The Community In The Giver

“Even the Matching of Spouses was given such a weighty consideration that sometimes an adult who applied to receive a spouse waited months or even years before a Match was approved and announced” (Lowry 48). In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there is a community where there is almost no decision or say in any situations, you wake up tomorrow, and it is the same as yesturday. Nothing is ever unique or different, it’s always the same. Every choice is made for them, every move the make being decided for them. This is how it was in the community, everything was the same always. We are lucky to have the luxury of being able to make our own decisions. While our community have jobs, birthdays, and family, just like the community in The Giver,

To start off, kids in our community are allowed to ride bikes at any age. However, in the community you must be nine years of age before younare allowed to ride a bike. Jonas is talking about how he recalls being a nine and getting his first bicycle. Jonas is hinking about this time and he says “The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then” (Lowry 13). It is interesting how you can not ride a bicycle until you are nine, but you can have a job that plays an important role in the community. There is something that our communities have in common and in contrast at the same time about birthdays, however it is how when you get older, you have to do less community hours and projects. The woman is speaking at the ceremony of twelve says to the group “ ‘You’ll no longer be spending time with your group of Elevens. After the Ceremony of Twelve, you’ll be with your Assignment group, with those in training. No more volunteer hours. No more recreation hours. So your friends will no longer be close” (Lowry 18) . It should be reversed, the older you get the more that you should have to do to contribute to the community. Another way that our communities are unique, yet similar is birthdays, and how the older you get, the less fun birthdays become. When you become a teenager, is usually when

The first paragraph talks about how jobs are different and similar in our community than in the community. The second paragraph talks all about the similarities of birthdays in both communities. Also, what responsibilities are taken off of the group of kids and what responsibilities are gained throughout the rest of their lives. The third and final paragraph talks all about how families are treated and live in our community and in their community.My final thoughts on these two very different societies and their similarities is that their society is unfair in my opinion. Those people have no power over their lives or what happens in them. It is a mind-boggling to think about how much freedom we have to make our lives the way we