The Giver by Lois Lowry is a very engaging book with many opinions on either a utopia or a dystopia. Dystopia can have many characteristics of things in the world that aren’t good, like the community in the Giver aren’t allowed to have freedom, choice, nor individuality. I’ll explain to you each reason why I believe this is a dystopia. Individuality is a big element in the world. Protests and rallies happen all the time over individuality, that’s why when I noticed the book didn’t truly allowed people in the community to have individuality I knew that this was a dystopia. For example every girl up to age seven is required to wear a ribbon in her hair. How I know this is because on page 40 of the giver, Lily is complaining about her hair ribbons to her mother, “‘I don’t like hair ribbons. I’m glad I only have to wear them one more year.’” In that quote she is stating that she is getting annoyed with her ribbon and is happy that she has a short amount of time left with having to wear it. …show more content…
For example, at eight kids are forced to do service hours no matter if they want to or not. Also they are forced to listen to the speaker all the time and are unable to turn it off. If someone in the world didn’t want to listen to tv they have to ability to turn it off, which is unlike the speaker where no one is able to unless there the giver. A quote I found that showed the speaker talking was on page 37 right after Jonas had his first stirring, “ ATTENTION. A REMINDER THAT STIRRINGS MUST BE REPORTED IN ORDER FOR TREATMENT TO TAKE PLACE”. I believe to make it more of a utopia they should have the freedom and the ability to turn the speaker