We know all about the generations back and back and back, and about the events that happened. Picture living in a place where only stories from your generations are familiar to you, and you only get the knowledge the committee chooses to share with you. Also, the community needs a Receiver to keep the memories away. The Receiver is “‘the one chosen to lift the burden of the memories from the whole community’… ‘And that’s the real reason that the Receiver is vital to them, and so honored’” (113). The committee is selfish, and guilty of having fear. They want to have nothing to do with the memories, and they make others deal with the pain and loneliness of having to keep it to themselves. Utopian isn’t the word to use to describe this society, because of the way that they take away joy through the …show more content…
However, not one person has succeeded. So why should they now? Jonas’ community is dystopian because they have so many rules to try to achieve perfection, they take away memories from the people, and they penalize innocent newborns and others because of the differences they have. The society is trying to achieve the impossible by doing terrible things, and controlling people. This book is important for 6th graders to read because it teaches people the true effects of trying to achieve perfection. Since you’ve learned about Jonas’ dystopian society, is it safe to say that there is no such thing as