Examples Of Dystopia In The Giver

North Korea is a dystopia. The citizens believe their community to be perfect, like a utopia. The community in Lois Lowry’s The Giver is also a dystopia to help people understand these types of societies. The Giver community is dystopian because they don’t have the freedom to choose, the natural world has been banished, and they conform to Sameness.
The citizens of the community have no freedom to choose. To begin, the author states, “Even the matching of spouses was given such weighty consideration.” In this community, a committee chooses their spouse for them. The choice of whom they spend their life with has been taken away. This way, they won’t become attached to anyone. Additionally, according to the text, “[H]e hadn’t the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future.” An Assignment is an occupation. The choice of what they will spend the rest of their life doing has also been taken away. Then, the text says, “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices.” The community has no color. By removing color from the community, choices for small, everyday things were also removed.

First of all, on page 84 the author says, “And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times… so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.” The weather was inconvenient for the community, and was removed. Also, the text says, “And hills too. They made conveyance of goods unwieldy… He waved his hand as if a gesture has caused hills to disappear. Sameness.” Again, hills were an inconvenience. Then, Sameness eliminated hills.” For example, the text states, “Many of the comfort objects… were… imaginary creatures. Jonas’s had been called a bear.” There are no animals. The people could’ve formed an emotional attachment to animals. The animals also could’ve harmed the people, and they will do anything to not feel