Memory and Freedom from The Giver

Imagine, not having any knowledge of the past and having no feelings for one another. Someone would just be living in a fake life and someone’s parents wouldn’t even love them. A world where someone takes a pill to have no feelings, too many rules, and if someone did something that they were not suppose to do, someone would have to be on a speaker and tell everyone what they have done. To have no free will and do everything that the Elders tell you, but exactly what you want, which would to be free. No freedom seems a little off to me, in spite that it does help the society from all the pain. There is no, war, music, love, color or suffering. Except for the 11, soon to be 12 year old boy, Jonas since he is the one with the memories. Jonas and the Giver were chosen because they are strong people who can take all the memories in, no matter how bad it is. It must be hard to have one person keep all the memories for themselves and not be allowed to tell anyone, but it is his job though, so he can’t or he will be released because the Elders control everything. Someone must be able to live life the way they want it, knowing memories, and history. Which brings attention to my next point.

In The Giver, memories would scare everyone due to the protection of the people for the longest time. As for the quote "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be pain." he knew feelings would give him pain, but he was glad about it. He finally knew about the history and facts. To know colors, and had memories of a lake in the sunny sky that he had given to Gabe when he took him. In our society, people know many memories of life and death. But for ...

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...t that the people in the community don't have much freedom and deserve to know the history. If I lived in that community and did not know anything about my world, I would not feel safe given I knew nothing about it . However maybe if I were to live there and knew nothing, I accept it would be better than knowing something horrid, for all that sometimes people will have to deal with something themselves and they won’t know how. It could be perfect for someone that is not nosy about all the facts about the community and what happened there, yet I would. I get the other side of the story why someone would want to live there, after all it would not make someone feel burdened or pained, despite that I would like more freedom than just being exactly like the others just because the age number with all the rules. The only difference is they have different assigned jobs.