Quotes 1

"It is one thing to make a choice, 

and it is another thing to never have 

the chance."

I chose this quote because it speaks the truth: when making a choice, you can weigh the options, see what you think is best for you, and select it. Sure, only you can be blamed for making the wrong decision, but you are also the one to be credited for making the correct decision. However, when someone else makes decisions for you, you cannot know if there is ever anything better, that could have been yours.

I think this quote represents this section (the middle of the middle), because that is what it is all about. Choices make us who we are, and without even the option to do so, we aren't unique. This reminds me of being a child. When you are young, your parents make all the decisions for you; what you eat, what you wear, how you spend you day... However, this is only because as toddlers, humans are incapable of knowing what they should do, and need constant nurturing so they would eventually make decisions for themselves. This inability to make you own decisions also relates to the current political situation in North Korea. This is a country that has a totalitarian government whose citizens have one of the lowest-ranking human rights records of any country. Political expression is tightly controlled in North Korea. Anyone who deviates government decisions is sent to labor camps, set aside for that purpose. A book that is similar to Matched is the Giver (by Lois Lowry). Here, everything is gray and colorless. There is no creativity, amusement or free thinking. People are given their work placements based on past research done by members of the higher class. People are given no choice as to who they marry or where they work.