Giver Essay

      The Giver is a very unrealistic story. In their Community, there is no love, no color, and everyone is the same. How realistic it that? Is it even possible?
      In The Giver there is no color; no color at all. The apples aren't red. The sky isn't blue. The grass isn't green. Lois Lowry describes an apple as the same "nondescript shade" as the characters shirt. Can you imagine our world without color; a dull lifeless shade of gray everywhere you look? It would also stink that you wouldn't be able to ask anybody their favorite color. I think the Community was wrong to abolish all color, but not only that. How do you rid the world of color? It's easy, you can't.
      The Community in The Giver has no love. Everyone in their Community takes a pill that eliminates their affection for someone. The people that run the Community feel that love is bad. That it makes people different and has complications. This is true, but is it worth is to take away the one thing that makes life worth living? I don't think so.
      In The Giver everyone born within the same year has the same birthday, December. The kids, every year, get one thing for their birthday. When you are 9, you get a bike. When you are 10, almost all of your hair gets cut off. When you are 12, you start the work the Elders have assigned you. You don't get to pick.
      When you are in the Community, you don't get to choose anything. Everything gets chosen for you. Your spouse, your child, your stuffed animal. The Giver is unrealistic because no community is really like that.