Many readers try to decide whether the community in The Giver is a utopia or a dystopia. After reading The Giver and learning the characteristics of utopias and dystopias I have come to the conclusion that Jonas’s community is a dystopia because of the lack of color‚ the existence of sameness‚ and the very controlling government. First of all‚ Jonas was introduced to color completely in chapter twelve. By taking into account the fact that before he was assigned his job Jonas could not see color
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The Giver There are many similarities between the book Giver and the movie Giver. The movie and the book had the Giver stay back to help everyone in the community like he trained Jonas to be the next receiver. The book and the movie both have Gabe staying at the Jonas house in the beginning of the movie and the book. In the book Giver and the movie Giver Jonas had the same rules to follow in his job of being the Giver. In both the book Giver and the movie Giver everyone chanted the person’s name
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Imagine a world where people could not do certain things. These are all traits of a dystopian empire‚ which Jonas’s community represents. In The Giver the community is under constant surveillance‚ they can not say certain words‚ and everybody is the same. In the book The Giver the community is under constant surveillance. In the middle of the book it states that Jonas did something he was not supposed to do with the apple‚ so the speakers went off instantly. Knowing this‚ Jonas was under constant
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Have you ever heard of a book or movie called the Giver? Well if you haven’t heard of the Giver it is a confusing story at first until you fully understand what the author is trying to tell you. Also‚ the name of the book has a meaning to why it is called that.The Giver is a book that can change your mind on how you put the world out to be. In the world that has no feelings‚ colour‚ or even a real biological family. In our world we have feelings‚ colour‚ and a family that is ours. They cannot
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In the book The Giver‚ there are all these different rules of the community to prevent people from doing the wrong or bad things‚ but in all the rules‚ there are always positive ones and negative ones. So comparing to the real world and to the community‚ what rules from the community should we learn from? According to the book‚ Pilots cannot fly over the community‚‚ Each person in a family must share his/her dreams in the morning‚ and in the evening‚ his/her feelings of the day‚ There can only
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”why did colors disappear? our people made the choice to go to sameness.” This is what everything would be like if we choose to go to sameness you need to see how different it would be for us nothing would be the same anymore everything would change. What if we could live in a place of sameness what would it all be like no one will be made fun of and everyone would be nice to each other but it might not be as good as it sounds things might not turn out how you would like them to be. In the givers
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In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas lives in an imperfect world. His community is a dystopia. According to the text‚ utopias and dystopias is a term used to describe a utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Jonas’ community is a dystopia because of the lack of knowledge‚ sameness‚ and complete control. Jonas’ community has a lack of knowledge. The Receiver of Memory only knows the past. Families can only have 2 books‚ while The Giver and the Receiver of Memory have a whole library
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Morrie’s ideas raise up a lot of questions. What makes an emotion? How are we able to feel emotion? It makes me think of The Giver by Lois Lowry. In The Giver is a society where all emotion is eliminated‚ meaning that humans cannot feel emotion. It’s very interesting to compare how emotion plays a huge role in both stories. Morrie is someone who has felt sadness‚ pain‚ and grief‚ yet people in The Giver never get to experience those emotions. I think Morrie is trying to tell Mitch to detach himself
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In The Giver‚ a science fictional novel by Lois Lowry‚ a boy named Jonas lives in a dystopian society. The society Jonas lives in is supposedly utopian society‚ a society that seems perfect. Jonas becomes the Receiver and he gets memories of what the world was like before his community. He notices that his community is actually the opposite of a utopian society‚ but that it is a dystopian society. Through all of his memories and time with The Giver‚ Jonas notices that he lives in a dystopian society
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This summer I read the book “The Giver” and I picked three rules that organize the society. The elders created this system to have control over everything and everyone. Some alternative ways of coping with these issues is not being so controlling over peoples basic rights but have a more serious way of dealing with these issues. In the book The Giver there are many outrageous rules in their Community like "Two children--one male‚ one female--to each family unit." (p. 8) A year or so after the
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