Examples Of Dystopia In The Giver

What do you think of a world when you have to follow the same rules as everyone else and some decisions you cannot make on your own? The book "The Giver" is about a world with people who are equal and Jonas, the protagonist, has something that other's in the community don't. The novel "The Giver" is a society that appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopia as the story goes on. As a result, it is clear to see that the society in the novel has many similarties and differences with our world today. The world we live in and the world they lived in both are controlled by people. In the novel "The Giver" The Cheif Of Elders are who they are controlled by. They are the ones that gives out assignments to the elevens. In the book
when children turn eleven The Cheif Elders are the ones who assigns them their assignments. In our world we have a government. Our world has a governor. The governor heads the goverments excutive branch in each state. The world they live in has ceremonies when when a child turns another age and and they get to have different privillages as they go . When we turn another age we have a birthday party and we don't have to wear or get certain things. When a girl turns 7 she gets a special sweater. When we turn the age of 7 we get whatever our parents gives us. Everybody in their world likes when a child turns 12 sbecause they like to see what kind of job they have. In our world for our birthday we also get cake, cards, and presents. The world we live in and the world they live in both have places where cildren can attend such as nurturing center and childcare and we have a daycare. In the book the nurturing center is used for things such as after school. In our world we have a daycare it is something like childcare. Lily goes to childcare after school. In our world we have daycares kids can go to after school if their parents work late or something. In the world they live in the cannot see color or the cannot feel pain. In there world the can onle see black and white. As for Jonas he can see red. If anything painful happens to someone they wouldn't be able to feel it. The Giver took away color so that nobody made wrong decisions. In our world we can see color and and feel pain. We can see colors because when our eyes see things it sends messages to our brain. Every society is different and the same in many ways. Some decisions you cannot make on your own but you have to deal with it. Some people are equal and some people or different in many ways. "Now you can see how perfect the world works".