Given Freedom
“Freedom is one of the most important thing for us”. Who is against to the statement. After the cold war, freedom became the world’s main value and many countries adapts the value. Contrary to the world today the society in “the Giver” (Lois Lowry, Harper Collins) is far from the notion of freedom. In that society, people’s lives are strictly regulated. People there cannot chose their jobs and families, and these things are determined by the “chief elder”, who observes everything in the society and consider the most suited job for all citizens. What is more, a lot of things that have risks, like animals and climates except sunny, that can make differences each other like …show more content…
The story of it is that Jonas, the main character, happened to know the dark side of the society and make action to change the dark. Many people may think the world is opposite to the real world where freedom is made much of and freedom is important. However, the society is not an imaginary society far from the reality. Also in the real world, people are, without a notice, moved away from freedom, but it is impossible to sustain community without regulations. As the matter of fact, the society itself has power to limit personal freedom and hide the fact. To begin with, since the society is a group of people, who have differences each other, it needs common and universal values to support it. The value spread every part of society and rules of society is made with the value. However, there are some people, called minority, who do not have same sense of value. To stay in a society to survive, those people cannot break the its rules and cannot act with their sense of value if the value conflicts with the common value. For example, many people think is marriage is held with a man and a …show more content…
In many countries, marriage of same sex is not allowed and they do not have freedom to marry person they love, even in the US, which sets freedom as an idea of the national founding, it had not been allowed it since 2015. Moreover, minorities are regarded as an alien which is out of understanding, or a heresy who breaks the peace society, and excluded from the surface of the society. that kind of persecutions often happen in human history, the clearest example is religious persecution like witch hunting in the Middle Ages and the most recent example is Rohingya people in Myanmar, whose village was burned off and who have been running away from Myanmar as refugees. The more distance they were excluded, the weaker their values are. Finally, as their values get weaker and weaker, the values are disappeared and forgotten from the majorities of the society. As a result, the majorities think there is no one who cannot enjoy freedom. That kind of concealments of regulations are perfectly accomplished in the society of “the Giver”. “The Giver shrugs “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquish color