The Giver Dystopian Analysis

“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up and decide things.”(Jonas) “It’s the choosing that’s mordant, isn’t it?”(Giver). In the Newbery award winning novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a future dystopian. In this society everything is the same and no one sees colors, feels pain, or make decisions for themselves. The idea of “sameness” is totally unfair. When you don’t get to have any choices, feelings, or personalities, it just takes the human out of humanity. By depriving citizens of choices, the creators of Jonas’s society made up rules for every community to follow and obey. The Elders made up simple rules that don’t allow people to make up their own choices such as choosing what clothes they want to wear. These Elders also took away colors from everyone, so that someone wouldn’t feel like they are different from everybody else. All of the communities don’t get the
Since they took these feelings away, the community members don’t know what being happy is or what death is or means. The whole community is also taken away of physical harm such as breaking a bone. The closest thing to having pain is getting skinned knees or jammed fingers. There was one instance where a Four named Caleb fell into a river and drowned so there was a Ceremony of Loss and a couple years later the family unit gained another baby boy also named Caleb. (56-57) Since the communities creators got rid of choices and feelings, the creators without knowing got rid of every person’s personality. People in our society today have all different kinds of personalities. In The Giver the people of the communities don’t have any personalities at all, for example: if someone fell down one might go and help them up instantly or one might laugh at them, but in Jonas’s society one wouldn’t know what to do so they wouldn’t do