Aspects of Controlled Community in Lois Lowry\'s The Giver

The Giver, scripted by Lois Lowry (1993), is a sweet about a boy called Jonas and how he responds to his confederations lack of extract and individuality. The refreshing explores Jonas encounter with memories of the past, and how he feels towards the lack of immunity inside his highly controlled gild. As the novel develops Jonas depresss to question the counsellings in which his connection work and disagrees with the severe laws of his society. People in the community in The Giver ar unable to build up choices on their own, much of their lives are pre-planned and organized. The community believes that in order to stay a safe and painless lifestyle, the great unwashed are command to decide things for themselves. In the society that Lowry has created, muckle are told who to marry, what to wear, how umpteen children they can have, where to live, what job they allow have and what to feel, resulting in subsisting predictable and controlled lifestyles without choice. Due to the particular that the community has no companionship or memory of the past, they cannot make choices of the future and are sooner governed by a inflexible set of rules. Jonas community fears that if people are given the independence to make their own choices they competency make the wrong one, indeed destroying the illusion of their perfect society. \nWhen Jonas discovers memory, he realizes that choice is power and is ingrained to human happiness. At the start of the novel Jonas is as unaware as anyone else about the way he is living. He has grownup up with strict rules and discipline, and has trustworthy this way of life because he doesnt know any opposite type of existence. But as he receives the Givers memories, he learns the right about his community, that it is hypocrisy and that the people have sacrificed their individuality and freedom to live as robots. As the story continues, the author changes Jonas acknowledgment and he experiences an external appoin tment between himself and the community. He is frustrated and angry becaus...