The dystopian society in Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver and the modern society in our world today have very different concepts for a perfect world. The protagonist, Jonas, was one of the only people that knew what the world had been like before the change (almost like today’s society). In the world today, we know what it’s like to have emotions. In this novel, “the Elders” had taken away most of the natural things we know today such as freedom to choose who you marry and freedom to choose your job. These things and more would be assigned to you. Thinking that this would form a utopian society, elders took away and prevented some freedoms as we know today. By doing so, people didn’t know what it was like to experience emotions. …”we don’t dare let people make choices of their own.” (page 124) People in this society believed that if all the choices were made for them, everything would be “safer” and run a lot smoother. Jonas had been chosen as the Receiver of Memory for their community. This meant that all the memories of life before would be transferred to him and in his control. The Giver was the former Receiver of Memory, meaning he would pass the memories to Jonas. As Jonas learned about color, love, and freedom of choices, he began to wonder… were they really living good lives? …show more content…
We choose who we love, our jobs, feel emotions, everything that they were unable to do for themselves. Sometimes, without pain there is no pleasure, so because people in The Giver are unable to sense pain, they really haven’t ever experienced pleasure or happiness. It is almost like their lives are planned before or shortly after they’re born. When children are born today, there is no plan. People’s lives could go down any path, and it’s all because of choices. It is easy to see that the Elders are wanting to protect everyone, but sometimes the right thing to do is let them make mistakes or let them succeed on their