The Giver: A Dystopian Society

The Giver is about a boy named Jonas, who lives in a dystopian society where the citizens of the community make no choices in their lives instead the communities leaders decide for them ( The Giver,Lois Lowry, 8,12,15)They believe that if they let people make their own decisions, they would make wrong choices, so the leaders think for the people’s safety, they shouldn't let them make them. If compared to our society, there would be many similarities of how they run the government but differences in lifestyles.

First, the government in both societies are run similarly but also have a huge difference. In The Giver, they elect a new chief elder every ten years (The Giver, Lois Lowry, 51). Similar of when we elect a new president every four
However, people in The Giver’s society are restricted from many that we have in our life’s. For example, In the Society of The Giver, they have climate control, so they don’t have rain, snow ,lightning, sunshine, or any kind of weather (The Giver,Lois Lowry, 84) .People don’t see color, so everyone is the same skin color (The Giver, Lois Lowry, 95). People aren’t allowed to use certain words when talking, they can’t be rude to other people, or lie ( The Giver, Lois Lowry,70). Last but not least, people are forced to take pills that make them not able to feel love, be attracted to someone else (The Giver, Lois Lowry, 38), which leads to one of the biggest differences between our community and The Giver’s dystopian society, people don’t make their own babies. Therefore, people in modern society compared to the people in this dystopian society are different because people in modern society live a free life without too many rules on how to express feelings with words, can enjoy weather, can make babies, and be attracted to other people, so people in today’s society experience more things than the people in The Giver’s
In the dystopian society, people don’t know about war so the society doesn’t have any conflicts with other communities (The Giver, Lois Lowry,134). People can’t be rude to each other so there is probably no fights, people don’t have many choices in their lives so they can’t make serious mistakes. And if a kid scrapes their knee or gets hurt while playing there is always medicine available to treat it (The Giver,Lois Lowry, 69). And with the climate control there isn’t any tornadoes or earthquakes to harm the community. They also don’t have cars, everyone has bikes, so there aren’t car accidents (The Giver, Lois Lowry,2) On the other hand in modern society there is a lot more ways to get hurt or die. Unlike The Giver, we deal with other countries, and terrorist. Also tornadoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters, destroy places, and sometimes hurt and kill people. Almost 68,000 a year."The Human Cost of Natural Disasters 2015: A Global Perspective."ReliefWeb. Web. 5 Jan. 2016. We also get hurt with the bad decisions we sometimes make, like do something dangerous. And, almost everyone in modern society owns a car, and nearly 1.3 million people die a year, on average 3,287 a day, in car accidents."International Travel, Road Crash, Pedestrian Safety, Country Road Condition." International Travel, Road Crash, Pedestrian Safety, Country Road Condition. Web. 5 Jan. 2016. In other words, The people