THA GIVA! (The giver)

I've recently been given a book about a 12 year old boy who lives in a society where everything is just perfect, The food supply, the water supply, the fashion, the education-- or to be more precise, pretty much everything is PERFECT. Even the jobs are perfect. So when Jonas celebrates " The Ceremony of 12"; the process of which a child is then turned into an adult-- he is forced to be enrolled as a receiver. A job from which you would have to receive the memories from THA GIVA!!!! (The Giver).

Q: Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why? Why not?

I think that I would want my future decided by myself and not anyone else. This is mainly because I find that everyone deserves the chance to make there own personal choices rather then other people making it. For example, if we were to pick whether to eat a pizza, and whether to eat a grain of rice, which would you pick? The average person would obviously pick a pizza (unless they were lactose intolerance), but what if someone were to make the choice for you, and they; without a doubt, chose the grain of rice for you. Unfair? Exactly. Though, not everything is unfair within the aspects of the community-- you're actually mean't to work for your job. For example, in the book; The Giver, you were mean't to help the area from which you wanted to work with, in order to gain that specific job, or else you would be enrolled into something you're unfamiliar with and/or not interested in. That's why everything inside the society is all controlled....you're not given any choices-- or any undo's.

Which leads me to my second point: FREEDOM!! Reading the book, I noticed that people were not given any choices of what to do, and what not to do. For example, in page 55, the book more thoroughly explained the concept of how Asher; Jonas's best friend in the community, had problems at speaking English when he was only 3 years old. It explained a scene from which Asher was waiting in-line at the canteen, waiting for a snack. Now if you've read this book-- you would know that if you don't speak correctly or in the right manner, you would be beaten with some weird stick thingy. Well, that was exactly what happened to Asher. It wasn't really that necessary to have beaten Asher with a stick, because it was just a tiny error and mistake. But like I said before, it was a controlled society.

Overall, I would say that freedom is rather important to our society, as it contributes many things to us like how we aren't living under strict supervision every minute of the day, and also how we aren't mean't to do certain things that aren't really that necessary to rule against. It is something that we can hardly live with all our lives, as it makes the human race whole. Not to mention, how is being in a controlled society good? It doesn't exactly make us a whole lot happy, I mean, how is being put inside some random job a nice thing? It's just like being put into some random family (Which is also another rule people must obey-- Being paired up into some random family....*Shudders*).