Lois Lowery Haiti In Crisis

“Fifty nine percent of Haiti’s population lives on less than two dollars and forty two cents a day” (New York Times). The Giver by Lois Lowery presents a world where many of the worlds problems but has a government that controls almost everything their people do. In the article “Haiti in crisis”by Brian Brown and Patricia Smith presents a 3rd world country where those problems are there but people have full control of their lives. If an opportunity occurred to choose which place would be a more desirable place to live, it would be The Giver’s community.
Every single person no matter who they are has the right to have food in order to live. In The Giver everyone gets 3 meals a day and the same amount of food no one is starving or even hungry as a matter of fact (Lowery). No one is more better off than anyone else and they all get to live. In Haiti twenty one percent of children drop out of school before they get to sixth grade (Brown and Smith). Haiti’s children do this so they can give their family something to put on the table every day they work their hardest every

single day just so they can have something to eat. The Giver presents a world were hunger does not even exist and another place where starvation is everywhere. The Giver’s community presents a place where people can survive.
Everyone needs a job to support their families and to keep their government in tact and flourishing.

In The Giver every single person is given a job and especially a job that can support themselves because no one in the book homeless or jobless (Lowery). No one is upset about their job because it is based on their skills and interests. Haiti, on the other hand has an unemployment rate of forty one percent and those lucky enough to get job fifty nine percent of them live on less than two dollars and forty two cents a day (Brown and Smith). This is a place where their government is horrible so bad in fact that their own population can not get a job let alone one that pays well. The Giver’s community shows a perfect world where anyone does have a job that can sustain human beings and that the population loves, but in Haiti all of that is thrown away and everyone is fighting every single day to

survive.
In conclusion The Giver’s is a more desirable place to live. This is true because in The Giver’s community all people get all the food they need, and people get the job they want and are good at. “Fifty nine percent of Haiti’s population lives on less than two dollars and forty two cents a day” (New York Times) this shows that Haiti has an unstable government and one that can’t support themselves but in the community that will never happen.