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Releases are a giant negative if you're going to live in the Community in The Giver. A release happens when someone in the Community breaks the rules three times, is too old, when twins are born (the lighter one's released) or if you apply for release. A release is when you gets injected with a clear liquid in the vein and it that kills you quickly. The reason that releases are a major problem is with a release no one in the Community knows that people are being killed they just think people leave the Community. Secondly, the Community doesn't care that their killing citizens. Some examples from the story are when Jonas’s dad releases one twin, he injects the kid with the dye and throws him down a trash shoot and doesn't care or realize he just killed a kid. Another example showing how awful releases are is when Jonas sees the recording of his dad performing a release ceremony (when someone gets released), Jonas begins to understand how corrupt the Community real is. The last example was a release that failed, Gabe a little boy who was staying with Jonas and his family because he couldn't live in the nurturing center was scheduled for a release but Jonas who had a plan to run away from the Community took Gabe with him to keep him from dying. All of these examples and facts about the Community show one of their many flaws, this one being releases. Another negative about living in the Community is “sameness” and climate control.
Sameness and Climate Control are two of the biggest reasons the Community is an awful place to live in. Sameness is the theory of everything being the same in the Community. Sameness is a horrible thing because it doesn’t let citizens have their own authentic identity (everyone would be almost the same) and...

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...everyone has what they need but in the Community everything is provided so you can’t need anything more. Another thing that prevents crime and fighting is that there is no religion. If there were religion people would fight over the differences, which would cause fights or even wars. Religion is also one of the largest reasons people fight in our world, and without one no one can complain that their religion needs to have a bigger role in the government or that you won’t let anybody from this religion be in the government which helps the Community a lot. Lots of things help prevent war and violence in the Community, which makes it a lot safer for the citizens of the Community. Overall there are many positives to go along with many negatives in The Giver. The biggest positive is the lack of violence in the Community, which makes it a lot better of a place to live in.

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