Dystopian Society In The Giver By Lois Lowry

The society in The Giver by Lois Lowry is a community where everything is the same and no one is unique. The society seems like a utopia to some people but to me the whole world is a dystopia. My reasoning for this is that the communities themselves are a utopia but the rest of the world is ungoverned and chaotic, getting released is cruel and unusual punishment for the smallest of mistakes, and being the same as everyone else stops new ideas from forming.
My first reason is, most of the earth is covered by ungoverned land where anything could happen. That fact doesn’t mean that the communities themselves are not utopian societies, but the rest of the world is covered with land where no one is in control. Jonas is now outside community and is seeing wildlife for the first time, something that they had never been shown before. “Soon there were many birds along the way, shoring overhead calling. They saw deer; and once, beside the road, looking at them curious and unafraid, a small reddish-brown creature with a thick tail, whose name Jonas did not know” (171). Jonas is seeing animals meaning no one is in control in this land so you could do anything. Near the end of the book we see that conditions can be pretty rough

You may think that having ‘no feelings’ is amazing and no one would ever get hurt, but without those feelings they will never feel bad about what they are doing. In this time everyone has to share their feelings or emotions to each other. Jonas’s mother is sharing her feelings and she mentions that she is frightened for the man who might be getting released. “To see him brought before her a second time caused her overwhelming feelings of frustration and anger. And even guilt, that she hadn’t made a difference in his life” (9). They talk about their feelings every night, which is a good thing, the pills that the citizens take to stop ‘stirrings’ stop feeling so his mother doesn't exactly now what these feeling