Utopia VS Dystopia

The definition of Utopia is a form of fiction describing an imaginary ideal world. The definition of dystopia is an imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible. These represent completly opposite worlds. In the book The Giver, the community seems to be a perfect utopia. However in the end we realize this is not a perfect world! This is more like an anti-topia which is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. It is not until the second half of the book that I started to realize there were alot of things missing from the "perfect" community. Things like choices, bonding, religion, color, and especially memories. This is in no way a utopia I would like to be a part of.