Giver Theme Essay

Throughout the novel, The Giver, I gradually learned that the balance between freedom, and security is very important, because if there is not a balance, the society would be very imperfect. In the case of this novel, The Community created a life for all of it’s citizens that diminishes the amount of choice and freedom they have to almost nothing. However, in our society, there is not a perfect balance. There is enough of a balance that keeps our democracy here in the United states enough to keep everyone safe, have the ability to choose, and take their own path on life. The utopian society in the novel does not allow any of their citizens to have the simple joys that we do. When they are ordered to do something, the citizens obey, and do not question. As The Giver says, “‘They know nothing.’ …   ‘It is the way that they live. It was the life that was created for them.’” The Giver, and Jonas both knew that the emotionless, lifeless Community is a horrid place that is far from perfect. Compared to our life, it is a world of no pain, and is most often happy. However, we live without the absence of choice and   we are more than often happy with the balance we have between choice and safety.
    In the book, the safety that was created for the citizens overpowers the choice that they have by a substantial amount. Too much security can be a very bad thing, in the way it has turned out in the utopian society. In the utopia, everything is controlled and planned. There are no feelings or emotions that the citizens show, and they do not have memories of anything. They do what they are told and the only thing they know how to do is to do the task, or Assignment, that they were assigned to acomplish.The burden of all of the memories was weighed onto The Giver and is now being transferred to Jonas. This is because The Community was built under the influence of sameness to keep all of the pain away from all of the citizens. “‘But what happened to all of those things? Snow, and...