Dystopia In The Giver, By Lois Lowry

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the community Jonas lives in is an imperfect world. It is an illusion of a utopia. A utopia is a place that we can only dream about. While a dystopia is the opposite. Their society lacks the qualities of a utopia, and has flaws, such as, lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control. The community doesn’t know the past, so they lack knowledge. The only person that knows is the Receiver of Memory. In The Giver it says, ”Everyone in the community has one generation memories.” The Receiver is the only one who holds all the pain, happiness, and fear of the world.This leaves the citizens uneducated about their community. Citizens own two books, and the Receiver cannot share his books with his family unit. For example, “Your living arrangements will have to be different from those of most family units, because the books are forbidden to citizens.” These books have information of past generations, and citizens are forbidden from them. Which is why they lack knowledge. …show more content…
All of the citizens’ lives are identical. In The Giver it states, “The year we got Lily, we knew, of course, that we’d receive our female, because we’d made our application and been approved.” Each family only has two kids; one male and one female. Everyone’s life is the same. In the text Utopia and Dystopia it states, “...both are usually set in a future in which technology has been used to create perfect living conditions.” But in this process, the technology has taken away color. Without color they’re missing out on so much. Perfect living conditions wouldn’t be all