Thomas Warden
English 346
Sr Christine Mihelich
April 23, 2018
Utopia in “The Giver” by Lois Lowry “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is a great example of how an ideal world, or a utopia could never exist without a few faults. Jonas, the protagonist of the novel, faces trials and tribulations uncovering the reality of this so called utopia. Lowry shows the reader how the Elders of this perfect society have controlled their people to the point of fault. The Elders have a firm grasp on how to restrict the emotions, privacy, and thoughts of this society. In the end, the reader can see that this utopia is a dystopia. Emotions are part of our everyday lives. They shape everyday actions, the Elders restrict the communities emotions, so they do not think
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An instance occurred in The Giver, of a boy who was to be awarded his assignment but because of a simple mistake everything went wrong. “An Eleven had arrived at the ceremony only to hear a public announcement that he had not completed the required number of volunteer hours and so would not therefore be given his Assignment.” (Lowry 26). The elders have set up a system of volunteer hours to help the soon to be workers, experience the work world but as the caption shows one of them decide to rebel and that is what happened. The excerpt proves to us that they might have to set up a system in which everyone does volunteer hours perfectly, the system is not error free. For if they were truly in a perfect world no such flaw could be made. But there are times that this system works to perfection. “An Eleven named Benjamin had done his entire nearly – four years in the Rehabilitation Center, […] it [is] rumored that he [is] as skilled now as the Rehabilitation Directors themselves” (Lowry 27). This shows that the program can really help develop the children of the community. This shows that if they can get that smart there is a possibility that they could then off power the system. As the reader would likewise conclude this seems to be a world of order it is actually just a tower of cards bound to