The Giver A Utopian Society

The Giver is about two main characters, Jonas, and the Giver. Jonas is a young boy living in a “utopian” society in which everyone’s life is controlled by a group of elders. When people who live in the society become a twelve, they are assigned a job. Jonas expected to receive a normal job like everyone else in the society. However, he was assigned the most important and honorable job in the entire society, the receiver. He then undergoes training for his new assignment that opens his eyes to many things he never knew about his “utopian” society.

A “utopian” society is an ideal society, with no hunger, pain, war, suffering, or virtually anything bad that plagues the world today.“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” (Lowry) The citizens of an utopian society would never have to worry about anything. The novel The giver fits this description because the people in the book live in a society because they have all of the above aspects.. They live lives that are completely regulated by a group of elders, who make sure that everything in their life is a “perfect” fit for them.
In an ideal utopian society, there would be absolutely nothing bad. However, in the novel there is still a multitude of negative things. The number one negative thing being that people are killed under the pretense of being “released” to a far away place, this is of course also means there is still lying in the society. People are also not equal in the end, as there are elders in the society whom are above the rest of the society that make choices for the rest of the society. There was also mention of death within the society, which would not happen in a true utopian