Examples Of Greed In The Giver

How would you feel if you lived in a utopia with no crime, racism, violence, or hatred; however, you would live without the feeling of love, pure happiness, emotion, and freedom? We would have a great society that would ensure all people would be treated fairly without bloodshed or hostility. However, to achieve a utopia, you would have to fabricate the truth. In The Giver, Lois Lowry illustrates the greed of others to achieve their dream community. Ultimately, it’s horrendous to force a utopian society to limit freedom because it’s tentative, forgery, and cruel as shown in Roe v. Wade.

First, it’s tentative to force people to repress people's feelings for one another. For example, the Elders have children take a daily pill to eliminate the

In the Givers society, the people are unaware of the term death because it’s a sensitive conversation to have with people and it would show emotion, they forge it to Release. The Giver states, “Listen to me, Jonas. They can’t help it. They know nothing” (Lowry, 191). People who work at the Nurturing Center, for example, have no idea the harm they cause every day because they don’t know what it is to feel pain or hurt in any type of way. Jonas’ reaction to his father murdering a baby comes as a shock because his whole life, along with others, has been a lie. They have simply been protected from the meaning of life and death. Some may say, it’s ok to forge the truth from the citizens so they don’t have to go through the pain of loosening someone. It is not, hiding the truth from someone which people call a secret is the one thing the Elders want to prevent people from doing, and telling people that Release is someone going to Elsewhere could eventually lead to the thing that scares them the most,

Wade. Consider the fact people are being forced to keep their babies even though they might not be at the right age, financially stable, ready for kids, and more. Birthmothers are stripped away from their children as soon as they're born and have no choice on if they want to be a Birthmother. “ ‘There's very little honor in that Assignment.’ … ‘ Three births, and that’s all. After that they are Laborers for the rest of their adult lives’” (Lowry, pg. 27). If you’re forced to birth a baby against your will, like the Roe v. Wade case, and not keep your baby due to the possibility of emotional contact with your baby, is cruel. You also violate the right to liberty by being forced to keep a child that you aren’t ready for. Some may argue, people are just trying to bring lives into this world, there is no harm, and they will learn to love their children. Sadly that is not correct. If people are forced to keep their children, many result in child abuse because the child is unwanted which isn’t fair to the child as it didn't ask to be born. In the Givers community, children will be taken care of extremely well but, the Birthmother has to live with the fact she cannot see her child and grow a connection but also have to work as a laborer til put in The House of