5/25/2023 0 Comments The giver lowryThe word utopia, famously, means “nowhere” or “no place,” suggesting in its an impossibility and that any attempt at creating a utopia will necessarily devolve into a dystopia. But, utopias are more complicated than they might initially seem. In this volume, he used the word to describe a seemingly “perfect” society that protects people from the worst parts of humanity, a perfect definition for what the community in The Giver is trying to do. It is equally important to speak about the opposite of a dystopia, a utopia, and its origins with Sir Thomas Moore in his book Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia, usually shortened to Utopia. The Giver is perhaps the most important novel of the genre aimed at a young adult audience. Other novels like We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess are equally important. Readers who are familiar with the world of The Giver are likely also familiar with the worlds created by George Orwell in 1984 and Animal Farm. It’s impossible to talk about The Giver’s literary context without mentioning the many essential novels that came before Lois Lowry’s and solidified the dystopian genre as one worth exploring.
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