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Argumentative Essay On The Giver

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Living in a perfect world can not always be perfect. Our society is much better than a utopia, because people today have a world full of happiness and things to enjoy everyday, people learn more about the world and change it every day because of many resources there are, and there are holidays to bring our society joy and have help everyone through the pain in the world.

Our society today is better than Jonas’s community because people have a world full of happiness and things to enjoy everyday. On page 80 of The Giver by Lois Lowry it states, "But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it?" "Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn 't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.” This quote explains that people can enjoy color and weather while Jonas 's community they can not. In Jonas’s community they created sameness and climate control to take away weather and color. Color and weather can help our mood and how the population is feeling. On page 168 it states, “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too.” Another reason that our society is better is because people have music to listen to. This explains to everyone that Jonas has
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