5 Looks about The Giver

 

memories

release

individualism

community

utopia

 

 Without MEMORIES, there is no pain. If you cannot remember physical pain, you might not of have experienced it. In The Giver the community decided to eliminate all pain from their lives. To do so, they had to give up the memories of their society’s experiences. Not only did this allow them to forget all of the pain that had been suffered throughout human history, it also prevented members of the society from wanting to engage in activities and relationships that could result in conflict and suffering.

 

When a Community member was RELEASE was because they had broken the law three times, when the requested a release, when they had become very old, if they didn't reach the proper birth weight,or if they were the smaller of a set of twins. This was the biggest mystery in the community, not knowing were members went after the release, why the ceremony was so secretive.

 

At the Ceremony of Twelve, the community celebrates the differences between the twelve-year-old children for the first time in their lives something that the children grew up thinking was breaking the rules. For many children, twelve is an age when they are struggling to carve out a distinct identity for themselves, differentiating themselves from their parents and peers. the journey to their INDIVIDUALISM begins.

 

In the COMMUNITY everyone is treated equally, never pointing out their differences. Everyone has an appointed duty and everything is done as said. Its all communism.

 

Is the community really an UTOPIA for everyone, or might it only be for some people. A place where you have to give up something's in order to have the prefect place, but is it for all?