Have you ever read The Giver?

[Grinchilla]

If you haven't, it's 10 times shorter than Twilight and really interesting. :)

But... I don't get it... why was the society in the story depicted as bad? I didn't see anything wrong with it... it seemed perfect. Ignorance is bliss.

[The Batman]

ROTW :arrow: The Open Book

We have places to discuss books mate.

Also I read the book and loved it. I think that the reason they depicted society as horrible is because no one felt any kind of human emotions at all. The pills they were given took it all away and their way of dealing with sickness, aging, and disobedience is to kill them.

[Grinchilla]

"ROTW => The Open Book"I don't know this place very well yet :p

Yah... I see now... but isn't that what people want? No emotions? When people think heaven, they think of it as being always happy.
People wish there was no hunger... no death... if they just didn't know about it... like in the Giver... it'd be the same thing, no?

[The Batman]

The thing is it wasn't the same they didn't know what being happy was or what love was at that. They were being hidden from the world and brainwashed into thinking and feeling whatever they were told to think and feel. You aren't living unless you know all parts of life.

[Grinchilla]

Without the pills the the perfect world would be chaos. People are never happy... that's just how we are. Everyone in the giver world would be trying to get ahead of everyone else. The reason why it was so perfect was because of the pills.


But I don't feel the same way as you: http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59183
But I'm also crazy. and my ideas do kind of kill the sacredness of life.

See... I don't really think anything matters... but I'm a hypocrite too. Gaw, I'm confusing myself. :p Don't listen to me anymore heh

[Aspiringanonymous]

We read this novel as a part of our English class in seventh grade. I was apparently the only one in the class who viewed their 'utopia' in a positive light. I still do.

The beauty of interpretive fiction is the endless different insights that could be drawn from the same arrangement of words and images. There is no wrong answer. It's only a matter of which answer is conveyed more coherently and in light of the text itself.

I read quite a lot of what is considered 'dystopian fiction', it is one of the most insightful genres out there. For the most part, every intended utopia may be just as convincingly interpreted as a dystopia, and vice versa.