Essay On Choices In Lois Lowry's 'The Giver'

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Would you preferably eat pig liver or a the world’s spiciest pepper, which is a Carolina Reaper? Read the entire series of The Hobbit or the entire series of Harry Potter? Be clever in an idiotic community or be unintelligent in an intelligent community? Do you have any options in life, no matter what it is? Is it fine to have the freedom to make decisions of any kind? Do you think it is exceptional to have the freedom to make choices, even if that means we have the freedom to make terrible choices? In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, writes about a 12 year old kid named Jonas who lives with his parents and little sister, Lily. Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory and to keep the people in his community from experiencing true excruciating pain such as war. I think that it’s healthy to have the freedom to make decisions, even if that means we have the freedom to make terrible choices? …show more content…

80). This shows how Jonas didn’t have a chance to choose if he wanted to become the Receiver of Memory during the ceremony of 12. Another reason is that, Jonas thought he was going to be a Pilot, however, he thought wrong. He didn’t get determine whether he wanted to become the Receiver of Memory, since he thought he was too foolish for that responsibility. An example of this is how you look, like if you’re ugly when you were first born, you can’t change the way of how you look, it’s just the way how you’re born. If you don’t believe that you’re ugly then why won’t you do me a favor and go look in a mirror. To you that disagree with my opinion, it clearly shows that Jonas didn’t have the freedom to determine if he wants to be the Receiver during the time he was turning 12 years

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