Did Jonas grew up in a perfect utopian community?

Genre: Science Fiction

Can you imagine living in a utopian world; a world free of pain, suffering, and injustice? A world without love? This is the world that Jonas was raised in. Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, takes place in a perfect community with a strong governmental system. No one remembers what it is like to live in a world with color, feelings and emotions…except for one. The Giver is the keeper of memory, and the time has come for him to pass down his work. Jonas, a teenage boy, is selected as the Giver’s apprentice. The story tells the tale of Jonas’s training, as each day he is given a new memory to treasure, and how he plans to share it once more with his community.

When there is no love…there is no suffering and pain. This statement plays a large role in the theme of The Giver. When elders of Jonas’ community decided to create their utopian world, they decided to remove love, feelings, and emotions, because they caused pain and suffering. The book’s lesson shares that love is a vital part of life; a person’s feelings are an essential part of what makes them who they are. I highly recommended this book because it is a real page turner. The reader follows Jonas as he rebels and schemes against his community, striving to bring back memory to remind everyone that there are more  important things in life. The Giver communicates an important message. You cannot have a perfect world, you can only do your part to make it the best that it can be, and that in order to do so, a person needs love.

Did Jonas grew up in a perfect utopian community?

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There are many differences and similarities. The book The Giver and the movie The Truman Show are somewhat alike and somewhat different. Both characters have complicated, yet “perfect” lifestyles. To begin with, in The Truman Show, Truman wanted to go somewhere else. He wanted to go to Fiji. Truman kept on telling himself that he was going to go. He wanted to get out of his place and find somewhere new. Truman kept trying and trying to get a flight or take a bus but because his society was watching him they made sure that there was no way to leave. Than in The Giver, Jonas wanted to go elsewhere. He wanted to experience different things. Jonas wanted to see what else was in the world for him. He did not want to be cooped up in his utopian society forever. The people in Jonas’s society did not know what the difference was between their society and elsewhere. Everyone just grew up knowing what they still know. They both want to leave their utopian societies. They both want…show more content…
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At the end he can't tell his friends why they not to play the game their playing called war because he can't tell his friends it's in his rules. After that he asked The Giver what is release so he shows Jonas and he is horrified from his experience of seeing his dad murdering a new born! Now he is horrified of his dad ande used to be not horrified of his dad. Now scince the begining he was dumb and normal now he is wiser, smarter,stronger,better,braver,and couragous. And now his dad which he is horrified of put a release for Gabe and he tod Jonas " I voted for Gabriel's release when we had a meeting this afternoon" and Jonas had put his fork down and told his father" Release?" Then he was really mad so he took the little one Gabriel and started his journey to escape he had to ride on teh side of the river then he had been oaettling for hours and finally left the community. Then got to elsewhere its just road for a long distance he uses his memory of snow to make the heat vision air planes not detect them at the end of their journey when they are on a moutain. When they get on the sled and go down the moutain they see space and hear music but is an echo then they black

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Jonas began to feel like her wanted to go home. Jonas can't go back to his community, "But he knew he couldn't go back to the world of no feelings for that he had lived in so long" (Lowry 131). Jonas wants to leave the community and never come back to it again because no matter how much he tries to give them memories he can't change them. Jonas decides that it is ok for him to leave his community. “ If he stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hanged for feelings, for color, for love” (Lowry 174). Jonas made the right decision of leaving his community because he would have been starving for answer on why they never changed the community but he feels happier that he rejected his society and left. (SIP-B) Jonas doesn't want to be a part of his community anymore. Jonas doesn't want to go back to his dwelling to see his family, "I won't! I won't go home! You can't make me!' Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fist" (Lowry 153). Jonas doesn't want to go back to his dwelling to see his family again because his father lied to him about the ceremony of release for babies. Jonas wanted his childhood back, he didn't want to be the receiver anymore, "Jonas did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games" (Lowry 121). That Jonas doesn't want to be the receiver of memory anymore he wants to get his childhood back so he doesn’t have to know about the memories of past communities. Jonas is rejecting his society because he finds out the true meaning of his community and why they took out what they