Essay on Freedom - The Giver
English Essay - Freedom
Essay Question: How has the study of your prescribed text The Giver, and one other related text, challenged your understanding of freedom.
Page reference: (15.6)
15 = Chapter
6 = Page
Freedom is the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants. The power to ones self views as to their will and to determine their actions without restraint. Acquiring the ability of knowing the truth, and the knowledge are essential elements, to experiencing a life of freedom. However restricting these elements can lead to a controlled and confined living, which abolishes the idea of being free. The Giver and the Al Jazeera cartoon on journalist, Peter Greste, shows the conformity the community in The Giver faced in the community and the limitation on knowledge of the world around them. The cartoon explains the lack of freedom the Journalist had to face during his ordeal with the Egyptian Government and imprisonment without proper trialling. Both of these texts’ shows how much these values are greatly in evident and are not allowing people to live a complete and fulfilling life.
Being brought up to up to understand the values of truth and having the right to knowledge of the world around you is essential in having a great life. Both of these values combined can only be acquired through the freedom of education and being able to receive knowledge and truth. There are boundaries, in The Giver, where community members were only allowed to learn certain things. In the cartoon, the journalist was not allowed to speak on his knowledge of the truth and so was unfairly trialled. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it.” (20.194). The dreary, difficult and uncomfortable tone, explains how Jonas is facing challenging situation right now, Jonas hopes that this all changes. ‘But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain’. (13.135). The narration gives us the opinion of Jonas and
Essay Question: How has the study of your prescribed text The Giver, and one other related text, challenged your understanding of freedom.
Page reference: (15.6)
15 = Chapter
6 = Page
Freedom is the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants. The power to ones self views as to their will and to determine their actions without restraint. Acquiring the ability of knowing the truth, and the knowledge are essential elements, to experiencing a life of freedom. However restricting these elements can lead to a controlled and confined living, which abolishes the idea of being free. The Giver and the Al Jazeera cartoon on journalist, Peter Greste, shows the conformity the community in The Giver faced in the community and the limitation on knowledge of the world around them. The cartoon explains the lack of freedom the Journalist had to face during his ordeal with the Egyptian Government and imprisonment without proper trialling. Both of these texts’ shows how much these values are greatly in evident and are not allowing people to live a complete and fulfilling life.
Being brought up to up to understand the values of truth and having the right to knowledge of the world around you is essential in having a great life. Both of these values combined can only be acquired through the freedom of education and being able to receive knowledge and truth. There are boundaries, in The Giver, where community members were only allowed to learn certain things. In the cartoon, the journalist was not allowed to speak on his knowledge of the truth and so was unfairly trialled. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it.” (20.194). The dreary, difficult and uncomfortable tone, explains how Jonas is facing challenging situation right now, Jonas hopes that this all changes. ‘But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain’. (13.135). The narration gives us the opinion of Jonas and