Children In The Giver

In the sci-fi novel, known as The Giver, instead of having a family you get assigned to a family unit. Your parents are paired “perfectly” and they are allowed to have only two children, male and female. In order to have children you must apply for children, these children will not contain your blood, they will come from someone called a Birth Mother.This might come off as odd to us in our world because we are allowed to choose our spouse and have as many children as we want, but in Jonas’s world this is a normal thing. Imagine yourself living in the world Jonas lives in, it would be normal to us too, but of course it is not since we have freedom. Living in the world Jonas lives in can be both beneficial and non-beneficial. Although, Jonas’s

The world that Jonas comes from does not allow the people there to express what they truly feel because 1. they take a pill that stops them from doing so and 2. they have to use precise language when speaking to others. We are allowed to say words that express emotion like “love”, “sadness”, and “care about”. In Jonas’s world they will often hear the phrase, “Precision of language,” if they speak of feelings and will need to apologize for whatever it is they said. To us that seems weird because we do not get scolded for speaking our minds and what we feel. This can be seen as both an advantage and a disadvantage to the people living in Jonas’s world. This is seen as an advantage because without feelings comes the inability to feel pain or anger which are the main causes of conflict. Although this seems beneficial, without the ability to feel you are basically an emotionless robot with no purpose in life other than to blindly follow the orders of your leaders. Thus, proving the fact that although pain is hard to deal with having the ability to feel is better than to never feel at

In Jonas’s world this is normal along with all the other odd rules they have, but in our world we have the freedom to do as we please just so long as we do not break any laws. Unlike the world Jonas lives in we are allowed to choose the person we want to marry, in The Giver spouses are perfectly match to ensure that there is balance within the relationship. The relationships in The Giver are not allowed to express love toward each other, nor are they allowed to leave one another for another man/woman. In our world we can get married as many times as we want with whoever we want. Another point is that in order to own children you have to apply for them and you are only allowed to have one male and one female. You are not allowed to name your children either because there is something called a “Naming Ceremony” were the baby names are given. We are allowed to have as many children as we want and name them whatever we want to name them. Love is what brings families close together, some families are not blood related, but they share a strong connection through love for one another. In the novel families there have no feelings, so the people they live with are kind of just there and not purposeful. They don’t really care for you or feel love for you it is sad, but for them it is reality. For the families in our world this is not normal since we can feel love and are able