To me, I say that instead of it being utopia where everything is perfect and people have the right to make their own choice, it is an dystopia. Here are my reasons why I say it is a dystopia because they do not have the right to live the way they want,they live in a world that is ruled by rules ,and you have to be a certain age just to do something.

The family situation is quite different in both novels. The members of The Giver community have a structure quite like ours. Each family unit has a mother, father, daughter and son. In Huxley’s novel, each person lives alone in an apartment. They have no spouse or child. The only partners they have are their temporary sexual partners. It is discouraged for them to have one partner for a long period of time. Birth in both societies is significantly dissimilar. Birthmothers, in Lowry’s novel, are the only women that give birth to children. They do not get to keep the child, or even see the child. These children are then sent to Nurturing Centers, where they spend one year before being sent to live with a family. In “Brave New World” there is no woman that sits through a nine month pregnancy. All babies come to life at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The lower caste systems, Gamma, Delta and Epsilons, undergo the Bokanovsky Process. Most of the women in the society are freemartins and they are required to use the Malthusian Drill, which is a form of birth control. Similar to how the “Brave New World” community members are conditioned to