The Giver By Lois Lowry: The Destruction Of A Utopian Society

Despite the fact that we endeavor for a utopia, the inability to do so results in our dystopian society. Envision a utopia where famine and war does not exist. This expectation costs multiple inflexible sacrifices to maintain such an infallible society. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community is synchronized to sameness daily to maintain humbleness or peace. In spite of that, society's ignorance of the truth keeps them from experiencing life itself. Ultimately, it is immoral to create a ‘utopian’ society by limiting or controlling feelings, self-expression, and birth.

First, limiting feelings unethically ignores several rights of individual liberty. When Jonas receives the memory of love he wanted to know if his parents loved him. When he

Young women are forced to have three children, whether prepared or unprepared. Soon after, they are separated from their own child and given to a family unit. Women today suffer through a similar concept: rape. Young women and children are constantly “...assaulted. Their integrity, dignity, and self-determination has been violated” (http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/141696). Young women are forced into inappropriate viewings without consent. Could you imagine a child being abducted then sexually assaulted? Women are upsettingly violated without choice before receiving knowledge of what really goes on in this world. Although, some may argue that these women could have consulted to their violation—or simply hadn’t known any better. Nevertheless, these women—just like in The Giver, are viewed with “‘...very little honor”’ (27). Being viewed with such little honor shows a large fallibility in this utopian society. Envision not being able to choose your own job and give birth to children all while being viewed as an insignificant woman. If this is considered part of a utopia, why would this dishonored job exist? Although we need children to keep the world running in the future, this is such a corrupt and cruel way to do so. Considering the community believes that this is an acceptable abstraction proves how disordered The Giver’s society really