Monday, May 25, 2009

Problems fixing: Giver Community

A problem in my life is about the population. The population is growing and there are more and more people who are keep on having childs. Population is growing by numerous numbers and it has to be stopped some way. If there are too much population there would be more polution and not enough resources and space to live for everyone. For instance, population in China has  become a big problem. They had to stop that by making a very sad rule of having only 2 children. 

The solution they used in the Giver is to have babies adopt and give each familes certain amount of babies so the population will stop growing. It is like Gabriel, Jonas and Lily was adopted and given to their parent too. The children are given to their parents. Also every children gets a job and things like bicycle at the same time. For example, Jonas was picked as the reciever who recieves the memories from the giver keeps other people's memory.

The community used a good way and it is much better than the rule of China. But the bad thing is that the parents can't have their own baby. That's what I didn't like about this book. Parents can't have their real baby. The have to give their baby away and get others. That's what was so sad. The parents wouldn't have a baby that doesn't match anything with them. It would be really sad for me to have a adopted baby.

1 comment:

mjh said...

Yes, you've identified the problem very well, that of overpopulation. You've also correctly told how the society of The Giver has solved it. Now you are saying you would not want to be a part of that solution. Most of us may feel that way, but how would we come up with a different/better solution?