Comparing The Giver And How Do You Get A Job In North Korea

All people are entitled to human rights including the right to choose their own path in life. The government in America lets you choose what you want to be when you grow up, what you are going to look like, and who you want to spend it with. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry and the article “How Do You Get a Job in North Korea?” they both show how the government has total control over those who live there. It also shows that those who live there do not have the freedoms that should be entitled to every human being. These governments have an overall effect on individual choice and freedom, because the people do not have any. The effect of government on choice and freedom in The Giver and “How Do You Get a Job in North Korea?” is completely however the government pictures it to be.

“It was a secret election, made by the leaders of the community, the Committee of Elders, who took the responsibility so seriously that there were never even any jokes about the Assignments” (Lowry 15). This explains that the Committee of Elders, which in their communities government, chooses who is going to be working where based on their academics and volunteer work. “Once you’re assigned a job from the government, it is your lifelong job. … the government researches how many people are needed in each industry and location, an assigns people accordingly” (“How Do You Get a Job in North Korea?”). This shows that people of all ages do not get a say in what they want to do in the future. They do not have dreams or goals in life because they know that they will never come true (“How Do You Get a Job in North Korea?”). Even their parents know do not worry about their children’s future because there is nothing they can do about it, it is all up to the