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

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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 …show more content…

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