Compare And Contrast The Giver And Society

Is Jonas’s society different than ours? Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.

The Dystopian Societies “‘[Jonas’s society] relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.’ He thought for a moment. ‘We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others’” (Lowry 95).

The Giver Essay The society we live in is far from perfect, but is living in a society like in The Giver really ideal? While appearing a perfect utopia, filled with no worries and no problems, as you read deeper you reveal the true problems and how bad things have to be deep down, to portray a perfect world. Modern day society and The Giver society have many differences including rules, family, and jobs; however, there are still a few similarities between them. When it comes to rules, we practically have it easy.

“When you receive the memories, You have the capacity to see beyond.” said The Giver when he explained the job of being the receiver to Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. In the novel The Giver, the main character Jonas lives in a bland, boring community where everyone is the same. When he receives the assignment of being the receiver he realizes how disappointing the life he is living is once he gets memories from The Giver, of how life used to be. He lives in a society that is very different from ours in many different ways. Three main differences between Jonas’s society and society today are family, rules/consequences and colors.

Imagine living in a perfect society. No pain, everyone is equal, and perfect laws that every person follows. Now imagine being exactly like every other person with all your daily choices being made by someone else for you. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, this is exactly how they are living. The author writes about how Jonas’ perfect society is not so perfect after all. There is no troubles, pain and inequality but there is also no love, choice or individuality. Everyone is the exact same person. People need there differences to be who they are, otherwise what is the point in living if it means nothing special? Although an utopian society seems perfect with equality and peace, everything has its faults even in if considered perfect such as loss of individuality and choice as in societal ideas like birthday celebrations, being assigned a family and having others choose your time of death.

In The Giver, Lois Lowry shows her readers what it is like to live in a society with no diversity, no color, and no freedom. In this society, there is a twelve-year old boy, named Jonas, who finds the truth about life outside of his community. He does not have the option of choice, and he is stuck in a futuristic world of “sameness”. Jonas’ world is dull, and he wants to change it because it does not have the amazing features and opportunities that he learns about. In this story, Lois Lowry is warning her readers that too much conformity can lead to no freedom and no true happiness.

Stop, think about this for a moment. You are in a community that cannot see color, has no feelings, no choices to be made on your own, and no diversity between each other. How would you feel? Jonas, a twelve year old boy and the Giver have to live in this community knowing all this. As they live in this futuristic dystopian community they share memories of the past and what is elsewhere.

Jonas’s World Compared To Ours Jonas’s world is a utopia compared to our dystopia, but in Jonas’s world went to a dystopia, both our worlds have differences like how Jonas’s world has sameness everything is the same. But in my world everything different it 's not the same like Jonas’s world. In Jonas’s world has laws like our but his is more harsh than ours.

In the Giver people are not allowed to make decisions, the author does this to comment on our worry of mistakes. In Jonas's society people are not given choice in their life the Giver said this is because, “‘He might make wrong choices.’” (Lowry, 98). In the community

An unknown person once said, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” This quote is important when it comes to general organization, but what about the organization of a society? Should every element of humanity be controlled? This is the situation for Jonas’ community in The Giver. This utopian society is a solution for many problems in the world.

The giver by Lois Lowry- Analytical essay ________________________________________________________ What if we lived in a world of peace and equality? What if we lived in a world with no differences? A world with no social classes and inequality. That sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it?

Book and Movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. - Stephen King. What this quote is saying is that scenes that show up in the movie, will most likely show up in the book. But sometimes they could be totally different in what happens in those scenes. Throughout the novel and film color and dialogue had showed up. Colors, and dialogue are both a big part of the novel / film, but they are also different.The film version and the novel "The Giver" were similar in dialogue because in both they really affect how the people in the community react to situations that happen, and they were different in colors because this had affected how the people saw their community .

Instead of dealing with that pain, they cultivated a seemingly perfect facade and a seemingly perfect society. The problem with this is, nobody is flawless, even the protagonist of the novel. To make this society perfect, the weight of every struggle in the history of mankind was put on Jonas’s shoulders. But, the only thing that resulted from this was anarchy. From this I learned that although perfection is desirable, it is not attainable.

My first point is about how The Giver and how their beliefs compare to our world. My next point will be on how Jonas's community connects with many communities in the past and present to our world. The final statement I will make is how Nazi Germany and The committee of Elders worldviews compare. Jonas proves a true utopia is not possible. Rules are broken when Jonas thought he needed

Jonas’s society is a dystopia, but the government tries to mask it as a ‘perfect’ society only to be later revealed as corrupt. A perfect society can never be achieved, and trying to reach it like the Elders did in The Giver will always result as a dystopia. That’s what Lois Lowry was trying to show her readers through the book, if they keep trying to make their society as perfect as possible this will be the inevitable result.