How Does The Giver Change The Community

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver the people of the community gave up person freedoms to achieve a utopian community where everyone was equal. Freedoms given up where pick your job, pick how many kids want, and individuality. But when became the Receiver of memories he change the community's future.

Picking your job was given up so each job had an equal amount of people. Also each job had an equal amount of help. This was not worth it, because if the people were not good at their jobs it wouldn't be fun for them. “During the past year he had been aware of the increasing level of observation. In school, at recreation time, and during volunteer hours, he had noticed the Elders watching over the other Elevens. He had seen them taking notes. He knew too, that the Elders were meeting for long hours with all of the instructors that he and the Elevens had had during their years of school” (15). Giving up the freedom of picking your job helped the community achieve equalness.
This was given up so each family was the same and the community wouldn't get over populated. I think It's not fair because the Elders think that they will run out of food , but they could just make more food. In the book Jonas’s Dad was trying to keep a baby at the Nurturing Center. He had to push to keep the baby, because the community thought if he keeped the baby other people would try. “ Instead as a result of father’s plea Gabriel had been labeled Uncertain, and given an additional year” (42). Having the freedom of having as many kids you want was given up so the community wouldn’t get over