I think the community in Lois Lowry's book The Giver is a dystopia. This is because the people of the community cannot feel or understand emotion. In a world with no emotion there is no purpose because there are no feelings towards anything making life pointless. This community likes to portray itself as a simple utopia but if you dig deeper into its ethics there are quite a few large holes making it in fact a dystopia. Three contributing factors to this poor quality of are senses that are dulled at birth, the release of citizens, and people not really experiencing life.
My first reason to support this is that they make everyone color blind so they cannot choose for themselves based on color. "'I'm right, then' the giver said. 'You're beginning to see the color red.'" This is when the giver is figuring out how Jonas see's beyond. Imagine how Dull a colorless world would be, these people are denied their natural sense's which isn't right helping prove my point that the community is a dystopia.
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"he killed it! My father killed it! Stunned at what he was realizing." In the community if you mess up 3 times you will be released or if an infant does not meet standards it is released, old people as well are released when they reach a certain age in their house of the old. This isn't right. It doesn't give life a chance to thrive and people don't understand what is happening which is