The Giver, TRJ #4

WRITER'S CRAFT(foreshadowing)- What could happen to our world, similar to Jonas's world, in the future?

Jonas’s world is a futuristic society where everything is the same and people in the society only does what they are told to do. They wear clothes depending on their ages, they eat the same meal, they ride the same bicycles, they can only see black and white colors, they don’t have any memories of the world before their society existed, and they can’t make choices of their own, and so on. Also, people couldn’t choose their own family. Even though it feels tight, this world is a utopian country for those living in the society. They had no pain and there weren’t any discrimination. The people in the present time would never be able to live that way, and Jonas and his friends won’t be able to survive in our world either.
When I read this book, I thought that this could happen to our world somehow: the sameness, no memories, and no choices. There is no pain in Jonas’s world, because they basically don’t know anything bad, but nor happiness. Although there is no pain in the society, I would not live there because it would be depressing to live in a society without happiness. Well, for people in Jonas’s world, they were able to live through their life because they didn’t know what happiness is, but they would have been living without any true meanings of life. It’s like living without any destination because the government gives you everything you need to live, but the government controls everything, even the lives of people. From these thoughts, I realized how important how one’s personality and individuality is.