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Jonas Community In The Giver

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Jonas’ Community is very unusual compared to our modern American society. In the book “The Giver” the characters have to live a strict and controlled life. Everyone has to follow the community’s rules. On pages 10-11 it states, “Lily, you know the rules. Two children--one male, one female--to each family unit”. According to this quote the rule is that each family is assigned to have only one boy and one girl. In our society there is not a limit to a certain amount of kids and they can be any gender. “Lily, you’re very close to being an Eight, and when you’re an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children” (page 23). This explains to us that Lily’s stuffed elephant known as her comfort object will
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