There are unfair things in life that can be difficult, and you can choose to do something about it or you can choose to do nothing. Both characters in the book “The Giver” and Kesha’s song “Praying” choose to take action. Jonas in “The Giver” sees how unfair his community is so he decides to leave. In Kesha’s song a young woman leaves an abusive and unfair relationship. In both of these texts, we learn that you should act on something that you know isn’t right.

A theme that could work for both texts is, things may seem perfect but their actually unfair and flawed. In “The Giver” Jonas is one of the only ones that sees how unfair his community is and so he decides to do something about. So he leaves and saves another character in the story. In “Praying” it states, “No more monsters, I can breathe again.” This shows that she saw her ex as a “monster” and she doesn’t see him anymore, and she saved herself for leaving the relationship.

There are things that are different in both texts. In “The Giver” Jonas doesn’t have some one that him loved trying to hurt him. Unlike in “Praying” the young woman loved the “monster”. When Jonas left that made things worse, but when the young woman left that made things improve. In the song it states, “Well, you were wrong and now the best is yet to come.”

In conclusion both texts, the giver and praying, show that leaving is best is if something is unfair like a messed up community or an abusive relationship.

Lois Lowry’s suspenseful story, “The Giver” is about one of many little communities that live in the future with clouds, and see everything in black and white. While Jonas is the main character and lives with his mother, father, and younger sister. Jonas becomes the receiver at the 12 ceremony, and learns memories and secrets about the community, that no one else knows but him, the Giver and the elders. One lesson of this story is, what may seem perfect can be unfair and flawed.

This theme gets built from the beginning of the story by the author. Everything was set up to seem as if the community was perfect, with all of the rules, but that changed after the 12 ceremony. When Jonas became the receiver he saw the communities flaws and how unfair it really was. He found out what getting released really means, and how the elders are keeping secrets from the people of the community.

By the middle of the story, the reader begins to see the flaws of the community. One example is when Jonas stops taking his pills, that the elders give to everyone. In the book Jonas thinks to himself, “I just had this feeling to stop taking them.” When he did stop, he started seeing color, unlike everyone else. But why would the elders not want the people to see in color? Another example is one of the babies Jonas’s dad brought home from work. His name is Gabe, and he won’t sleep at night, all he does is cry. So when Jonas found out that Gabe was going to be released, he saved him.

Although only a few people see the unfairness, like Jonas, Gabe, and the giver, everyone else thinks it’s perfect. The people of the community that don’t know what’s really going on, see the community as they have always seen it. Following the rules, seeing black and white, and no lying is all they have ever known. They can’t see the bad where they live. All this information supports the theme of the story “The Giver” which is, What may seem perfect can be unfair and flawed.