The Value Of Freedom In The Giver By Lois Lowry

“Freedom is one of the most important thing for us”. Who is against this statement? After the cold war, freedom became the world’s main value and many countries adopt the value. Contrary to the world today the society in “the Giver” by Lois Lowry is far from the freedom. In that society, people’s lives are strictly regulated. People there cannot choose their jobs and families, and these things are determined by the “chief elder”, who observes everything in the society and considers the most suited job for all citizens. What is more, a lot of things that have risks, like animals and climates except sunny, and that can make differences each other like colors, clothes and strong feeling like love and sexual desire, are restricted or deleted. In

Besides them people made other rules in their society for the sake of keeping peace and safety in societies. First, there are regulations to solve confliction in most societies. Although people in a society have same value in their mind, they must have differences and conflicts of these differences can be happen. ‘“I says I apologise, Jonas.’ Jonas sighs. It was no use. Of course, Asher couldn’t understand. ‘I accept your apology’ he said wearily” (171 2~5). In that scene Jonas tries to stop game of war since he knows how terrible a war is, but no one knows the origin of the game and a war. Therefore no one can understand what he wants to do and his friend, Asher gets angry. He tries to explain the reason of his behavior, but at a moment Asher says, “I say l apologise”. It is a rule in the society to avoid quarrel, that if someone apologizes, one has to accept the apology, so he accepts it although he has something to tell. Without the rule he might get into quarrel, if worst comes to worst, fight. That is trifle fight, but in a big scale, many people fight and no one is able to control the ciaos. The ultimate form of the fight is a civil war. If it happens people’s lives must be threatened and the society must be divided. Rules stop conflicts before they get larger. Secondary, regulation for saving people’s health and safety also play important roles to keep peace in a society. Without these regulation life level of people in a society must decline. Low level of life increases frustration of citizens and they try to escape from the frustration by using ways such as drug and theft, which is regarded as illegal in the real society. As a result, incidents that deeply have bad influence can happen as slums around the world