The Negative Effects Of General Welfare In Lois Lowry's The Giver

According to Forbes, a site that consists of the world happiest countries, countries like Norway favor freedom, fair health, education, and political systems. The general welfare, rank high in the happiness rate whereas countries like Chad, Congo, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, and Yemen. Who only focus on individual needs showing that they have one of the lowest happiness rates due to them showing greedy behaviors or having no proper education. So, did the happiness rate go up when people from nowadays preferred general welfare than the individual needs? Yes, because general welfare which provides freedom, peace, health system, education, etc.make people delighted. General welfare is more important for a democratic government to

Despite people have more choice and freedom, for those who do not have a protected society, valuing individual needs, would result a negative effect for the people. So, did the society that Jonas lives in, produce more positive or more negative results? In Lois Lowry’s, The Giver, Jonas’s community has a well-organized society with a very structured and safe life. “I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction” (48). In the old days, when people in Jonas’s community valued individual needs, there were lots of terrible happenings: violence; and then the society ended up by having general welfare by having safety. It is difficult for us to think of a world without color, freedom, music and love, but in The Giver, the society denounces these things in order to make room for peace and safety. In The Giver, by having a society based on general welfare they gave safety to their people. No violence, no criminal activities nor homicides. In Jonas’s community, everyone has the sameness. Therefore, General welfare leads a society into an outstanding democratic society by giving all the qualities from the