The Giver, By Lois Lowry

Would there be a positive result if there was a population of 1,200,000,000 people and a food supply of only half that number? Clearly, there would be a major problem. Unfortunately, this problematic situation may happen in the future. The Malthusian Theory of population, created by Thomas Malthus, is the theory that the population will outgrow its resources, leading to famine. Malthus stated that the populations increase in geometric progression and that food supplies increase in arithmetic progression. Geometric progression is a progression of numbers with a constant ratio in between each number. For example, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. Arithmetic progression is when the difference between each number in a sequence of numbers is constant For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. On the other hand, there is a novel in which I have recently read, that shows a society having complete control of their population. …show more content…
Considering the fact that absolutely everyone appears and acts essentially the same, and there is very little competition and no bias. The society has also excluded choice. At the age of twelve, each and every member of the society is assigned a job primarily based on his or her skills and interests. Citizens can follow for and be assigned well suited spouses, and every couple is assigned precisely two children each. Everything is planned and prepared so that life is as suitable and pleasant as possible. However, the reason this utopian community strictly assigns each family only two children, may be because they are knowledgeable of having a limited supply of food for a certain number of people in their community and do not want their community to overpopulate and not have enough