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Why I Want To Live In The Giver's Society?

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Imagine a world without fear, pain, war, poverty, hunger, or terror. The community in The Giver may sound like a perfect world (a utopia). However, when you read between the lines you realize that in order to achieve all of these things you have to take away some very important aspects of life such as; emotions, love, diversity, choices, and even the ability to see colours. For a community to take away all those elements of life isn’t a utopia. You’re surviving, not living, and you end up going through life without feeling anything. Just living and doing what you are told to do without a second thought. It is for these reasons that I would not want to live in The Giver’s society. The first reason that I would not want to live in The Giver would have to be the loss of family. Though you don’t have to worry about not receiving a family, there isn’t the same connection between the family members that you would have in our society. In the text it says that the children will eventually forget that their parents ever existed, and that they will be too caught up in their job and family to even care. I know thousands of people in my community visit their grandfather and grandmother all the time. I can’t imagine forgetting my family and not going to see them as I get older. …show more content…

They pretty much all have the same timeline to their lives; go to school, get a job, get married, have kids, die. In our society however you can go on vacations, sell a business, have grandkids… Their school, job and death are already chosen for them. They don’t have the freedom of choices, and I for one do not like being restricted by what I can and can’t do. By taking away freedom and choices they eliminate room for error, but that is what life is all about. It is about learning from mistakes, and without making any mistakes how will they ever

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