Control or Power?- The Giver

I picked the theme of control because my book, The Giver, has many instances that relate to control. First the people don’t have memories and the community chooses and gives them everything that they need in their lives. The community has also been able to take all feelings that people have for other people even the family unit that they live with. The founders of the community even went as far as too control the landscape and weather. In the begging of the community there must have been some control but now it just seems to have slipped away. There are a group of elders that may decide the outcome on a couple of problems but for the most part not even they have any control over anything at all. In the novel it seems as though the whole idea of control or the concept has been taken away but control still lives on in the people’s lives. The only person in the entire novel that has any control what so ever is the giver and the receiver both of which at some times have memories and can choose to make decisions about their lives. Control is the main theme in this novel even though at times there doesn’t seem to be any control at all.