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The Giver: A Dystopian World
Imagine a place where you have no freedom, no choice, and forced to be the same.
This is a dystopian world. To me it’s also Jonas’s world. It has certain dystopian characteristics such as no right to choose, withholding information from the public, and the community is forced to be the same.
The people in jonas’s community have no right to choose is a dystopian characteristic. For example in The Giver it states ,” If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things.” therefore his life is controlled by what the council want not what he wants.
In addition, withholding information from the community is also a dystopian characteristic. In The Giver it states,” Your living arrangements

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