The Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. If living in a world where being different is a transgression then it’s not a world worth living. In these novels you will see how the characters have been blindsided by the Government most of their lives. “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see…” as stated in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand. Sometimes being assigned isn’t the same as wishing when wishing is considered breaking the law.Time and time again the Government always seems to have an impact on how people act. Some people think that their government is there to protect them, when really they are controlling them, treating them like their own private puppets that only do what the government wants them to or tells them to.The Government controls every aspect of your life ,that is if you let them. In the quote “we closed our eyes, and we held our lips shut, and we stopped our breath, that no shudder might let our brothers see or hear or guess, and we thought that we wished to be sent to the Home of the scholars.”& “ But we knew that they were alive, …show more content…
Freedom, that is what people see, but is that really what they see or a lie. For example, in the Giver Jonas thinks “When two, a female named inger, received her assignment as Birthmother, Jonas remembered that his mother had called it a job without honor. But he thought that the committee had chosen well.” You can clearly notice that they aren’t free to choose what they want to be or so the committee of Elders (government) chooses for everyone at the ceremony of twelve. No matter what the government will always control a part of their