Should The Giver Have To Leave To The Community

Have you ever thought your life can't get any worse? Well, I can't be worse than Jonas's life. In the dystopian book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas lives in a similar environment. In the giver, everyone lives in a community that is regulated by the elders. While they have food and water and all they need to survive, they are missing many things needed to live. In the community, there's no color, rain, snow, emotions, or even freedom, but this is how they have lived their entire lives. This is why Jonas, who is the receiver of memory learns of these things and decides to run away. It was a good choice for Jonas to leave the community because of the community's lack of freedom/choice and the absence of emotions.

The first point on why Jonas

In the community no one has emotions while they can be happy that's it. “If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for colors, for love.”(173). This shows that their community has no feelings. Once Jonas knows feelings exist it makes him sad that he doesn't have them. feelings also make us human and without them were more like robots. This shows another reason for Jonas to

For example, Some people may disagree and think “but overpopulation is a huge problem and they don't have that” and while that is a good point they are still wrong to think he should stay. To combat overpopulation the elders have to do something unthinkable, killing children they limit a family unit to one boy and one girl so when someone has twins, they just can't have that. While viewing a group of twins ``release” he realizes something “as he continued to watch, the new child, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half open. Then he was still.” Jonas realizes in a couple of seconds that the child has been killed, they do this to new children who don't pass the test, lowest weight twins, and the old. Killing other humans is their solution for overpopulation and Jonas was right to run away from that. Others may also say “but they don't have to worry about food” and while that is also true, Jonas still should have left. While they don't have to worry about the food they gave up the entirety of the weather for it. The elders decided that it was a good idea to start what they call “climate control”, this allowed them to stop rain, snow, and all the other bad weather that could interrupt the growth of crops this caused a cascade effect that stopped many different things from existing, like sledding, which you can't do without