“Choose a life format that is the most desirable to you”(Redhead). In The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, their community is a utopia that provides them many resources, including food, families, education, clothes, jobs, and many other helpful items. In their community, there are rules to follow, and if they disobey them, then they are to be released. In the article “Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith, the community is destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, which sends many families to live in caves because their homes are gone. They suffer without food, purified water, everyday needs, and everything they lost in the hurricane. From these ideas stated about both stories, the final conclusion is that The Giver’s community is a more desirable …show more content…
In The Giver people are assigned jobs, which allows no mistakes to be made (Lowry). It sounds horrible to say that the choices are made for someone else, but it actually makes their community more desirable when everyone does their part. In Haiti many of the children and adults have to make choices for themselves when there is a massive destruction because everyone can not help everyone else all the time (Brown & Smith). They have to decide between what food they need because of their loss of money, what ideas are possible to do, and many more difficult decisions. When this happens, it is difficult to control the decisions of making right and wrong choices. Also, in The Giver the different jobs that are assigned make some of the people more successful, like Jonas (Lowry). Jonas is more successful than some of the other kids his age because he knows more about everything that happens. He knows the truths and lies about the community, and he knows what the generations before him have experienced. In Haiti, the nation was forced to pay what is now $23 billion (Brown & Smith). This is now putting an effect on their country because if they do not have the money, they can not rebuild nearly anything again. The nation is not able to pay for any education, which impacts everyone very much. If they do not have the education, they can not read the alerts for evacuation. Making sure that
The island of present-day Santo Domingo and Haiti was originally named Ayiti (meaning mountainous land), by its inhabitants. From 1492 to 1696, Ayiti became Espanola, meaning “Little Spain”. Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who settled the island under Spain, named it after the Spanish crown. When the French took over the western portion of Hispaniola, it was named Saint-Domingue from 1697 to 1803. The Republic of Haiti, or Haiti, has been the official name since 1804.
Lois Lowry gets most of the ideas for the giver from her life. When her sister died she wondered if it would be better if people couldn’t love at all because then we would not feel pain after the love ends. This is how Lowry got the idea that the people in the community cannot love. When Lowry saw the news report about the mass murder she didn’t really care because it wasn’t anywhere near her. In the giver when people are released the person that releases them doesn’t feel any remorse for what they have done.
Seeing that the whole idea of the book is going against this quote in the giver “when people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong” it clearly reinforces that having options to pick from is important. choices are a part of our everyday life and are important to us feeling all of life has to offer by choosing wrong. To change
Therefore pain, celebrations and more choice would have made The Giver community more positive. One thing that would have made the community more positive is pain. One example on page 69 is “When he had crushed his finger in the door, he had quickly , gasping into the speaker notified his mother ; she had hastily requisitioned relief-of-pain medication which had promtly delivred to his dwelling. ”This supports the claim because if they dont have pain they will not learn from there mistakes. If they don 't learn from their mistakes they will keep doing dumb things.
There are times when we experience events where our perspective of life changes and makes us change how we respond to new circumstances we encounter. In chapter seven, “Chump Change,” of Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, the author, Adam Grant, describes two people as “failure givers” for caring about others more than themselves when it comes to their professional situations. These individuals went from being doormats, submissive people letting others dominate them, to successful givers, when they experienced disadvantages for helping others too much. For these individuals being a giver meant to help others in spite of sacrificing their own good. They were not aware that their perspective of giving would hurt their professional
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. In Haiti, 80% of the populations were under the poverty line and on January 12, 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti (Amadeo, 2016) and more than fifty-nine aftershocks that followed. This natural disaster had a devastating effect on Haiti economy. Government and people around the world made donations and pledges of aid to Haiti. (History, 2017)
“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry). In other words, this means that to get what you want, you have to get rid of other things you have. Although there are many similarities between The Giver and our society, there are a lot more differences like families, rules, and personal freedoms. For starters there are many differences with families between their society and our society.
The most important assignment in the community. He must receive memories from the current receiver. The chief elder made the decision to make only one person bear the burden of the memories. Everyone thinks the community is perfect, a utopia, but Jonas sees all the flaws .Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.
Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.
One of the main themes in “The Giver” is the importance of individuality. The people in the community are not given any freedom to be individuals. They are not allowed to be different, and this creates less understanding of the world. This is why the community needs a receiver to understand these things for them.
“I said it because it’s true. It’s the way they live. It’s the life that was created for them” (Lowry 153). In the novel The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, people live their lives without love, or compassion. In this dystopian society, everything is chosen for the people.
The Perfect Place The society Lowry depicts in The Giver is a utopian society; a perfect world as envisioned by its creators. It has removed fear, pain, famine, illness, conflict, and hatred, all things that most of people would like to eliminate in today’s society. In this utopian community, major problems are rare, only minor problems such as scraping your knee would happen. Even when this would happen there would be medications sent to them.
The real world and The Giver have many differences but also have some similarities. There are many laws that are different but same in many ways. Also The Givers traditions are very different from ours but The Giver is someone’s utopia and someone’s dystopia. The real world is also someone’s utopia and someone else’s
When we read The Giver we can broaden our horizons to secular fiction to understand the grim outlook from a non-christians perspective. In reading The Giver, we have realized that many people who lack our faith do not care about the value of life like we do. The book helps us understand the non-christian idea of life and can helps us form an effective counter-argument against infanticide, euthanasia, and abortion. Although Lois Lowry wrote The Giver with an adventure story in mind, but it is easy to see her reason for her writing.
The Giver written by:Lois Lowry, talks about a way of life within a community built on Sameness. Jonas becomes the Receiver, the person appointed to receive the memories of the World, and begins to question his relationship with his family and the Giver. With the Giver he is free and he can be his own person. He doesn't have to be like every one else, like he does when he's with his family. When Jonas is with the Giver, he can feel all sorts of emotions but when he's with his family, he can't.