How Does The Giver Affect Society

The Giver is a science fiction book written by Lois Lowry and is about a Utopian society which Jonas the main character lives. The main character named Jonas lives in a world without colors, choice, pain, diversity, and no freedom. And he is soon to notice that his “perfect” world has negative consequences and dangers. Lowry warns her readers about the many dangers of living in a world with excessive conformity where the is no feelings, no individuality or uniqueness, and they have no choice on your job. In The Giver everybody eventually has to take pills to prevent stirrings or feeling. One night Jonas has a dream and it make him feel good he tells mom in the morning and she says that now he has to take these pills everyday to prevent them. This is negative on society because it makes everybody bland. Even though the pills prevent the bad feelings in life is it really worth losing the good ones? Lowry’s warning highlights the point that the way one feel makes him/her different and without feelings everybody is bland.
In Jonas’s case he would be assigned a job and if someone was nine they would get a bicycle. But is that a good thing when all of your birthdays are on the same day? This has a negative effect on society because there is no individually, which makes no feel special because they can not even feel. Also they all get the same gift which makes everything even but not special. And a birthday is a special day just for the individually and they never get to experience that under conformity. In today’s society a birthday is a special day just for them and Lois Lowry highlights the point that nothing is