The Giver Is A Dystopian
The Giver is an example of dystopian literature, because they don’t allow people to make their own choices. Differences were hated so much that they made them only see black and white. The elders don’t know anything about the real world like war or starvation. The elders control the people of the civilizations food rations. The elders live in a community where when you get too old, or if you don’t comfort yourself as an infant, or if you’re the smaller of twins, or if you want to leave then you are released (killed off).
The elders don’t allow people to make their own choices, which is utilized by the elders to keep the people under control. For example, when Jonas asked about why people don’t get to make their own choices, the Giver said, …show more content…
“He could make the wrong choices.” Also, when Jonas asked what it was like out in the world before the “utopia”, the Giver showed Jonas a memory about war. They control the food rations of people. For example people put out their food on their door step for the people who work as a food pick up person to pick up, and when Jonas was young and he said that he was starving instead of hungry so he was taken aside to have a stern talk about how, as long as he lived in the community he wasn’t starving and that he would never be starving.
Also I feel, The Giver is dystopic because people don’t know what really happens when you apply for a release, because even the people who inject babies, elderly, or kids with the needle feel no sympathy because the people don’t know what they are doing with the needles that contain the poison. The people are ignorant to color because color leads to choices, so all they see is in black and white. For example, Jonas was shocked when he and Asher, his best friend, were throwing an apple and for an instant it turned a color known as red or when Fiona, a girl Jonas likes, “...her hair looked different not the shape or length…” and when the Giver told Jonas that there were more colors and showed him a rainbow, “close your eyes be still now Jonas I’m going to give the memory of a rainbow.”.
Finally, the people can only get things at certain ages.
For example, at age nine you get a bike, at age twelve you get assigned a job, at age twenty you could apply for marriage, then if your twenties through thirties you could apply for one or two children, and when you are too old as an elderly you get a release party. No one has ever been out of the community except for the people who bring the supplies, but no one has ever been to the outside much less to another community, so when Jonas went to the house that was celebrating Christmas, a holiday that did not exist in the community, he was so happy because he had Gabriel with him and they were about to starve or freeze to death.
However, some people may argue that The Giver is utopian literature. This is somewhat true, because no one starves or is overweight. No matter what everyone is productive, but it is not because they kill the old, babies, or anyone who applies to be released. Those people being released don’t know that they are not going somewhere amazing but are being killed and thrown out in the trash. There are many more dystopian characteristics about this society. For instance, there are no choices. No one can even pick their favorite color, favorite food, or even the simplest of questions like what do I want to wear
today.
As one can clearly see, The Giver is an example of dystopian literature, because of all the problems, how they don’t know about war, or how they don’t even know about the sun. The people also think that they are helping people by killing them, because they don’t know that they are killing them. The elders are okay with this, because they have to know what is going on they made the rules. They can’t see colors and don’t even prepare their own food, so they can’t make a single choice for themselves. The reason behind them not making their own food is so they can’t leave the community. They follow a very strict set of rules for every little thing. They also take pills, so they don’t have regular human emotions. So, in conclusion, the facts point to The Giver being a dystopian literature.
The elders don’t allow people to make their own choices, which is utilized by the elders to keep the people under control. For example, when Jonas asked about why people don’t get to make their own choices, the Giver said, …show more content…
“He could make the wrong choices.” Also, when Jonas asked what it was like out in the world before the “utopia”, the Giver showed Jonas a memory about war. They control the food rations of people. For example people put out their food on their door step for the people who work as a food pick up person to pick up, and when Jonas was young and he said that he was starving instead of hungry so he was taken aside to have a stern talk about how, as long as he lived in the community he wasn’t starving and that he would never be starving.
Also I feel, The Giver is dystopic because people don’t know what really happens when you apply for a release, because even the people who inject babies, elderly, or kids with the needle feel no sympathy because the people don’t know what they are doing with the needles that contain the poison. The people are ignorant to color because color leads to choices, so all they see is in black and white. For example, Jonas was shocked when he and Asher, his best friend, were throwing an apple and for an instant it turned a color known as red or when Fiona, a girl Jonas likes, “...her hair looked different not the shape or length…” and when the Giver told Jonas that there were more colors and showed him a rainbow, “close your eyes be still now Jonas I’m going to give the memory of a rainbow.”.
Finally, the people can only get things at certain ages.
For example, at age nine you get a bike, at age twelve you get assigned a job, at age twenty you could apply for marriage, then if your twenties through thirties you could apply for one or two children, and when you are too old as an elderly you get a release party. No one has ever been out of the community except for the people who bring the supplies, but no one has ever been to the outside much less to another community, so when Jonas went to the house that was celebrating Christmas, a holiday that did not exist in the community, he was so happy because he had Gabriel with him and they were about to starve or freeze to death.
However, some people may argue that The Giver is utopian literature. This is somewhat true, because no one starves or is overweight. No matter what everyone is productive, but it is not because they kill the old, babies, or anyone who applies to be released. Those people being released don’t know that they are not going somewhere amazing but are being killed and thrown out in the trash. There are many more dystopian characteristics about this society. For instance, there are no choices. No one can even pick their favorite color, favorite food, or even the simplest of questions like what do I want to wear
today.
As one can clearly see, The Giver is an example of dystopian literature, because of all the problems, how they don’t know about war, or how they don’t even know about the sun. The people also think that they are helping people by killing them, because they don’t know that they are killing them. The elders are okay with this, because they have to know what is going on they made the rules. They can’t see colors and don’t even prepare their own food, so they can’t make a single choice for themselves. The reason behind them not making their own food is so they can’t leave the community. They follow a very strict set of rules for every little thing. They also take pills, so they don’t have regular human emotions. So, in conclusion, the facts point to The Giver being a dystopian literature.