The Pros And Cons Of Living In The Giver

In The Giver their world is very strict. There are all kinds of rules and guidelines that everyone must follow. All those rules make it so there is no individuality, no choices, and no color. Imagine living in a world where everything was the same. Here is what things would be like.

The setting in the Giver is this community where the people inside are not able to feel or to have a choice of their own. Could you ever imagine yourself living in a world where you couldn’t be able to feel and have a choice of your own? Well, I really couldn’t imagine myself in Jonas’s position. Jonas’s society is very different compared to our society. One thing which is different from our society than Jonas’s society is that we can have feelings.

In the novel, The Giver, the author Lois Lowry presents a community where choices are limited to what the community leaders allow. The author believes that control over choices can secure one’s safety and allow the individual to be content with their situation. Some individuals will revolt against the community in an attempt to gain something better.

The Giver is a book with many important messages, and one message that I feel that wasn't conveyed as well in the movie is that freedom of choice is important, and we shouldn't take it for granted. The movie focuses on a lot more on the importance of memories.

I would not want to live in the society from the giver for many reasons. You are not allowed to make choices of your own. There are no colors in the society. There are no animals in the community.

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.

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.

In today’s society there are many authors who write dystopian novels. They write these novels to give knowledge and to tell how our world is very different from dystopian life. Lois Lowry shows readers how people can suffer in dystopian society. In The Giver, Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but in reality it is a dystopia because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom, dehumanization, and their strict regulations.

While The Giver has many themes, or the underlying message, one that stood out was the importance of freedom of choice. In the suppressive society that the book sets in, they lacked any and all choices that we have as a birthright. Freedom of choice is something that we don’t normally think about since it has come natural to us. The book, however, gives us a community that not only suppresses the freedom of choice but also lies to its people so they don’t know any different.

Imagine waking up one day, and all your choices are stripped away from you. You can no longer choice blue or red, up or down, one or two. Everything has been picked out for you whether you like it or not. The community in the Giver is a utopian society. All members have a clear-cut set of rules they must follow. The rules were made to get rid of pain and fix society’s problems. On the occasion of when the truth is revealed Jonas, a unique boy, questions society, and its motives. Personal choice is one of the most important things, even in the event that it may cause pain or suffering. Individuals within the community should have a right to pick their spouse, have their own children, and pick their careers.

Do you like choices? Would you like it more if you had decisions or if you did not. In The Giver by Lois Lowry there are no options and the members of the community follow the rules they created and call it sameness. There should be choice because choices can help you learn, if you did not have choice life would feel like having someone rule over you, and if there was no choice life would be boring and sad.

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

If you were to ever think about a utopia, The Giver would be the exact opposite of it. The Giver is the definition of a dystopia. It goes from being released, to living with no memories. The Giver is a dystopia because The Community releases people.

I can make a connection between The Giver and the society today. Today’s society is almost like the society in the book, but the only difference is that we make our own choices. In this quote, “But later it does matter, doesn’t it? We don’t dare to let people make choices of their own” (Lowry 124). The quote shows that the people of the town were not able to have a say in how they lived their lives.

One thing that would make The Giver community more positive is Choices. One supporting quote in on page 97, “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one? He looked down at himself , at the colorless fabric of his clothing. But it’s the same always.” This quote is helpful because the scientist made everything to sameness and they didn’t want anyone to choose what they wear. But if the community could see color then the people would have the freedom to choose what color tunic they want to wear and decide if they like it or not, and if they didn’t like it then they