the one in “The Giver”. In Lois Lowry’s “The Giver”, the author portrays a society in which there is absolute control of the choices made by the citizens. Lowry describes how this community is under the control of an utilitarian type of government that controls what jobs the citizens will have, what foods they will eat, how many children they will have, the extent of language they will use and most of all, the access of their past generations’ memories. This reduces the community to a state in which