Stereotypes In The Giver And Communism

Wearing the same clothes as everyone else would be boring and having little food due to rationing would not be fun. Communism is an economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals. In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. The Soviet Union, China, Russia, Ukraine are some of the old communist countries throughout history. China, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba are still a communist countries today. Communism is considered negative because there is a strong government control, little motivation for individuals to better themselves, limited individual freedom and protection of inefficient people or producers. The Giver is about a boy, Jonas, that lives in a seemingly idyllic world of conformity and contentment. When he begins to spend time with the Giver, an old man, who is the sole keeper of the community's memories, Jonas discovers the dangerous truths of his community's secret past. Armed with the power of knowledge, Jonas realizes that he must escape from their world to protect himself and those he loves. Phillip Noyce directed the Giver on August 11, in 2014, the Giver portrays …show more content…
It has economic equality, rationing, and population control within it. Economic equality in the Giver is that they are all considered equal. They have the same clothes, they see in black and white and they all have to take medicine so they don’t have emotions or feel pain. Rationing in the Giver is when they all had the same food and only had few choices to eat. Like a little bit of rice, green beans and meat. Population control in the Giver is when the old were killed or “released to elsewhere.” All the dwellings have two parents and two children. They also killed the babies that weighed less than the