Imperialism Vs Communism Analysis

“Take care of someone else. Be there for someone else. Bless someone else. A happy life is about giving more than you take” (Hale). Giving is something that can be very important in the other lives of people, especially the poor that live in cities across the world in different countries. The different types of Government systems also contradict the means of the society that the people live under, the officials themselves running the economy into the ground and causing the chaos in the country itself. Freedom of expression and individuality is sometimes restricted in many places across the world as well, there’s no way to express someone’s individuality, which is something crucial to a thriving society. These things are freely shown in pieces
Each one having a very diverse meaning or having one very similar to another one, either way they are all different in their own little way. Though this book resembled something more of both totalitarianism and communism. “Of course the Elders knew that, from their observation” (Lowry 15). Both totalitarianism and communism use the power of surveillance, to see what the citizens are up to and if they are actually obeying the rules like they should be. The difference with totalitarianism, that type of government uses terrorism when it comes to the option of surveillance. Unfortunately, observation seems to play a very important key role in the story line, especially when it comes to the selection of assignments. “During the past year he had been aware of the increasing level of observation” (Lowry 15). When it comes to the option of surveillance and observation, it is something that the government can use against the citizens, rather than for them. For instance they can record something absolutely horrifying and then later show it to the citizens as a simple reminder as to what happens when they do something wrong. Which is a terrible way for the government to get the citizens to do what they are supposed to, but that is the official's decision not some lowly citizen living in the ghetto of the country. It is really alarming what
The way someone dresses, does their hair, wears their makeup, or even how they tie their shoelaces is one way someone expresses who they are. Which is visibly a struggle when everything is virtually the same for anyone and everyone who lives in a place where there are little to no choices at all. Color is a very favored way of how someone expresses who they are. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one maybe?” (Lowry 97). The question is, what would everyone do if their was no colors at all? Which is simple, they wouldn’t know that there was such a thing as red or blue, it would be just like being color blind, like some people are. The thing is, if they did have the choice to make decisions on what color they wanted, they could make a mistake. “But now that I can see colors, at least sometimes, I was just thinking: what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and he could choose? Instead of the Sameness” (Lowry 98). With the power of choosing, comes the responsibility of other things and the freedom to make wrong choices. Sometimes decision making can be hard, for example, girls nowadays when going to buy a homecoming or prom dress often wonder what color the dress should be, which can honestly be a hard decision.