The Giver Reflection

Sadly 59% of Haiti lives on less than $2.42 a day but 25% of Haiti only lives on $1.25 a day. In The Giver by Lois Lowry everything is perfect and fair and is a place where everyone can’t go wrong. Everyone in the community wears the same clothes and is the same smartness. But the community isn’t always perfect and they do not have color, memory, and feelings. But sacrificing memory, feelings, and color for not starving in Haiti is a good idea. Matter of fact the article
“Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith, everything was destroyed after they experienced a massive hurricane in October of 2016. Haiti’s land was all destroyed and flooded, and most people could not access their homes or what was left of them. It is more desirable

In The Giver, everyone experiences the perfect family and get the motivation from their family to live a good and successful life (Lowry). The kids that are apart of their families are always supported and end up with good careers. There is one mother, one father, one brother, and one sister to complete the “perfect” family. Their families help each other through hard times and provide food, water, a home, and company. In Haiti, most children are not brought into an ideal world. For example, 20% of Haitian children ages 5 to 14 work (Brow & Smith). Families keep getting set back because of the natural disasters which make it especially hard for children because they are forced to work so they can have enough money to help support their family. The kids of The Giver have so many opportunities to make their lives better (Lowry). All kids in the community receive a job after they turn twelve but they have trained for their jobs and a family after they receive a spouse. But in Haiti, 50% of children do not attend school. But of the ones who do go 60% will end up dropping out by the sixth grade (Brown & Smith). Their government needs to get their act together and help out their country survive and back on their feet. No kid should be forced to work to help their family with the bills, they should just be able to enjoy their kid life and have

However, in Haiti children receive a much lower calorie intake, which makes most of them malnourished, In Haiti, it’s likely that someone making $2.42 isn’t going to make enough money to buy food for the whole family (Brown and Smith). It is very important for kids and adults to get the proper amount of food to survive. In The Giver, everyone in the community receives a certain amount of food every day and eat it at a certain time (Lowry). So many people in the community have perfect health which is something to strive for. In Haiti, 3.6 million people starve because they don’t make enough money so they can either buy food or make their own (Brown & Smith). It is really unhealthy for anyone to go without food for a long time because after a while anyone would die. In The Giver, they have an agricultural field which grows all of the food in the community (Lowry). All of the people in the community never go hungry which is really out of the ordinary because it is really difficult in the real world for a community to be able to feed their people without breaking the bank. There are many ways to cook food like vegetables and fruits to keep everyone from going