The Giver Society parallels our society:
For this, I also wrote an essay about this topic!
There are many examples of text from our media that parralel the book, "The Giver". Some of these examples are articles about Edward Snowden, U.S. incarceration rates, Arizona's ban on books and songs such as Muse. All of these texts have strong evidence of how "The Giver" society parralels our society.
In Mr.Medina's class, we read about a guy named Edward Snowden, he got into a situation that parralels "The Giver" society. I found many reasons on why Snowdens situation parralels the society in "The Giver". My first fact is that both society's have surveillance. Snowden is being watched my United States for leaking information. In "The Giver", everyone is being watched my the chief elder's and most people who are important. Edward also released secrets about how the U.S Government spies on us and is a whistleblower. In "The Giver", Jonas has classified info/memories that he wants to reveal. Snowden is currently hiding in Moscow due to the United States not having access to Russia. Now as you can see, this is why both situations are very similar in many ways.
We also, in Mr.Medina's class, read in an article about incarceration. Incarceration is basically jailing people. In the article, it was mentioned that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world! These situations also parallel "The Giver" society. First, both society's have ways to control population. United States put's people in jail so it can all be controlled. While, "The Giver" society controls this why actually killing the residents after a certain age! In "The Giver", they call this, "releasing". A similar thing is used in United States when people are killed when given the Death Sentence. In conclusion, this is the reason why "The Giver" parallels our incarceration!
In the Giver, books are banned and cannot be read by anyone in the community. This is due because the people who are in
"charge" do not want the citizens of the community to become smart and aware of everything. Something similar is happening in a school district named Tucson Unified School Districts. This district has decided to ban books of the schools in this part of Arizona. The reason due is because the books were used to assist chicano students in need. However, they were banned. The supposed reason they did so was because they said, "These books provide a distraction to other students who are not chicano while seen in class". This proves that the district wants to keep the chicano's dumb and un-aware of everything! Incredible how this can happen, huh?!
"charge" do not want the citizens of the community to become smart and aware of everything. Something similar is happening in a school district named Tucson Unified School Districts. This district has decided to ban books of the schools in this part of Arizona. The reason due is because the books were used to assist chicano students in need. However, they were banned. The supposed reason they did so was because they said, "These books provide a distraction to other students who are not chicano while seen in class". This proves that the district wants to keep the chicano's dumb and un-aware of everything! Incredible how this can happen, huh?!
Overall, you can see how all of this info about our society can parallel a horrible society made in a book that is FAKE! It's time for us to rise up and become aware! We must become smart and aware of our surroundings! Only then, we will all be free of the government and it's grasp of knowledge it has taken from us!