A utopian community is a community of perfection, nothing is wrong. In a utopia there is no crime, no sadness, no problems, no anger, nothing wrong. Some characteristics of a dystopia are limitation of knowledge, no free will, no love, no happiness, and in many cases crime.
In The Giver many readers may struggle knowing that the community in The Giver is what it is, a dystopia. In The Giver Jonas states that, “there is no color”. That falls under the category of “limitation of knowledge.” “Dystopia, which is the complete opposite of a utopia, is a term used to describe a utopian society in which things have gone wrong.” That statement from passage one matches up with the society in The Giver.
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