The Giver Altruism

The Influence of Altruism Against the Evil of the World
A civil rights activist named Martin Luther King Jr. once declared “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” King contemplates the issue of those who choose to condone the evil and injustice they see in the world, stating that those who grow complacent with the evil are comparable to those who cause the evil themselves. He condemns those who stand passively as others are mistreated or taken advantage of. In the same vein, an Irish salesman by the name of Edmund Burke proclaimed “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Jonas realizes and chooses to leave the town, but as he does, he hears that Gabriel, a child his father is currently in care for, “will…be released... First thing tomorrow morning”, as he is an underdeveloped infant. Jonas takes Gabriel with him as he bikes off out to “Else-where” (165-166). As they reach “Else-Where” Jonas remarks about himself being able to “remember [this] place” but the experience “was not the grasping of a thin and burdensome recollection…[the experience] was different” and “for the first time” he “heard something he knew to be music… he heard people singing”(178-180). Jonas realizes the fallacies within the dystopia of the “town” he lives in, and runs away, reliving the town of an important role they rely on. As he finally reaches elsewhere with the baby, he realizes that this was familiar in a way unlike the memories he was given, however, this was something else entirely, a memory he has actually experienced. He begins to fathom
According to the article “Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller says there was 'no racism' before Obama” in The Guardian, Kathy Miller, an American citizen and chair of the Trump Administration states “there was ‘no racism’...black people who have not succeeded...only have themselves to blame.” She believes that black people didn’t actually suffer at the hands of mistreatment from whites or exclusion from common day utilities. They were their own perpetrators of discrimination and had caused their own fall in society. However, the belief racism did not exist is a very erroneous and misconstrued opinion due to the events that transpired after and during the Civil War. The Civil War was a time in America’s history where people fought over whether slavery and the inhumane treatment towards other races were justified. The novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor documents a story in which black people stand up to racism during the 1930s in Mississippi. During the story, the father of the Logan family, the main group of protagonists within the story, comes home with “the most formidable-looking being [they] had ever encountered... his skin, of the deepest ebony” and as they talk to him they learn he “got fired off [his] job” due to him getting in a