The Giver: A Dystopian Society
The Giver is a book set in a utopian society, however as the story reveals it is apparent that it is in fact a dystopian society. By having no choices the people were protected from making the wrong choices. The people who first inhabited Jonah's community wanted to create a perfect society and this was their way of doing it. They took away everything that could possibly make anyone different, other then Jonah, he was chosen to be the receiver of memory. The only way it could be possible to conform everyone to the level of “sameness” is if you took all the memories from before the society was made and give them to one person. However this person does grow old and the memories have to be passed down in order to maintain the society. The efforts
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This means every person taking an injection that removes their ability to be different. This is normal for the people of this community because this is all they have every known. The injections are important to the society because it makes everything equal and takes away the all of their emotions, and feelings. It even takes away the ability to see color. All the colors that the citizens can see in the community are grey and white. Except for Jonas who starts to see other colors like red which first appears in his friends …show more content…
Without the memory of how painful something was; you can not enjoy the pleasure of something else. This is why both are taken from the community. Jonas realizes that there is something wrong in his community after he receives the memory of pleasure. He comes to the conclusion that if you can’t live with love and pleasure there is no point and even living. He tries to show his some of his friends in the community some of the joy that he had received through the memories, but since they had no memories of being happy it was almost pointless to even try.
The movie uses many symbols to drive a person's thought of how important a memory really is. The sled is probably one of the most important symbols. It bring the audience or person watching to a time the had in the snow or specifically sledding, and makes them realize how they felt. However at the end of the scene, Jonas falls off the sled causing him pain. He does not care through because of the fun time he just experienced sledding down the hill in the
This means every person taking an injection that removes their ability to be different. This is normal for the people of this community because this is all they have every known. The injections are important to the society because it makes everything equal and takes away the all of their emotions, and feelings. It even takes away the ability to see color. All the colors that the citizens can see in the community are grey and white. Except for Jonas who starts to see other colors like red which first appears in his friends …show more content…
Without the memory of how painful something was; you can not enjoy the pleasure of something else. This is why both are taken from the community. Jonas realizes that there is something wrong in his community after he receives the memory of pleasure. He comes to the conclusion that if you can’t live with love and pleasure there is no point and even living. He tries to show his some of his friends in the community some of the joy that he had received through the memories, but since they had no memories of being happy it was almost pointless to even try.
The movie uses many symbols to drive a person's thought of how important a memory really is. The sled is probably one of the most important symbols. It bring the audience or person watching to a time the had in the snow or specifically sledding, and makes them realize how they felt. However at the end of the scene, Jonas falls off the sled causing him pain. He does not care through because of the fun time he just experienced sledding down the hill in the