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The Giver: Would you like your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?

I have chosen this question because I thought it was a pretty tough one after you think about for a while. At first everyone thinks no because you want to have a choice of what you want to do. But sometimes it might be good to not have to make such big decisions. Maybe you do know what you want, so then it's great to be able to choose. But if you don't, it's much easier to have someone to make the decision for you.

I finally decided that I don't want choices to be made for me by someone else. I want some kind of freedom in life, not too much freedom but at least enough to make certain decisions. I realized that instead of having someone else make the enitre choice for me, I think I'd rather have someone helping me to choose. Like my mom or my dad could help me to figure out the choices, but then I could still decide by myself what I think is right for me. You would still have someone there you can depend on to help, but you can still make your own choices. For example in The Giver, Jonas is starting to wonder about all the decisions the Elders make and starts to question things about his "perfect" town. He can't make any choices for himself. Nothing at all! Jonas is starting to worry about the job he is going to be assigned to. He's afraid that he will be disappointed with his job. I think he started to question why he's not allowed to choose his own job.

I'm a logic type of person, so I like things to be given to me in a certain order and I want to know how to do things, but sometimes I also want to mix it up and not have things in order and just play with stuff. I sometimes feel that way about choices too. Sometimes I want to be able to just do things that someone else I trust thinks is right for me, but sometimes I feel like I want to do what I like, not what you want me to do. As I said, if I had to choose one, I would rather make my own decisions. I think Jonas feels the same. I think he may be happy that others can choose what job he has to do because he said he doesn't really know what he wants to do. But I also think he kind of wants to choose his job too because he's scared that he won't like the job that's selected for him. In general, I am convinced that he wants to make his own choices. Just like me!

As a conclusion, I would like to make my own decisions, but with help from others. If that is a choice. Otherwise I would choose to make my own decisions in general. In my opinion, I think Jonas might feel the same way. How do you feel about this question?