The Giver Research Paper

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of the others”(Lowry 95). In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry the community gained many things like equality. Although in the process they lost many things that before were valuable to them like their memories, their ability to see color, their ability to love, and many other things. As their utopia lossed the control and choice of what they do like their jobs, families, and the rules that they live by, their community became a dystopia. Jonas’s community is a prime example of a dystopian community. They think that they can not have a community without rules and freedom. They haven’t noticed that by having a society with rules and no freedom they are missing out on many things. A community

That imagination is real in Jonas’s community. They do not get to choose who they marry and the kids that they have. In Jonas’s community they have to apply for children for the children that they get. While Jonas and his family were at the table his mother said, “The year we got Lily, we knew of course, that we’d receive our female, because we’d made our application and been approved”(Lowry 12). When their application gets approved for a child that is when they get a child. If they are ready to leave and die they have to apply for release. When the Giver and Jonas were in the Annex room the Giver said, “When the speaker notified me that Rosemary had applied for release, they turned on the tape and showed me the process”(Lowry 151). When somebody applies for release they have a tape of it so that the Giver can see. They are not allowed to choose their spouse either. They have to apply for their spouses that are picked for them. In their community they are only allowed to have one mother, one father, a boy , and a girl per dwelling. Which means that they are only allowed to have two kids unlike our society we get to have as many kids we want. The families in Jonas’s community are picked for