In The Giver Analysis
Claim: Science fiction and dystopian authors use their stories to show that perfection is an illusion.
BP1: In the Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas discovers that the world he lives in is completely different, worse, than he expected, that it is an illusion. Evidence 1: “Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors.” (128) Evidence 2: “He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself… ‘Bye-bye, little guy’ Jonas’s father said.” (150)
In The Giver it’s starts off as this perfect community but what everyone knew in the community was false. It wasn’t a perfect community , The government was trying to make it something it wasn’t which was perfect.
BP2:
“The Veldt” …show more content…
Examination Day is about a boy named Dickie who, after he turns 12, has to take a Government Intelligence Test. So he takes it a week after his birthday, and later that day his parents get a call saying that Dickie’s intelligence quotient is above Government regulation. Which means that he was too smart and that the government wanted people to not be that smart, so they killed him. But in the beginning of the story, Dickie’s birthday, nothing is wrong. Dickie’s dad, after bringing up the test for the first time explains it as: “It’s just a sort of Government Intelligence Test they give children at the age of twelve. You’ll be taking it next week. It’s nothing to worry about.” (1) That quote means that Dickie’s dad doesn’t realize the full impact of the test, that he thinks everything is perfect. In the test, Dickie is first instructed to drink a cup of some liquid, then led to a chair with a microphone and told that he will be asked questions, and that he should answer carefully. The man instructs him to say “ready” when he is ready to start. (3-4) Later that afternoon, the Jordan’s get a call from a government official. In that call, they get their first clue that something is wrong, as the official says that he is above government intelligence quotients and she says “Whether you wish his body interred by the government or would you prefer a private burial place? The fee for government burial is ten dollars.” (4) That is how the reader knows that there is something wrong going on behind the scenes, that everything's an illusion to mask this evil. That’s also when Dickie’s parents find out that their world is an illusion, that nothing is as it
BP1: In the Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas discovers that the world he lives in is completely different, worse, than he expected, that it is an illusion. Evidence 1: “Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors.” (128) Evidence 2: “He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself… ‘Bye-bye, little guy’ Jonas’s father said.” (150)
In The Giver it’s starts off as this perfect community but what everyone knew in the community was false. It wasn’t a perfect community , The government was trying to make it something it wasn’t which was perfect.
BP2:
“The Veldt” …show more content…
Examination Day is about a boy named Dickie who, after he turns 12, has to take a Government Intelligence Test. So he takes it a week after his birthday, and later that day his parents get a call saying that Dickie’s intelligence quotient is above Government regulation. Which means that he was too smart and that the government wanted people to not be that smart, so they killed him. But in the beginning of the story, Dickie’s birthday, nothing is wrong. Dickie’s dad, after bringing up the test for the first time explains it as: “It’s just a sort of Government Intelligence Test they give children at the age of twelve. You’ll be taking it next week. It’s nothing to worry about.” (1) That quote means that Dickie’s dad doesn’t realize the full impact of the test, that he thinks everything is perfect. In the test, Dickie is first instructed to drink a cup of some liquid, then led to a chair with a microphone and told that he will be asked questions, and that he should answer carefully. The man instructs him to say “ready” when he is ready to start. (3-4) Later that afternoon, the Jordan’s get a call from a government official. In that call, they get their first clue that something is wrong, as the official says that he is above government intelligence quotients and she says “Whether you wish his body interred by the government or would you prefer a private burial place? The fee for government burial is ten dollars.” (4) That is how the reader knows that there is something wrong going on behind the scenes, that everything's an illusion to mask this evil. That’s also when Dickie’s parents find out that their world is an illusion, that nothing is as it