The Giver Personal Response Essay

I read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. This book was really good and shows what life would be like if everything were a utopia. This book is really engaging and almost has you engaged from the beginning to end. I like the way it was written out and it really shows what life can be like in the future. However, It does show negatives about everything being the same and that was something I thought really stood out. The Author gives great detail about the way of life. There are many laws in Jonas’s city. “Two children – one male, one female – to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.” (Pg. 26)This is an example of one of the laws. You can only have two children, a boy and a girl. I think this is very different because in our society, people can have as many children as they want. Boys or Girls. My family has three boys and we do perfectly fine. When the kids grow up and are in their teenage years, they are assigned a job based on their personalities and what the elders think

“The worst part of holding memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”(pg. 238) This quote shows that the person with all the memories feels lonely because he/she isn’t allowed to share their memories. No else is allowed to remember what life was like and how others societies are living. There is one specially assigned job the be the giver/receiver. That person is the only allowed to have memories and keeps every memory there has ever been. Once that person gets too old, he passes them on down to the next person chosen by the elders. In our reality, we get to keep our memories and we get to be who we are. Along with that, The government has cameras put up in the city to watch people to make sure everyone is behaving and no one is acting out. In our city, there may be cameras but the government isn’t going to come and take you for being who you