The Giver Journal Question

What type of personality traits would make someone successful and happy in the ‘Giver’ society? Which of your traits would help you and which would make it more difficult?

I think that if you were to life in the ‘Giver’ society you would have to be an easy going naïve person. You are unable to question in the ‘Giver’ so you would it would not be helpful if you were independent or if you always wanted an explanation for everything.

I think that the fact that I am kind of an observer could be helpful. I think that being able to see things and understand them would help a lot in the ‘Giver’ society. I am sometimes (when I want to) able to blend in to crowds and be less noticeable. I think that this could help because in the ‘Giver’ society no one is supposed to stand out or be different.

A few personality traits that might make life in the ‘Giver’ society a little more challenging would be my independence, questioning, sarcasm, sense of humor and how I like to ‘challenge’ authority.

It would be hard to live in a society where everyone is the same when you have an independent personality. I do not like to be doing what everyone else is doing all the time so being forced to do the same things as everyone else would really bother me. I find it weird when people wear the same clothes or do the same hair styles as everyone around them and that is what happens in the ‘Giver’ society. I prefer to stand out and be different.

In class I almost never let anything go by with out asking a question about it. In the ‘Giver’ society you are not allowed to ask questions about pretty-much everything. I do not like it when I get a simple answer that does not really answer the question that I asked. Simple answers are the only answers anyone gets in this book. Outside of class I ask people questions too. It would be very hard for me to stop being curious about life and everything that goes on.

I find it weird how in the ‘Giver’ society you are not allowed to exaggerate or joke about anything. I enjoy joking around about stuff and being sarcastic. Without jokes life is boring and bland. It would be very hard for me to not be sarcastic or make a joke about something in a day.

I do not like to follow rules that I find do not make sense. If a rule does not make sense to me I would either disobey it or question it. In the ‘Giver’ society all rules must be obeyed. I would probably get released fast because I can see myself breaking over three rules in one day! It would be hard to switch from a freedom to strict rules.

I think that moving to the ‘Giver’ society would not be a good idea for me because I would have a bit of a problem with one or two rules…. Or maybe a few more!