In the book The Giver, there is a world full of completely oblivious people. They have no connection to the outside world; hell they think that their little town is the only world. I feel that their form of government is wrong for shielding the peoples eyes like that I don’t think that it is helping anybody, it is actually killing people because in their attempts to keep people ignorant they have to kill people to do so. An example of this is when the old receiver filed for release because she couldn’t deal with the reality. By shielding their community from the harsh reality the elders made a problem of when this reality gets through not only do the people not know what to do they don’t really know what to do.
I also think that in Jonas’s case people are being fed lies on a silver platter and when one person refuses to take that food and eat it, they die. An example of this is when the plane crashed into the city. They didn’t know what to do so they killed the plane driver. They die because the government wouldn’t know how to deal if people stopped believing what they were told and if they wanted to not be in this community anymore and go out and basically have free will.
In our case though I think it is different because our government doesn’t forcibly block our thoughts and… wait never mind they do or at least on some occasions but that’s not what I meant. They don’t forcibly make it so that we are ignorant we choose to do that ourselves and I don’t really understand why. I think that it may be because since it doesn’t directly affect us we don’t really seem to give a damn.
I think that we as Americans are sort of disconnected from the world I mean really think about it. (Everywhere else uses centimeters but we use inches.) So many people are ignorant about the world outside in other countries; the only reason people know what happened in Haiti is because of the people on the news.
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