The Giver
The dystopian society in The Giver is different than it is in our modern day society.
One of the reasons why our societies differ is they can’t see color and if they do they get punished.
In The Giver’s society, people have to look and act the same. The government makes announcements. One of the announcements were that “all females that are nine must tie their ribbon neatly” (22), another is that kids who are age seven and below can’t own a bike until they’ve turned eight (26). These announcements prove that everybody in society is expected to be the same because the children have to do things at a specific age and a specific time. This is different than our modern-day society because people don’t have to dress the same way and children learn to ride bikes when they want to
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Each family is supposed to have one female and one male child; they adopt their children (8). Another rule is that they must be “...careful with [their] language” (3). This means they have to watch how they use their words because they don't want them to have a conflict and war.
Children are not related by blood to their parents and to their sibling because everyone is adopted. Everyone are supposed to be adopted and it was weird because in page twenty “And he has funny eyes like yours, jonas!” it was weird because they are not suppose to be adopted they are suppose to look like each other.
Jonas has a mom and dad one little sister her name is lily. He has a friend name asher. He go assigned to his job. Jonas’s job is a receiver and his partner is fiona. The receiver is the person th reserves the memories that other people have. When jonas got his job he thought, things are changing now . “Well, everything’s different now,” Jonas reminded her. “Even the nameplates on our bikes,” Fiona