Freedom In The Giver
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”-Ben Franklin In the Utopian novel The Giver by Lois Lowry the society gives up all of their freedoms for peace and safety. They draw the line with a tiny sliver of freedom left which is choosing where to volunteer. The Founders of the Community of the community made it this way because in the world before the community was there was pain, suffering, and death. The Founders of the Community made the community this way so that everyone in the community could live happy peaceful life. The line that is drawn between freedom and safety and that is the correct way to go. People in our world may believe that color is good but the people
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The Founders of the Community wanted a peaceful society so that nobody would get hurt, be angry, and fight. They did this because they wanted a utopian society where everything is peaceful and safe because in the times before the community the people in the battles would “…welcome death himself,” (Lowry 120) because there was so much pain and suffering that they were willing to take their own lives. When people are violent they tend to hurt other people which breaks bonds between families and friendships. When Jonas felt the warmth of having grandparents he could not fathom why they would have them but then he learned about love. (Lowry 124) Love for someone who was lost to a violent shooting, mugging, and other acts of murder makes the person still alive want revenge but some people cannot live without this person so they murder themselves. That is why the Founders of the Community made the community that they did so that there would be no depression, pain, anger, jealousy, and all other feelings. In the society The Giver the Founders of the Community wanted there to be no pain and suffering. Pain and suffering makes death because in Jonas’s experience of war “… he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned
The Founders of the Community wanted a peaceful society so that nobody would get hurt, be angry, and fight. They did this because they wanted a utopian society where everything is peaceful and safe because in the times before the community the people in the battles would “…welcome death himself,” (Lowry 120) because there was so much pain and suffering that they were willing to take their own lives. When people are violent they tend to hurt other people which breaks bonds between families and friendships. When Jonas felt the warmth of having grandparents he could not fathom why they would have them but then he learned about love. (Lowry 124) Love for someone who was lost to a violent shooting, mugging, and other acts of murder makes the person still alive want revenge but some people cannot live without this person so they murder themselves. That is why the Founders of the Community made the community that they did so that there would be no depression, pain, anger, jealousy, and all other feelings. In the society The Giver the Founders of the Community wanted there to be no pain and suffering. Pain and suffering makes death because in Jonas’s experience of war “… he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned