How would you define a dystopian and utopian society? Do you think that a utopia is a perfect place? What about a dystopian society, do you think it’s a bad place? Although they bear some minor similarities, the differences between Jonas’s society and my community are clear. A dystopia is a terrible place with suffering, pain, violence, and it is a very unpleasant place. On the other hand a utopia is an imaginary place where everyone and everything is perfect and it is very wanted and desired by many. While some differences between Jonas’s society and our society are noticeable, the similarities are striking. First there are many similarities in Jonas’s society and modern society. In both modern society and Jonas’s society there are jobs. For example, in the text it says “I hope I get assigned to be a birthmother” (Lowry, 27). This shows that there are jobs in Jonas’s society just like my society. Also in Jonas’s society they have families and so does my society. I found some evidence in the text that supports this and it says “The evening proceeded as all evenings did in the family unit” (Lowry, 32). …show more content…
They both have jobs, but they aren’t set up the same. For instance, in the text it states “a female named Inger, received her assignment as birthmother” (Lowry, 67). To put it in another way people in The Giver are given an assignment and they aren’t allowed to choose their jobs. In The Giver society they also have families just like modern society but they are also set up differently like the jobs in The Giver society. To give an example, in the text it says “Two children-one male, one female-to each family unit” (Lowry, 11). Basically, in The Giver society people are assigned families and they don’t get to choose who they want to have a family with or how many people they want in their family. To sum it up, both societies have similarities but they also have many differences between