ipl-logo

The Giver Is Like A Utopia Place By Lois Lowry

530 Words3 Pages

The Giver is like a utopia place, By Lois Lowry. Is it worth trading freedom for happiness, security, and comfort? I don’t think freedom is worth giving up for happiness, security, and comfort, because having freedom might make you happy in some ways, because a lot of people don’t have freedom. But still I wouldn't. And you can’t really have happiness without freedom. Freedom is very important because how won’t you have a perfect world without freedom. The purpose of this essay is to argue whether freedom is worth trading up for happiness, security, and comfort. Why it's wrong to deny people's freedom? In the book The Giver, there are many different examples. But I chose the examples that really stood out to me, the examples that I liked are they are not being able to chose their own work, (pg 12) taking food from the office, (which they are not able to) and not being able to chose their own spouses. Those really stood out to me, is because all those examples are showing “why it’s wrong to deny people’s freedom, because it shows that they don’t listen or care what the the people have to say about an idea or something. …show more content…

The book has many good examples for this question. One of my examples from the book is that, the community has no danger near them, and that they might give them comfort that they don’t need worry about. Another one is that the people in the community just go with the flow. I chose those examples out from the book because I think that they really proved a point in what i’m talking about. And the people in the community doesn’t really know anything until the speaker tells them what to

Show More
Related
1360 Words | 6 Pages

In Incidents In the Life of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Harriet shares her experience in slavery and how she overcame trials presented in the form of her master and mistress, and how she battled constant separation from her family and children. In order to protect herself from her master, who constantly attempts to pressure Harriet into a sexual relationship with him, Harriet becomes involved in a relationship with a white man and gains two children. However, in order to escape slavery, Harriet stays for seven years in a small shed in her grandmother’s home and eventually gains her freedom. The book shows that in a system of slavery, family ties and the idea of motherhood are two things that are almost unachievable due to the uncertainty

Read More
450 Words | 2 Pages

Freedoms in the Community I recently have read The Giver by Lois Lowry. The citizens of the community are missing several freedoms that are crucial to society today. The freedoms of speech, choice, and voting are all important to the way society functions today. In the book, the community members do as they are told and cannot speak out against any unjust actions they see occur. There would be upsides though.

Read More
473 Words | 2 Pages

Mikey Xhudo Mrs. Gazzara and Ruggiero LAT Essay LA, Pd 2 3/1/2023 Have there ever been people around you that would not speak up or try to fix a terrible thing? In the Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Mrs. Hutchins wanted to fix the lottery and stop the terrible tradition, which is the lottery and when you win it you get stoned to death, but it didn't work that easy. In the Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas wanted to know more about the mysterious community, but instead he found out some dark truths about the Community’s traditions. In Both books, Lowry and Jackson reveal that people need to speak up and question the terrible traditions in order to make a change.

Read More
461 Words | 2 Pages

“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains” (Rousseau). Rousseau discusses the idea that freedom gives us enough power to pick who or what has control over us, which is an idea that is continually presented in the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. When in a position to choose, people will strive to lack personal control as a way to relieve their physical or mental pain. People like to live without control to lessen the burden of their suffering.

Read More
515 Words | 3 Pages

Freedom is the very principle on which our country is founded. We say that it is this freedom that makes the United States so great and powerful, it is this freedom that makes our country the best in the whole world. Yet the famed essayist and social critic H.L. Mencken says that, “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” In saying this, Mencken is basically stating that the allure of this country is not its freedom, but its safety and protection from the dangers of the world.

Read More
322 Words | 2 Pages

In the excerpt, “The Story of American Freedom” Eric Foner analyzes how changing the meaning of freedom helps Americans obtain the desire for economic opportunities, political equality, and social acceptance. Primarily, the economic side of defining freedom in America varies drastically by the era that we are living in and how the country is modernizing. The term freedom can change when it comes to political equality. The government says that every citizen is equal but in society every citizen is not equal. Also, Foner demonstrates social freedom as a privilege and that important social issues are prioritized even though many issues should be treated with the same importance and attention.

Read More
272 Words | 2 Pages

Freedom The idea of freedom can be seen throughout the second Collection of our text book. Freedom can be seen in the end of the speech, “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

Read More
1443 Words | 6 Pages

INTRODUCTION Society is a collection of people that influences individual’s life and behavior. It is generally the groups of people that are complying with the same rules and laws that allows them to live altogether. All over the world, talks about society and its issues that are prominent and inevitable. This paper intends to presents different points about social issues.

Read More
1498 Words | 6 Pages

Choices free us from oppression and give meaning to life. Humans depend upon the freedom to express themselves and to grow. If given no choices, everyone would be lifeless clones programmed to obey every order set forth by their superiors. Lois Lowry set The Giver in a community where no citizen has ever tasted the joy of freedom

Read More
846 Words | 4 Pages

Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.

Read More
852 Words | 4 Pages

True freedom is commonly defined as absolute choice; whether it is in thought, actions or speech, freedom is an individual’s ability to take control of their lives and enables the human experience. Civilization views freedom as an ideal, yet the means of achieving it and whether or not freedom is truly achieved remains ambiguous. There are often individuals in civilized society who struggle and believe themselves to be free after a hard earned victory against oppression. Yet, the implications of maintaining a civilized social structure upon freedom is often overlooked. Many individuals view themselves as free from a subjective standpoint, although true freedom has an absolute meaning.

Read More
740 Words | 3 Pages

While a dystopian society may seem perfect, the novel represents the limitations and expectations of an ideal community. The Giver displays the similarities and differences of our modern world versus the “flawless” model of a perfect society. In a perfect society, everyone must be the same. To make sure of synchronization in the community, there must be discipline.

Read More
994 Words | 4 Pages

”(Lee, Pg.119) this one really proves something. That you it is wrong to just go and kill or discriminate against people for no reason, when they have not done anything to anyone. This last key point is about honesty and this quote is a good example, “Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. ”(Lee, Pg.366)

Read More
459 Words | 2 Pages

But what The Giver ' s society made the largest mistake they could, they tried to make their place happy by taking everything that makes people happy, and

Read More
1627 Words | 7 Pages

We can’t protest against the rules that determined by the community. For example, smoking is a right, but you can’t smoke in a shopping mall. We hear other people’s requests and needs. Yes, a person’s freedom ends where someone else’s rights

Read More

More about The Giver Is Like A Utopia Place By Lois Lowry

Related Topics

Open Document