...Imagine a society where everything was perfect, where everything would always go exactly according to plan. Such a society exists in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. In the society, multiple systems are set up so that order can be maintained. While starting with good intentions, the societal systems eventually become a machine that rips humans of basic emotions, and hunger for these emotions eventually leads to the destruction of the society. In The Giver, Lois Lowry uses the systems of Sameness, the Ceremonies, and Releasing to maintain order; however, these same systems ironically also lead to the downfall of the society. The system that the society prides itself most on is the system of Sameness. Sameness was originally intended to bring about order...
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...Two Dystopias After reading the iconic novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and learning about the devastating Holocaust, I have come to a conclusion that there are many similarities between the sick realism of the world and the made up world of a book. A dystopia is a fictional world where people live under a highly controlled, totalitarian system. In both The Giver and in the Holocaust, societies were based off of: rules, sameness, and death. All qualities of a dystopia that make it the highly controlled, totalitarian system that it is. To begin, I will start with the extreme control and rules placed upon all citizens of the community in The Giver, and the millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Over the course of the Holocaust, Hitler...
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...The Giver Imagine living in a society where rules do apply, where you can’t compliment on someone for looking nice that day because it would make the person feel different and uncomfortable in the society of sameness. Everyone having the same thing as you, same clothes, same rooms, same everything. But, the only thing they can claim and call their own, and no one else has, is their name. In the book The Giver, there is really nothing that is out of the ordinary everything is the same every day, imagine this, waking up to the same weather every day, same community’s , and same colors every day… In the book The Giver, there is really no seasons so, no winter means no snowmen with cute carrot noses, no summer means no tubing on the lake, no spring no beautiful morning daffodils, no fall means no leafs to rak into a pile to jump into, every day just the same oll’ weather. In the book Jonas had never experienced weather/ seasons, he had the same weather every day of the weak, for the...
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...If you enjoy being in control and need prefection, to the maximum, you may be the creator of sameness. Sameness is a process brought about by the elders and founders of the Communities. Sameness; the removal of all things that create differences such as the ability to see color, have weather, even down to not being able to pick out your own clothes, and Communities; the areas where everyone is located, are all from Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Within this utopic society, our main character, Jonas, lives in his community where sameness is present. In this society, your jobs are assigned and Jonas gets assigned as the Receiver of Memory, the most pristegious position according to the community, but what’s hidden inside the title can provide immense joy or immense pain. The book to movie...
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...Can you imagine our world without feelings, diversity, and animals? “The Giver” takes place in a community that is in the future named The Giver community. Jonas is selected to be the receiver. When the Giver gave Jonas the memories he realized that his community is a horrible place. Jonas and the Giver plan an escape for Jonas. The Giver community needs feelings, diversity, and animals to make it more positive. Feelings would have been important to make the community more positive. “Love, the Giver told him. Jonas repeated it Love. It was a word and concept new to him.” Page 125. “Sobbing, he turned his head and vomited onto the frozen snow. Blood dripped from his face into the vomit.” Page 109. If everyone felt pain they would...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...sadness, happiness, jealousy, pain, or love. Some might think that this would be a perfect society, but as proven in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. In the book Jonas, the boy who was chosen to be the next Receiver, experiences a society that is different from his own. With the help of The Giver, the man who trains Jonas, he learns that “sameness” isn’t exactly perfect. The Community controls emotions in an effort to create a painless society; the result, however, is a society absent of true emotion. Once someone in the Community begins to develop feelings for someone they are given pills to control the emotions that they are experiencing. The...
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...Imagine you are born into a so called world that is controlled by others from the place you live to the weather you have. Two worlds that seem so real come to be fake all your life you've believed in what's been presented to you untill you one day become curious. In the giver and the truman show there are tons of similarities in the two main characters. One thing that is similar is in the truman show and the giver is they both live and believe in this fake world that was set up for them. Then they both start to become curious about the world they are living in. Finally that all leads to the two characters Jonas and Truman seeing beyond and kinda discovering this world they live in has secrets and they both want to find out. The two settings...
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...Freedom. In our society, freedom is used everyday. We make our own choices, what to eat, what time to go to bed, or even choosing what occupation you will receive. In The Giver everyone who lives in the society is well protected, it is a Utopia, but freedom does not exist. I believe it is not worth giving up my freedom to live in a perfect world. I need freedom, it is a necessity to live. Without freedom there is no reason to live. The Giver is based in a community full of sameness, sameness is the concept of everyone being similar. “‘Oh.’ Jonas was silent for a minute. ‘Oh I see what you mean. It wouldn’t matter for a new child’s toy. But later it doesn't matter? We don’t dare let people make their decisions.’” If humans didn’t have freedom, it would affect our lives so much. Freedom determines the outcome in various situations....
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...have never known. Some things were joyful, while other things were painful. But the most important thing is that Jonas and the Giver learned that they are more than capable to make a difference for difference. In the book The Giver by Lois...
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...In “The Giver”, we are introduced to Jonas, the eleven-year-old protagonist of the story, as he struggles to find the right word to describe his feelings as he approaches an important milestone. He rejects “frightened” as too strong a word, recalling a time when he had really been frightened: a year ago, an unidentified aircraft flew over his community; it was a strange and unprecedented event, since Pilots were not allowed to fly over the community. As Jonas remembers the community reaction to the event, we learn more about the society in which he lives. It is extremely structured, with official orders transmitted through loudspeakers planted all around the community. As a punishment, the pilot was “released” from the community, the worst fate that can befall a citizen. Jonas decides he is apprehensive, not frightened (Jonas and his society value the use of precise and accurate language), about the important thing that is going to happen in December. Jonas thinks he lives in a perfect world. He lives in a highly ordered community where there is no pain, but he learns that there is a price to pay for this kind of life and discovers humanity’s long forgotten pains and joys. He finds out that he is living in a twisted messed up imperfect “utopia”. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true...
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...Is perfect always perfect? In Lois Lowry's The Giver “perfect” is where there are no differences in appearance and everything is chosen for you. Whereas in America’s society, perfect doesn’t even exist. A utopia is defined as a place or state where everything is perfect. However, as shown in The Giver, you cannot take something bad away without taking something good away in the process. Both societies strive towards creating a utopia, but have very different ways of creating this and as a result, The Giver’s and America’s societies have both have many similarities and differences. The community in The Giver is extremely different when compared to America’s modern society. The perspectives of jobs in each society are drastically different. As mentioned in The Giver, each Twelve receives their job at the Ceremony...
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...Lois Lowry's novel The Giver takes place way into the future. Jonas is chosen as the giver at the age of 12. He never had an assignment before. After getting this assignment, he started disobeying. He starts to disobey, he doesn’t believe in sameness and he doesn’t like all the rules. One lesson the story suggests is that when you are rebellious you can get in trouble and that sameness is not good. From the beginning Jonas always seemed to be a rebellious child, Lois Lowry describes how Jonas and the Giver were planning on how to sneak Jonas and Gabe out of the community. Because after all the memories that Jonas has received he wanted the community to see them and have them as well. Jonas, was not listening to the rules of the community...
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...BananasThe Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian fiction based around the life and experiences of Jonas. The community in which he lives is certainly a horrifying place to live for many reasons. Firstly, every child, at age 12, is given a job without any choice for themselves. Furthermore, the community believes passionately in an idea which they call sameness. It is clear that this community is not a nice place. A harsh feature of the community is that its citizens do not choose jobs, nor can they change career paths. This is cruel and makes it a bad place to live because it limits the choices which people can make. Choices are a vital part of our life experiences. In the community children are allocated jobs at the “ceremony of twelve”. This...
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...In The Giver, they give up their personal freedoms and achieve peace. I don’t think this trade off is worth it they give up almost everything for peace. They don’t have everything that they want and they can’t make their own choices, they can’t be unique and they don’t have their own opinions. They all act like everything is fine but in my opinion and Jonas’s it is not ok. The personal freedoms that are taken away are the biggest reasons why Jonas doesn’t like the rules of the community. Making your own choices are big in your life you use it to pick something to wear in the morning or what to eat. In the book you have no choices and all you can do is follow the rules. In the book you have only one choice which is where to spend your volunteer hours. You can’t pick your own job or where you live it is all decided for you for “Peace”. You aren’t able to pick your own clothes or pick your own religion because if you would pick your own clothes, that could contradict someone’s belief and it could cause an argument. In the reality you are able to pick your own clothes, house and how you live and where you live. . The only reason the community doesn’t go into panic mode is because they are brainwashed to think that...
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