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The Giver Which Is Better
A Utopia is better than a Dystopia

You will always have food and water, and a job with a family, and you will never get sick or injured and die because they would be able to heal you and fix your injuries and illness, also you will never be sad or depressed because you will get along with everyone. This is a utopia. Where everything is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong. First you will always have food and water, a job, and family. In a utopia everyone would be well nurtured never starving of food or water. You would have a good job that you loved and a family you are perfect with. In the family there would never be conflict everyone would get along perfectly.
In chapter 22 of the giver it says. "The word had been 'starving.' You have never been starving, he had been told. You will never be starving. Now he was. If he had stayed in the community, he would not be" (Lowry 172). In the community Jonas was never starving, but if he was in a dystopia he probably would have been starving multiple
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In chapter 14 of the Giver it says "'May i please have relief of pain?' He begged. It was always provided in his everyday life for the bruises and wounds, for the mashed fingers, a stomach ache, a skinned knee from a fall from a bike. There was alway a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance" (Lowry 109). This says that there is no illness and no injury. So the people never feel physical pain, and when they do it is for a very brief period of time so they never have to deal with it for long periods of time. Because of this they live in a utopia because they always feel good physically being able to never feel real pain like in a dystopia. Where if they were in a dystopia they would always feel pain, and have to recover unlike in the giver where everything is always made

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