Jonas's Dystopian Society

In Jonas’s society, everyone thought their society was the ideal society,but to Jonas the society was an awful thing. The society that Jonas lived in was a perfect example of a dystopia. In our society, which is modern day, we can choose our spouse, we can love and have emotions. We can also choose our jobs and cook our own meals unlike a dystopian society. Modern day society and a dystopian society are alike and different in very many ways whether you notice or not.

In modern day society, one difference is that we have freedom of choice. We get the freedom to pick our own spouses and have a family with however many kids we want. We also get the freedom to pick our own jobs. All these are things that a dystopian society is unable to do. In Jonas’s society, a committee picks their spouses and that is who they have to stay with. A committee also assigns two kids at different times to the parents and that is the kids they raise until the kids become old enough to move out and it starts all over again. In his society, they also get assigned jobs, at the ceremony of twelve, the committee gives them an assignment and that would be their job.

Although it may seem like they have a lot of differences, the two societies have some similarities. For instance, both societies …show more content…
In Jonas’s society, everything was the same. They had climate control, meals delivered to them, no hills, birthdays were celebrated all together and there was no color. But, in modern day society, our society, we all have our differences, whether it is personal differences or differences outside. The weather for example, in our society, can be raining in our neighbor's yard but be sunshine in our backyard, all depending where the rain clouds fall. But, in Jonas’s dystopia there was climate control, so all the weather in the society was the same. This goes to show that everything had to be the same in this