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The Giver Dystopian

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Jonas’s community went into sameness; sameness is controlling ideas put together to form a program. The Giver states that sameness is everything that makes our world different from Jonas’s community like snow and hills were taken away from them. Sameness allows Jonas’s community to Do you know what a utopia or dystopia is? Well neither do the citizens of Jonas’s community.I believe that Jonas’s community is a dystopia and the citizens can’t see that. An utopian society is a fantasy type land that is perfect in all ways. A dystopian society is like an utopian society but is very different. A dystopian society is always being controlled by an upper class of some sort. Jonas’s community is a type of dystopian community where the citizens are …show more content…

The text states that when Jonas was observed during his child years, they watched everything that he had done. Also, Jonas took an apple because he was starting to see its true color, the entercom came on and announced about Jonas taking food out of the designated eating areas. The community’s citizens is always being watched. Surveillance is major thing among a dystopian community, this fact pushes the idea that Jonas lives in a dystopian community.
Being able to see the colors of people’s skin,hair,and clothing allows us to create opinions and feel emotions. In the Giver, it states that the community removed color so people couldn’t have opinions. If the people of Jonas 's community could have opinions they would start to have questions about the community elders, this leading to them revolting. Being able to feel emotions and see color would end the dystopian community Jonas lives in. By controlling the citizens ability to see color and feel emotions the elders prevented the citizens from forming an opinion and …show more content…

I have three different reasons why Jonas’s community is a dystopian community. First, Jonas’s community went into sameness; sameness is the removal of climate and weather. Next is surveillance of the community, the elders are able to see everything the citizens do or say giving them zero sense of privacy. Finally is the ability to see colors and feel emotions, the citizens can’t see color or have an opinion preventing them to revolt against the community. Jonas live among the citizens of a dystopian society and the citizens don’t know

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Just think. Nobody has any knowledge of the past. You do not know what color is, you have no emotion, and everybody is the same. The world that you live in is colorless, emotionless, drab, even lifeless. This is the type of world that Jonas and The Giver live in.

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Kyla Buchanan Reading 12-15-16 Period:8 Compare and Contrast Jonas”s dystopian society was irregular and judgemental. In this essay I’m going to compare and contrast his dystopian society with modern day. There are many ways they were alike and different in the text. In the first paragraph, I’m going to contrast Jonas’s society with modern day. Then, In the second paragraph I’m going to contrast modern day with Jonas’s.

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Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.

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Jonas already know that his society created somethings called sameness. Later he learns that there used to be different colors everywhere when the giver tells him:" There was a time, actually, you'll see this in the memories later, when flesh was many different colors. That was before we went to sameness,”(Lowery, 94). Sameness is not a good things because it makes everyone and everything the same. There is no color, no flavor, and no feelings.

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The last extreme change is that we have emotions, feelings and we can see color, Jonas’s society is so much about equality that they don 't want anyone to be different or they fear that the people will have the power to chose what they want to do. Today 's society and Jonas’s have some similarities. Such as, in both children are given comfort objects to help them through rough times. Well just like in The Giver all children go to school in our country too.

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“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong.” The quote states that if people get to choose they don't choose the right things. Jonas doesn't follow the rules the city has because he's finding out new things that the world has to offer the citizens. He believes the others should know of the new knowledge he receives from the giver. Jonas brakes many rules just to cross the border to release everything hidden from the citizens.

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“The old of the community did not ever leave their special place, the house of the old, where they were so well cared for and respected.” (Lowry 123) In modern day society The leaders of our society do not care about the problems that we have and the things that they don’t ever ask about our feelings on the problem. In Jonas’ society The leaders of their society do not know what to do about some problems and so they sometimes make the community all messed up.

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If there was no sameness then the community would be a mess. It is because if a person chooses their spouse wrong then they will have to live with them for the rest of their lives. It is also the same when getting a job, if they pick their own jobs and they pick bad then they’ll be stuck with that job until their death. The elders think that sameness is good but Jonas is not happy. Jonas thinks that all people should have their own voice so that they can decide what they can do.

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He is under sameness and the influence of the community. Jonas is chosen to receive feelings, colors, and emotions from memories. As time goes by Jonas sees the community not as a utopia but a horrible place. Jonas wants to change

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Utopias are one of the worst things invented. Our society is better than the utopia society. Our society gets to make choices for things that are important. In our society there are lots of good memories and the bad but the good memories are so good and fun that it’s worth having some bad memories like pain. Jonas thinks everyone needs to be able to care.

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Jonas does live in a dystopian society. There are many rules and restrictions that seem to take away from the community member’s free will. Throughout the story, there are examples of propaganda, restrictions, worship, fear of the outside world, citizens living in a dehumanized state, and society being shown as perfect. Jonas doesn’t exactly realize just how dystopian his living environment is until he becomes the receiver. Propaganda was definitely shown in the book.

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Would you give up love and true happiness for a life without pain? In the dystopian novel The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, strong emotion is sacrificed for a peaceful environment. The depicted community at first appears to be a utopia, where hate and discrimination are abolished, but the emotionless society is quickly revealed to be dystopian as the story continues. They live in a world of sameness; there is no hunger, suffering, or war, but also no color, diversity, or sensuality. The protagonist, a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas, uncovers the truth about his community when he is assigned to be the Receiver of Memory, and acquires the memories from the past from an elder called the Giver.

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