“The Giver”- A Dystopian Society The setting of the novel “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society. The Community in which the characters live in is a well ordered and harmonious society. These following paragraphs will be going through the characteristics of a dystopian society and how the novel “The Giver” relates to each of these attributes. Two of the main characters are Jonas and The Giver, both of these characters have pale blue eyes… making them “different” from the rest of the Community. “No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.” …show more content…
Living in a “perfect world” comes with its advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages includes: that the characters get to live in a Community with no suffering or discomfort, meaning that it is serene and peaceful. Although they have power over many things such as the weather they lost some of the most important things in life such as colour. In the novel, The Giver explained to Jonas how sameness is like trading. “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” Despite the fact that living in a standardized society may seem like it would solve our problems of hunger, war and misery we would have to give up many things that make life