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The Giver

                              Weird                                                                Good
                              No choices                                                    They are safe.
                              Job chosen for them.                                   No fighting.
                               The "Stirrings".                                             Volunteer Hours
                               No true love.                                                 Express feelings freely.
        "                     Family Units"                                                  Low crime rate.
                               Being "released".                                         No lieing.
                               The Pill.                                                          Closely knit community.
                               Birthmothers/Nurturers                               Not afraid of nudity.
                               All have same birthdays.                             Care for people they don't know.
                               They have numbers.                                     No pollution.
                               Parents don't name their children.            They don't break the rules.
                               They only have 12 birthdays.                       There is no pain.
                               They travel with bikes.                                 Don't hurt each other's feelings.
                               The "House of Old".                                      They apologize all the time.
                                Old people don't bathe themselves.         No unemployment.
                                                                                                        No poverty.
                                                                                                        They learn to be responsible at
                                                                                                                                                a young age.

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2/21 Notes: To create a perfect society, the Community has had to do the following things:

Control the following aspects of life: job/career choice, family growth/selection, ages are controlled, births are controlled, growth/puberty/emotions/feelings controlled. What else about the community is controlled?

"Release" the following people from their community: those who don't fit in, break the rules, those too weak/too old, or those
who do not want to be there.

All the children are made to be responsible members of the community. This is done by making them do "volunteer hours" as
children to discover what they are good at. After careful study, everyone is assigned a job based on their skills, so they can
all serve as useful members of the community.

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       Pat Jacobsen
     Chelcie Almeyda
      Emily Edwards
         Leo Moran
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