Examples Of Genocide In The Giver

More people were killed in the Holocaust then there were people living in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and San Francisco combined in 2012 (citymayors.com). In the book The Giver, there is a community where there are no feelings, no emotions, no color. Everyone is the same. In this world, when someone hits a certain point of their life, they are released. This is ironic because everyone in the community, except The Giver and Jonas, think that when someone is released they go out into a different and better place, when in reality the reader knows that when they are released, they actually die. This is an example of a genocide. Genocide is a terrible thing that should never happen in The Giver or The Real World. To begin with, some evidence from The Giver by Lois Lowry that proves that genocide is a

A prime example of just how much genocide can cost economically comes in the form of The Holocaust, World War 2, and Nazi Germany. “After the holocaust, it was believed that initially the Allies suggested that Germany owed up to $320 billion in filed reparation claims. This was a total which they shortly realized could not be fulfilled by Germany at the time, especially with the added World War I debt. In 1952, Germany's post-war debts were written down to just under billion 7 deutsche marks, or 3 billion dollars.” This means that after World War II ended, countries came together and made Germany pay 3 billion dollars. This made them not able to do extra things to help the country as much such as building roads and schools. In the same way as before, in The Giver people have jobs just like in the real world. So by releasing, or more accurately killing people, The Givers society is losing lots of production and money. Such as in the case of the twins. If they both stayed, they would have had one more person to help the society. And although it may not sound like a lot, it adds up