This passage from the book The Giver by Lois Lowry comes after Jonas has accepted the job as the new receiver in the dystopian society. This is when Jonas is talking to the people and speaking out about the fact that he wishes that there was still color so the people could enjoy the color and they could have the pleasure and feeling to chose between different colors. But the government quickly shoots down this idea that Jonas has, this shows the dystopianess of the society. They said that if people were allowed to choose their own colors then they would be gaining too much freedom and then they would want to chose who they marry and they would want to choose their own jobs. The government said that these choices and decisions are a big part of people’s lives and if we let the people have more freedom then their decisions could be disastrous. This shows the power that the government holds over the people in the society.
My reaction to this passage is that the people should be allowed to make their own decisions. The government shouldn’t interfere with people’s lives, it’s their own life and they should be able to live their life anyway they want to and the government should have no say in what they say or the things that they do. The government says that they want to control the people in case they make wrong decisions because their decisions could be disastrous. But my point f view on this subject is that if the people do make bad decisions then they should learn from their bad decisions so they won’t make those same mistakes again. But if they keep making the same mistake over and over again then the government should be able to take action and put in place their rules and regulations.
The purpose of this passage is to show you how the government likes to control people in their society, they like to be in control and if they are not in control then they feel like they are not in power. Since the government is living in so much power it causes the people to live in fear because they know that the government is controlling them and if they do something wrong or mess up then they are going to be punished because of the strict rules and regulations in the dystopian society. The specific techniques used to achieve this purpose are words like “wrong choices” and “we really have to protect people from wrong choices.” These phrases suggest the strictness is Jonas’s society. This also acknowledges that Jonas recognizes that his society is bad and people are making the “wrong choices.” But in a community that is as strict as Jonas’s people can damage the society if they make the “wrong choices” so as a result in order to keep the society running smoothly the people have to abide by all of the rules that the government puts in place. This passage has a negative connotation, it is taking about the government controlling people and how the people cannot live free because of the strict control by the government. Also in this passage the literary technique of asking questions is being used, by asking questions the reader is proposed with new ideas in their heads that they might have never thought of before. It provides the reader with a different view on an aspect and could provide a solution to a problem.
In this novel so far the word “human” means that the government controls you, your rights are limited by the government and the government allows you not to be free. The “humans” are living in fear because of the government and the government is putting the people in fear. The “humans” in this dystopian society remind me of robots because they have to do what the government tells them to do, if they don’t do it then there are punishments that they are going to receive.
Our depictions of the future reveal that the present is a lot easier than what the future could hold, nobody knows what the future is going to look like but if it is like anything that is described in this book then it won’t be good. The government will control the people and people will live miserable lives because nobody wants the government to control them, people want to live freely and be able to do the things that they want to do without anyone telling them different. We use language and images to manipulate people’s minds by showing them certain things to make them believe it because people are so gullible, but in actuality the thing that they are seeing, they aren’t interpreting it correctly. So false acquisitions are taken place.
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