Communism In The Giver

Mao Zedong once said that “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Throughout history we can see examples of communism in the Soviet Union and China. Currently many countries including China, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba are communist countries. The Giver is a movie released in 2014 directed by Phillip Noyce. The main character, a man named Jonas, lives in a seemingly idyllic world of conformity and contentment. When he soon discovers the dangerous truths of his community's secret past. The Giver shows the negative impacts that communism has and it shows this through population control, control with rationing, and education.
Throughout history countries have controlled the population in many different ways. China has their one-child policy
The normal family was made up for two parents and two children. They killed babies that were not mature enough for their age, and they executed the elders to control the population. They controlled the rationing by only allowing healthy foods and giving little helpings to everyone. In The Giver the graduates jobs are chosen for them. The graduates who were not as smart got simple jobs, and the intelligent people were given more complex jobs. They hid the past from them, and only one person was chosen to receive the memories.
The Giver highlights how communism can have negative impacts through population control, control with rationing, and education. The Giver portrays communism in an entertaining way and helps to highlight the negative impacts it can cause and denounces the moral value many people have tried to give it. The Giver is a good way to show many people who are unaware of communism a more absorbing way of seeing