A Desirable Place “The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars, and selfish hide in high places.”, this quote by Bryant H. McGill represents both The Giver’s community and Haiti. In both places there is leadership that is unfair and unreasonable, but there is still one of them that is more desirable than the other, and that place is, hands down, The Giver’s community. In The Giver by Lois Lowry a boy is faced with hard decision to live in a community where there is no love and no feelings, or leave. The boy chose to leave, but if the location he was leaving to was Haiti, a country described by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith in “Haiti in Crisis”, located near the Dominican Republic overflowing with poor, not working people, no stable …show more content…
In The Giver there are no feelings, no love which makes people wonder, is it a real utopia if there is these things? Though there are no feelings, or love, they don’t know what love is, they aren’t missing out and they have their own enjoyable things, like living with security and no fear. In a world like this, it can often be controversial if it is the more desirable place, but even though they don’t have the same feeling that Haiti can have doesn’t mean they have no feelings. Haiti has many problems as the world has learned, the whole country is riddled with crime, hunger, and poverty, but they still have love which is something the citizens in The Giver cannot comprehend. In Haiti there is always something going on, but that isn’t always a good thing, because haiti always has some disaster going on, they cannot focus on love, feelings, or happiness. The people in Haiti do not have time to love, or experience happiness in their worry filled world, so compared to The Giver’s community it is the way less desired place. Though The Giver’s world may have some flaws the choice is obvious, a world with no feelings, and no love, but no fear or poverty, or a world crippled with poverty, fear, and despair with no time to love or have any feelings of any