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    The giver is about a perfect community. A community where nothing bad happens and everybody is the same. In the community there is a boy named Jonas. Jonas has been selected to be the Receiver Of Memories. Being the Receiver is a great honor because you have to keep all the community’s memories and learn about what used to exist in the community. A utopia is a place where everything is perfect and nothing bad happens. A dystopia is the opposite of a Utopia because it is a place where everything is

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    In the novel The Giver‚ Their community is represented as a Dystopia because‚ Everything is controlled. In a Utopia everything is not controlled and is perfect. There are many reasons why his community could be a dystopia. I have three reasons why Jonas’s community is a dystopia. So‚ Just how much it is controlled‚ Everyone is restricted and supposed to do a certain thing. In the book kids are supposed to get rid of their childhood toy at a certain age‚ Then donate it to someone else on the

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    Trang Le Antarctica – March 10‚ 2010 The Giver Essay Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic‚ dichotomous society‚ one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world‚ the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia‚ but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved

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    or Dystopia Imagine a place without hunger‚ fear‚ pain‚ or fighting; that is a utopia. A utopia is an idea of a perfect society without faults or blemishes. Now imagine a world that is filled with pain‚ starvation‚ terror‚ and war; that is a dystopia. A dystopia is an idea of an unpleasant and disaster filled society. The Community in The Giver is a utopia because they want to keep people safe from war‚make sure everyone can have food‚and keep them safe from illnesses and pain. The community in

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    book The Giver is a dystopia. It is a dystopia because you get your bike at 12 years old‚ they kill small children‚ and they can’t leave the community. Children in The Giver receive their bikes when they are twelve. I think that is too old.I think you need to get your bike it eight years old.Because if you get your bike at 8 you can practice. So when you get twelve you will know how to ride your bike to where you need to go. So you need to get your bike taller than twelve. In the b community you have

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    Why is it always assumed that the community in The Giver is imaginary? A form of it exists in real life. Jonas‚ a seemingly ordinary boy living with his parents and sister‚ finds out that the community where he lives is not at all what it looks like‚ leading him to take an extraordinary journey. Due to the existence of all-controlling governments‚ the real world is not completely removed from the dystopian worlds of The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four. People living under a Marxist-Leninist

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    "We fear rejection‚ want attention‚ crave affection‚ and dream of perfection‚" said Anonymous. The community in Lois Lowry’s The Giver wants to have perfection — a utopia — and they have achieved it. Their ideal society has citizens that never had the pain of war‚ never had to go hungry or homeless‚ and consequently‚ they never have experienced any emotions. Jonas has grown up in a community without memories of pain‚ poverty‚ and war. Growing up without these memories‚ the community’s citizens

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    humanity has strived to reach it’s musings of a world without flaws. In the novel The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas’s reality appears to be the utopia our society longs for‚ but it’s beauty is only skin deep. At first glance‚ these two civilizations have nothing in common‚ but once you delve into their details‚ eerie similarities appear causing the reader to feel that we are on our way to becoming the dystopia we fear. Granted‚ we have far to go before we become that‚ there are some parallels that

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    Assignment Sheet: The Giver Persuasive Essay Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver describes a society in search of perfection‚ which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling‚ among other things‚ would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings‚ the creators were able to implement Sameness‚ which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

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    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 surveillance that day. In addition‚ the community in the book is very strict about

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