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The Giver Research Paper

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Family Life in The Giver
A family is the place where we feel the most comfortable in. The people we trust the most are our families, although, we also have problems with our families. What is your concept of a perfect family life? It might be a family life without arguments or a family life without siblings. In The Giver, Lois Lowry created a perfect family life in order to form a perfect community. The family life in The Giver has equality of the family members, respect and honesty in every condition. The families are seen and used as temporary facilities for next generations to be raised as people who are useful for the community. With all these benefits, it also has a lot of drawbacks. It is a family life without love, sincerity, connection …show more content…

In the community that Jonas lives, any kind of emotion is restricted which causes lack of connection between family members. Despite all the sharings of dreams and feelings and the attempts of the leaders to make the families unite, the families cannot connect without the most essential thing in a family, emotions. In our world, we consider loving someone and not having them love you back is one of the worst things. When Jonas asked “Do you love me?” to his parents, they were shocked. They tried to answer his question about the “meaningless” word, love, but they couldn’t because they weren’t able to understand what love is (159). Imagine not being able to tell your parents or your siblings that you love them. Imagine being the furthest from the ones that you thought you were the closest with. As bad as this family life is, it also has advantages. Although, the relationship between family members has a deficiency in emotions, this actually makes the family members separate easily when the time comes, like Jonas said, “When adults of the community became older, their lives became different. They were no longer needed to create family …show more content…

While we have a lot of inequalities about gender, age and a lot of other things, the families in The Giver don’t have any inequalities in their families. Neither the men nor the women are looked down. The chores in the house are equally divided among family members. Both the parents are equally dominant as oppose to our world. With the rules, there is no privacy and the family members always have to be honest with each other in the family. Since the family members are always respectful and honest with each other, there is no physical or mental violence in the families. Therefore, children and the parents don’t experience pain or sadness in their families and the children come out from the families with good

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