Utopia is perfect but is it possible to achieve utopian society? Everyone has their different views of what a utopia can be but there are always to many challenges people will face trying to create a utopian society. There will never be a utopian society because there will be too much pain and suffering. Families in The Giver are almost fake they have no real connection or love in their families. In reality there is unconditional love no matter how bad the kid messes up. In a telling of feelings conversation one evening, Jonas asks“‘Do you love me?’’ and his parents respond, “‘Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!’” “‘Do you enjoy me?’” (Lowry 127). This displays the lack of love or even the ability to love in Jonas’s
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When jonas got the assignment of receiver of memory he was allowed to lie which i feel like brought more pain to jonas because he could not tell his feeling at night or any dreams in the morning. In a quote by the author telling us about morning rituals Lois Lowry said “Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams” (Lowry 34). This quote demonstrates dream telling in the morning why in a utopia do you have to tell your dreams in the morning? Jonas stopped taking his stirring pills because he was tired of not being able to love and he loved Fiona. Another ritual is the ceremony of loss. This ritual seems a little messed up they just forget about whoever died in reality we care about who died and remember them for all the good they did. The author said in The Giver “ In the morning the entire community performed a ceremony of loss together murmuring the name Caleb throughout the entire day less and less frequently,softer in volume ,as the long and somber day went on, so that little four seemed to fade away from gradually from everyone's consciousness ”(Lowry 44). This quote demonstrates how they show their loss because they do not love anybody and this hurts Jonas because he know what love is and he saw his Dad kill a baby and he found out what relase was and it hurt jonas a lot and made him suffer which ultimately made his decision to leave the
When jonas got the assignment of receiver of memory he was allowed to lie which i feel like brought more pain to jonas because he could not tell his feeling at night or any dreams in the morning. In a quote by the author telling us about morning rituals Lois Lowry said “Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams” (Lowry 34). This quote demonstrates dream telling in the morning why in a utopia do you have to tell your dreams in the morning? Jonas stopped taking his stirring pills because he was tired of not being able to love and he loved Fiona. Another ritual is the ceremony of loss. This ritual seems a little messed up they just forget about whoever died in reality we care about who died and remember them for all the good they did. The author said in The Giver “ In the morning the entire community performed a ceremony of loss together murmuring the name Caleb throughout the entire day less and less frequently,softer in volume ,as the long and somber day went on, so that little four seemed to fade away from gradually from everyone's consciousness ”(Lowry 44). This quote demonstrates how they show their loss because they do not love anybody and this hurts Jonas because he know what love is and he saw his Dad kill a baby and he found out what relase was and it hurt jonas a lot and made him suffer which ultimately made his decision to leave the