If was there was people who chose my future for me, in good way, I would prefer that than choosing by myself. This is because, it will change my life into easier way than now. Usually, people face variety of problems. Sometimes, they could be especially challenging, or uncomplicated. For example, it is hard to decide which way to go when you are travelling in a place you are not familiar with, but if you had a map or a guide, it will have lead you to an easier way. Additionally, there are gigantic decisions you have to challenge and unnecessary ones. For example, choosing a job is important because it can affect your future greatly but deciding to eat a pie doesn't affect much to my future accept for the fact that you get you stomach filled.
In the book, I like how the community decides for their citizens or members for their age. Everything is perfect under the control of the Elders. Most of the people find happiness with their assessments. Everything matches with everyone correctly. I think that is a place where I want myself to be. Less disagreements, more pleasure, more peaceful, and safer than the world I am living in. However, as I keep thinking about it, I belief it will make my opinions less powerful and finally, I will lose ability to create an opinion.
As a result of these, I think the community in Giver is always gleeful place, different from our place where we learn every knowledge that we have to know and be happy as well as miserable by the truth. In my opinion, knowing everything including gloomy ideas will effect us to know the pure happiness because, as we know the more, we will realize what is valuable and when is the most joyful time. On the other hand, by being aware of troubles that we predict will happen, only makes us fear, frightened and dissuades ourselves from being brave and courageous. However, to earn real happiness I think we have to choose our future by ourselves.
Samuel,
ReplyDeleteGood work! It could easily see the ideas and opinions you shared in the discussion. You managed to touch another side of this question. Most would immediately answer no and think that there could only be negative effects. But you took the time to think this through and discover that that was not the case. I was one of the people that immediately looked at the question and said no. After reading your blog post, I was opened up to another point of view.
The only criticism I have is about the part about eating pie. If it is an example (I think it is) you should of picked an example that had some of relationship with 'choosing a job is important to future'. Pie has nothing to do with this!
Other than that I thought overall it was good.
Stephanie
You know what? I think you really explained your points of views well, and I could understand you. But I think that You kind of jumped straight into your points, next time, it might sound better if you slowly brought us to your point, Just saying that it would sound better, Other than that, the " missing introduction thing" I also like to comment on the part about the pIe, I didn't know what that meant the first time I read it, but I understood that you made a connection from the previous sentence , I thought that that was pretty neat, so good job!
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