The Strange Utopia of The Giver :: Giver Essays

The Strange Utopia of The Giver   Imagine living in a humanity where you cant claim your job, where at the age of twelve you are assigned an occupation by some group of elders. Imagine a world in which you cant choose that special person to be your wife or husband, a world where nobody is special. Visualize a place where you cant have your sustain children, where you have to sate care of somebody elses children. In The Giver by Louis Lowry, this place exists every day. Its a perfect world, a utopia.   A job is, for many volume, one of the more or less important lineaments of their life. If its so important, you have to enjoy it, and to enjoy it, you have to choose it yourself. In this utopia, created in The Giver you dont get to do that. Other people choose the activity you are going to do for the rest of your life. For example, Fiona was assigned Caretaker of The Old, a job she really wanted, but dont you think that maybe later in her life, she could ch ange her mind and not want to do her job anymore? She cant do that because she lives in a world where she doesnt have a choice, where she cant run her own life. You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance is. No one can tell you what to think, you have a mind of your own, and repressing your thoughts wont do any good at all. I want to give you a quote from the book. I heard about a guy who was absolutely certain(a) he was going to be an engineer and instead he was assigned sanitation laborer. He jumped into the river and swam to the closest community, no one saw him again. This demonstrates that the elders can be wrong. People defending Sameness can say that all the jobs are made for the people getting them and that they will like them and be an active part of the community. I am going to respond to that with a life story. Before I was twelve, all I wanted to do is be an architect.