Persuasive Essay On The Giver

It is known that most utopias have not been successful, and have failed miserably.
Do you think utopias can successfully be sustained throughout their time? Here are some reasons why it would be challenging and they most likely would not be able to. They would not be able to be successful because of human nature and desires. Here is a quote from page 37 in the book The Giver, “He swallowed the pill that his mother handed him.” It supports my claim because the reason Jonas had to take this pill was because he had dreams about a girl that he wanted to see naked and the community doesn’t allow those dreams, so he had to take a pill so they would go away. And because of human nature I don't believe that lots of people would take those pills because they want to like who they like not who

Then another quote that it states from an article called 4 utopian communities that didn’t pan out is, that people in utopias don’t know how to act in a utopian environment. This would have a negative effect on the community because people tend to like to do their own thing, and if people don’t follow the rules in such a small little community it would be total chaos. Lastly a quote from an article called Brook Farm Community is, they let young people (Out of a sense of humor) slaughter the animals which led to a lot of people leaving the community, and because of all of the violence people would still do it and it would not be a successful community. Another reason why the utopian communities would not work out is because some communities have bad rules that people can’t live with, and people that take advantage of others and don’t put in the extra work to do anything to help. The beginning quote of evidence to support this belief is from article 4 and is, a group of 11 adults and a small number of children were forbidden to eat meat or use any animal products such as honey, wool,