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Back to 7B Yellow Group The Giver Journal #2 Choice plays one of the biggest roles in life. A large amount of the world’s population believes that having the ability to actually choose is a very wonderful thing, though most don’t notice that it can also be very dangerous. When people can choose, they have the ability to become bad. For example, if there was no choice, 9/11 probably wouldn’t have happened. The terrorists responsible for it would not have the choice to highjack the plane and fly it into the Twin Towers. Similarly, the man who murdered 32 innocent people in Virginia Tech last year chose to do so. Every bad thing that happens (not including natural disasters), occurs because of a certain person’s or a group of people’s choice. Also, when people have choice, they can choose what to wear or what to say, what to read or what to write, what to eat or what to drink, or even what to feel or what to think. In this way, certain people get picked on, because they don’t function in the same way the majority people do, making them less popular or separated. Although choice isn’t perfect, it is still an important thing to have. With no choice, life would be boring and everyday would be the same. If I couldn’t choose what to do, I wouldn’t play what I would want to play in recess. I wouldn’t pick what I’d want to pick. I wouldn’t like who I’d like to like if I had the choice to. In conclusion, choice like everything else is not perfect. It can be dangerous in one way but still a good thing in another.

Eran B.