Examples Of Dystopian Community In The Giver

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There is no right and wrong answer. It really depends how you view the community. As I said the community in The Giver, they had to take things away in order to make the society look perfect. The people in the community didn’t know about it. That’s why they think their community is perfect and the decisions that was made for them are perfect. If they knew about the decisions they would have made their own decisions and don't rely on the Elders. The Giver is both a utopian and dystopian community. In many ways it’s a utopian and dystopian community. The utopian version of Jonas’s community is not real because they had to sacrifice things such as color, emotions, and choices to make it perfect. The reason why the people in the community believed

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