The Giver Utopian Analysis
Jazz Kunatirojana
Mr. Patton
English period 4
December 12, 2016
The Utopian of The Giver
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, started from twelve years old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopian. On his ceremony of twelve years old. Jonas has been chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, by the elders. Jonas gets all the memories of joy, pain, feeling, love, climate, and color because he is a receiver. He has been trapped for a long period of time, which make he wants to be free. This book proves that being perfect isn’t meant to be perfect all the time. The sameness, what the utopian Jonas lives in was based upon, has no real advantage to the community because there are no choice, no feeling, and no diversity.
Everybody in Jonas' community doesn’t feel anything at all and it’s going to be hard for them to understand. "It was your first Stirrings...you're ready for the pills...he swallowed the pill...the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone" (37-39). This quote shows that there are no feelings after a pill has been taken, no matter an old or young people, women or men. People take pills to control their feelings. " 'Love.' It was a word and a concept new to him" (125). When Jonas transfers the memory of love, he experiences all the feeling all over again by himself because he never used …show more content…
There are no choices, no feelings, no diversity. Those are key to success with the ability to live on their own. It will be hard to live without having any choice, diversity, nor feelings. Without feelings, it will be hard to understand other people. Without choices, it will be hard to choose anything in the life. Without diversity, there won’t be any taste in life. The Giver explains to Jonas what the sameness is. He says that snow was not practical, so it became obsolete when they went to the sameness. Even if snow was not practical, it still provides joy and happiness. It should be a right to have it, even though it is not
Mr. Patton
English period 4
December 12, 2016
The Utopian of The Giver
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, started from twelve years old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopian. On his ceremony of twelve years old. Jonas has been chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, by the elders. Jonas gets all the memories of joy, pain, feeling, love, climate, and color because he is a receiver. He has been trapped for a long period of time, which make he wants to be free. This book proves that being perfect isn’t meant to be perfect all the time. The sameness, what the utopian Jonas lives in was based upon, has no real advantage to the community because there are no choice, no feeling, and no diversity.
Everybody in Jonas' community doesn’t feel anything at all and it’s going to be hard for them to understand. "It was your first Stirrings...you're ready for the pills...he swallowed the pill...the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone" (37-39). This quote shows that there are no feelings after a pill has been taken, no matter an old or young people, women or men. People take pills to control their feelings. " 'Love.' It was a word and a concept new to him" (125). When Jonas transfers the memory of love, he experiences all the feeling all over again by himself because he never used …show more content…
There are no choices, no feelings, no diversity. Those are key to success with the ability to live on their own. It will be hard to live without having any choice, diversity, nor feelings. Without feelings, it will be hard to understand other people. Without choices, it will be hard to choose anything in the life. Without diversity, there won’t be any taste in life. The Giver explains to Jonas what the sameness is. He says that snow was not practical, so it became obsolete when they went to the sameness. Even if snow was not practical, it still provides joy and happiness. It should be a right to have it, even though it is not