Compare And Contrast A Dystopian Society In The Giver

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Lets pretend you’re living in a “perfect” world, a utopia. Your entire life is assigned to you, everything that you have to worry about in life is already figured out for you before you reach the age that these decisions should even be made.
Everything in this world was meant to be perfect, everything went right and nothing ever went wrong… Now lets imagine that was an actual reality. Through “The Giver” by Lois Lowry we get a first hand experience of a boy named Jonas who happens to live in this so called “perfect world” or in actuality, a dystopian society. There is no way that a utopia will never prosper.A utopia, like I stated above, is a society that is suppose to be thought of as a perfect society. In contrast a dystopian society is a

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