Elements Of Communism In The Giver

Communism is the idea of everyone being equal and being tolerant of each other in a society and having organization. The exact definition of communism is “a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.” The Red Scare was the fear of communist. During the time of the Red Scare people who

The real world and The Giver have many differences but also have some similarities. There are many laws that are different but same in many ways. Also The Givers traditions are very different from ours but The Giver is someone’s utopia and someone’s dystopia. The real world is also someone’s utopia and someone else’s

Have you ever wondered if there could possibly be a community where no one has any idea of normal everyday things? Well then the Giver is just one example. The Giver has a long history, and it all started with Lois Lowry’s dad and how he forgot his memory of any bad thing and Lois Lowry started thinking what a Community would be like without any painful memories and she came up with The Giver. The Giver revolves around a young boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory which is the highest honor in his community. While Jonas is training he gets all of the memories that everyone else in the community has and then starts to think why can’t other people have these memories he then comes up with a plan to escape the community

One of the greatest commandments written in history is “Thou Shalt not lie.” From a young age we have been taught of the negative effects of lying. We are taught, as toddlers, not to cheat on tests and punished for our dishonesty when caught. But as we grow older we discover that lying is not as terrible as we were raised to believe. Sometimes lying is safer than the truth. Lying helps us to protect the well-being of family and friends. Deception and secrecy are two major themes of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. While being dishonest is against the rules in The Giver, the survival of the community is dependent on deception and secrecy. Lying is written into the daily lives of the people of the community, and used so commonly that people are not aware

What we desire, and we need has a very clear distinction. Desires may not increases the chances of survival, but what we need is it self our survival. The things we try to obtain may include,independence,rights, and most importantly freedom. Freedom is only obtained for our enjoyment but is it really what we need? A certain movie revolving around this very subject answered my question, the movie was called “The Truman Show”. The segment that really caught my attention was the first scene that showed the director of Truman’s life talking about the perfect world that be home to Truman for the rest of his life.Truman lives perfectly happy with no Freedom,Rights,and independency. Truman still sought his freedom and escaped the artificial world he was in. Why would we face the dangers of the world if given the choice. So I thought, why would we still want Freedom anymore. That was when I realized, the best way to live life, is to live in detainment.

“ Climate control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times.” Climate control may sound like a brilliant idea but it isn't as successful as it sounds. Climate control was used in Jonas’s world to stop things like snow, because snow made travel and agriculture difficult, but in today's world climate control isn't as successful as it is in the Giver.

The Giver is a novel that is set in a society that strives to be a utopia. A utopia is essentially a is “a place where no one has to make a decision, feel pain or even have a negative thought or a bad memory” (Goepfert). In The Giver their community focuses so intensely on this concept of a peace that they make many sacrifices in their pursuit to obtain it. This includes the loss of emotion, lack of individuality, deceit of the public, and a great burden on a small few. Ultimately the cost of this utopia is too high for this society.

Firstly, I would point out that the community in “The Giver” has a lot of resemblance with the political ideology we call communism. When we look at the history of the word, Karl Marx’s ideology has been an inspiration to a lot of political party’s throughout the centuries, for instance communism. Communism builds on the idea that everyone is the same and should earn the same amount of money regardless of their profession. The most important with communism is that there should not be any class distinctions. China, Laos, Cuba and Vietnam

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? In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver that is the reality. The catch? The catch is freedom. There is no room for being different, no room for spontaneity, no room for experimentation and breaking the rules. If you break the rules you will be caught and their is no room for forgiveness. Also, if you are diagnosed with a disease, or just simply sick, you must likely will be released into the “elsewhere” world.

The society Lowry depicts in The Giver is a utopian society; a perfect world as envisioned by its creators. It has removed fear, pain, famine, illness, conflict, and hatred, all things that most of people would like to eliminate in today’s society. In this utopian community, major problems are rare, only minor problems such as scraping your knee would happen. Even when this would happen there would be medications sent to them. In Lois Lowry’s award-winning novel, The Giver, Jonas’s society is considered to be utopian because the society has an overall sense of sameness, organization, and minimal problems.

This paper aims to compare and contrast the similar themes of “The Heart of the Salamander,” focusing on the dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury published in 1953 to the 2014 American science fiction film adaptation, “The Giver.” Moreover, the paper reiterates the post-apocalyptic and post-modern theme.

1.The arrival of a jet might be a terrifying experience for the entire community because they do not see jets very often only when a cargo plane is dropping off supplies. It also might make it more terrifying for the community because nothing unordinary ever happens so they are taking the jet very seriously and making sure everyone goes indoors.

Communism in theory seems perfect, but in practicality it remains only a theory because there remains no feasible way to accomplish it. A person/people will always possess more power than the rest, yet majority of people believe it could solve some of the most horrendous problems the world faces; however, true equality in a society exists in hypothetical and ideological scenarios. True equality represents equality based on everything humanly possible, which means physical characteristics, education, and income. Kurt Vonnegut conveys that true equality within a society refuses to survive and only exist in hypothetical discussions via the use of setting and imagery in Harrison Bergeron.

It is based on the principle of equality of all citizens and on the power to the people, but these principles are not completely fair with respect to the citizens, and more importantly, they do not work in developed societies. Equality of all is magnificent in principle; nonetheless, it would not be fair, since it does not take into account the principle of meritocracy. Under Marx’s communism, people will not be rewarded for their merits, but everyone will have the same opportunities and enjoy the same benefits. The equality of opportunities that Marx suggests is moral since everyone should have the same opportunities to receive a good quality education, to be able to apply for a good job and receive adequate health care. However, in certain fields as labor, people should be able to succeed thanks to merit, not thanks to equality or recommendations. The best individual should be allowed to achieve the highest rank in his job; this achievement should not be equally reachable by the laziest workers. Moreover, since workers do not have an incentive to demonstrate their abilities and their intelligence, equality would make people stop working efficiently, and so the society would slow

To make life desirable, happiness and helping others has to be present. In The Giver the utopia contains people that have necessities for thriving and have kindness (Lowry). Everyone can enjoy the journey of life with people that do not hate each other, but they will always help to make everybody worth it. In Haiti 59% of the population lives on less than $2.42 a day (Brown & Smith). Without much money to survive from the hurricane, the community is torn apart. Everyone in the community is struggling to help and stay happy because of the massive destruction. Also, The Giver states that the elders are in charge of the community so no one is being treated unfair (Lowry). Nobody in their community feels not wanted