What Is Thoreau's Response To The Giver

Henry David Thoreau, an American author, believes that the advice offered by elders in a society is frivolous. Despite Thoreau’s claim that he has never acquired anything valuable from the advice of his elders, there is in fact worth in the guidance of seniors. By simply living, as Thoreau would protest, lessons are learned. Both our positive and negative experiences inevitably grant us with new information and new outlooks on the world. We carry the important parts of these experiences with us throughout our entire lives. Therefore, it is no question we can receive proper advice from those who have lived a life before us. The Giver, a novel by the author Lois Lowry, perfectly showcases this idea. In the futuristic world of The Giver, memories of pain, fear, war, and hatred are nonexistent
This allows them to give us insight from a brand new perspective that could be more beneficial than a perspective from our peers. Personally, I have been exposed to constructive advice from my grandparents. They grew up in the 1960s and 1970s and come from a time of revolutionary ideas and social reform. Influenced by their time, they gave me the greatest piece of advice I will ever receive: “Be kind to everyone, you never know what is happening in their lives.” Due to those meaningful words my whole demeanor has changed and I treat people with even more kindness and respect. On a grander scale, her majesty Queen Elizabeth II grants her kin with timeless advice. Since she is ninety years old, The Queen has lived through various time periods that each hold their own importance. She holds wisdom that once given to her relatives and children, they have a wholehearted understanding of the world. When The Queen sadly departs, her family has the potential to craft a bright future for England from their understanding of its past and the worldly insight given by her