The Giver By Lois Lowry: The Community Vs. Real World

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The Community Vs. Real World. In the Giver by Lois Lowry, the story is about a small community which is ideal, and everything is perfect. Everyone is happy with their lives. Jonas, the protagonist, also felt like that as well. He too, believed everything was perfect. But later on, he sees just how dangerous and terrible his community is. The community was seen as flawless at glance, but the dark side of it reveals what really happens. To begin, the community’s “surface” has a lot to it. People are assigned families. They don’t choose to get a spouse, they just have to be assigned one. To get a child, they are assigned one. This is very different from our world. In our world, people make families on their own. We obviously get to choose

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