What is more valued - personal rights or the common good of the community? In The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry‚ a boy perfectly adapted to his unique community named Jonas begins to open his eyes‚ sees the reality of his world‚ and searches for the true values in life. In this community‚ the citizens want to live a simple‚ predetermined life and also strongly believe that they are living in a “perfect” society through the system of sameness which eliminates risks. However‚ they do not have any knowledge
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pay and in ‘The Giver’ the price is definitely too much to pay. Therefore‚ the ‘community’ is definitely more of a dystopia opposed to being a utopia because everyone behaves as if they are incompetent of feeling‚ emotion‚ all civilians of the community have limited prerogatives and limited decisions which they are allowed to make and the fact that differences are not tolerated leans the ‘community’ towards a dystopia as opposed to utopia. However‚ the largest price which the community has payed by
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feelings. It sounds terrible. The Giver is a book about a community that people in the community do not have to be worry about anything. In other words‚ they never experience the joy of life and success. Jonas’ community is a strict community to avoid negative emotions. However (TRANS)‚ there are many things that citizens are not allowed to do by themselves. The purpose of this paragraph is to contrast the Jonas’ community to our community. First of all‚ in Jonas’ community everyone lives by the community’s
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Lily Jones Mrs. Valderrama ELA8H 29 November 2015 America versus Dystopia Just imagine a world where everything was the same all the time. Every day‚ the weather as plain and ordinary as the clothes you wear. This is the world perceived in The Giver. The Giver is a story of a boy named Jonas living in a dystopian society where everything is the same; the people‚ the homes‚ the weather. Though they have eliminated all fear‚ pain‚ war‚ and hatred‚ they have also eliminated choice. But when Jonas
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The Giver‚ a novel by Lois Lowry that gives you that hopeless‚ dreadful feeling of “I wish I could tell you‚ but I can’t. I can’t tell you why I can’t either”‚ explores the idea of a utopian community entirely run by a secretive higher power- one so secretive that the very concept of death is not common knowledge. In fact‚ the Elders (the higher power) gave death another name- release. The story follows Jonas‚ a “unique” boy who gradually learns that his immediate world isn’t as simple and perfect
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Risks And Choices Have you ever thought of a dystopian community well there’s a reason why they never work out there is always a hero who choices to take risks and to fix the secret problems behind these types of community’s. First escaping he made so many choices like getting Gabriel and saving his life‚ and making choices about the community that could help everyone. He was also able to forget about himself like when he snuck his way out of town risk everything trying to give his friend and
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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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Dystopia Dystopia is often a society set in the future that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state‚ often under the control of some form of government but not always. A dystopian society can also be a planned structured society in which the conditions of life are deliberately made miserable. Some examples of these can be characterized by poverty‚ oppression‚ violence‚ disease‚ scarcity‚ and/or pollution for the benefit of a select minority or some unnatural societal goal. I am going
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Imagine a community where there is no love‚ sadness‚ anger‚ color‚ choice and everyone is suppose to be the same. In the book‚ The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry‚ a 12 year year boy named Jonas‚ goes beyond his community. Jonas lives in a false bubble of reality-quite different from ours. The town‚ is literally called‚ The Community‚ which infers positive aspects of social life. However‚ what is hypothesized is a very unhealthy place because community leaders promote sameness‚ lack of emotion‚ and
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In Lois Lowry’s The Giver the people of the community gave up person freedoms to achieve a utopian community where everyone was equal. Freedoms given up where pick your job‚ pick how many kids want‚ and individuality. But when became the Receiver of memories he change the community’s future. Picking your job was given up so each job had an equal amount of people. Also each job had an equal amount of help. This was not worth it‚ because if the people were not good at their jobs it wouldn’t be fun
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