1. What kind of world created in the Giver?

At the beginning of the book, we are introduced to Jonas, when he was living in this
world where Sameness was the order of the day. So we start the book and we see the world set in a
utopia society. However we slowly learns throughout that the society was in fact a dystopia one.
The discovery of the difference is very visible in Jonas story. He started as a normal boy in a
community that is described as a utopia: there was no pain and all forms of suffering, no hunger, no
war, a true paradise. Which are the most common characteristics of a utopia society. However we also
learns that free choice (choosing a spouse for example) does not exist, or any other personal choice;
that families applies for children, and that there are no grandparents! So we have a sense that something
is wrong with this paradise.
All the change from Utopia to dystopia happens through the eyes of Jonas.
The shocking discovery that he has always lived in dystopia starts to emerge when he is chosen as The
Receiver, and starts to realize the true nature of his world: a dystopia, strictly controlled by The
Committee of Elders. He discovers that what appears to be good is not even close. He learns that being
released is actually being killed, with the example of the video of the release his father had done
earlier.
So the society he lives in is a dystopia
2. Is it possible to create a Utopia? If so how, if not why not?
To me, it is not possible to create a utopia, because that would require control of the
elements of the earth (weather for example) plus control of the human nature and life, which is not
humanely possible.
Such a society would need a complete system controlled by individuals or a group, that would
be able to directly dictate when or if rain falls, where to put a mountain, when to send snow, just like in
Giver
while at the same time controlling who is thinking of what or dreaming of what or doing what and who
should do what or shouldn't which is not humanely possible at all
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