The_Giver_Essay

The Giver Essay The author, Lois Lowry, develops many interesting thoughts and issues for the responder to consider which do lead to a broadened understanding of the self and world. The concept of euthanasia and suicide are an interesting concept of this book. An important part of building a utopia, in this book is that the elderly need to be ‘put down’ as though they were merely a family pet, this is accepted because it is believed it releases a person into a different ‘community’, although wacky as it may seem, it is not all that different from beliefs in heaven and hell. I personally think that this is immoral and outright age discrimination, although I feel it is better to assist in a painless suicide rather than a self-inflicted and painful death. In the book, the importance of a family unit is highly emphasized, attempting to show the importance of a caring family. This has some rather adverse affects in the novel including: the requirement to apply for a spouse, the government feel that spouses should be carefully matched the Government does this. The Government perform a similar procedure to have a child, each family is matched family, government, although, novel, child, book, away, community, world, understanding, suicide, society, responder, regimented, rather, personally, people, one, memories, matched, live, interesting, importance, giver, feel, each, different, concept, community’, change, carefully, bring, birth-mother