Confused World
The dystopian society described in the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, makes their world different and unique from others.The similarities in their world does not help them see the difference, and changes in things. The color gray is the only color that the society sees due to color blindness. The people are blinded from many things not only physically, but mentally as well. This characteristic makes the world different from Earth. Jonas is always wondering about what there is there to society and where do the people that get “released” head to. His imagination and his thinking make him different from his family and friends, which eventually get him to become The Receiver of Memories. The Giver, Jonas’ mentor, tries …show more content…
The people never think about seeing color since everything is gray. Jonas sees things differently from his family and he does not want to talk to his family about the things that go on with him. Among each other, Jonas family discusses their dreams, “Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams,..” (Lowry 44). In the book, it says Jonas never would want to discuss his dreams but one night he had a vivid dream. In his society everybody is blinded by color, meaning they could not see color, yet Jonas had a weird dream and he could see color. He saw the color RED. Jonas has not taken his pill so his mom believes it is because of that. All the teenagers around Jonas age have to take the pill and an announcement comes on everyday to remind the teenagers that they have to take their pill. The society does not know what it is to see color. Racism plays a major role in the novel. “The dystopia created in The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry is examined as a metaphor for racism” (Lea 1). Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Lowry writes for everything to be the same because she wishes on earth everything was the same. The view of life with everything being homogeneity makes life not the same. Everything being the same, makes cultures go away and our life will not be the same. (book
The dystopian society described in the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, makes their world different and unique from others.The similarities in their world does not help them see the difference, and changes in things. The color gray is the only color that the society sees due to color blindness. The people are blinded from many things not only physically, but mentally as well. This characteristic makes the world different from Earth. Jonas is always wondering about what there is there to society and where do the people that get “released” head to. His imagination and his thinking make him different from his family and friends, which eventually get him to become The Receiver of Memories. The Giver, Jonas’ mentor, tries …show more content…
The people never think about seeing color since everything is gray. Jonas sees things differently from his family and he does not want to talk to his family about the things that go on with him. Among each other, Jonas family discusses their dreams, “Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams,..” (Lowry 44). In the book, it says Jonas never would want to discuss his dreams but one night he had a vivid dream. In his society everybody is blinded by color, meaning they could not see color, yet Jonas had a weird dream and he could see color. He saw the color RED. Jonas has not taken his pill so his mom believes it is because of that. All the teenagers around Jonas age have to take the pill and an announcement comes on everyday to remind the teenagers that they have to take their pill. The society does not know what it is to see color. Racism plays a major role in the novel. “The dystopia created in The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry is examined as a metaphor for racism” (Lea 1). Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Lowry writes for everything to be the same because she wishes on earth everything was the same. The view of life with everything being homogeneity makes life not the same. Everything being the same, makes cultures go away and our life will not be the same. (book