Society In The Giver

The Giver is about an imaginary perfect society, as the book continues on it seems to be more of a dystopia with a controlling government. For people life is a routine activity that rarely changes, like a story mode in a video game. In the United States you can do almost anything as long as it is not harmful. In some ways The Giver society and different but they also have similarities. We both have rules and leaders, but the United States has fewer and less strict rules. Here are some ways Jonas’ community and United States are similar. We both have a group of leaders. We also share the fact that we have certain rules. Some rules that Jonas’ has are that if your language is not precise you’ll be punished, food can not be saved or taken out of the lunch room. According to pgs 41-42 there’s only two kids to a family unit, a boy and a girl. In addition, you do not have your own kids, your kids are assigned to you. Also, there transportation system is free. For example, in Jonas’ society they receive bikes when they are 9 years old. …show more content…
Another similarity that we have in common with Jonas’ utopian society is that there are consequences for breaking rules. There are more differences than similarities between the United States and Jonas’ community. One example, in our society we can pick our profession, while in Jonas’ society pg: 12 states their life jobs are assigned to them, they can not change their assignment. Also we have color, music and feelings, Jonas’ community does not have these things, they take stirrings pills to cover up their feelings and