The Giver Research Paper

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The Giver teaches us that love is essential. When the Giver transmits the Christmas memory to Jonas, Jonas learns of a feeling that his community is devoid of, love. “ ‘I liked the feeling of love,’ he confessed… ‘I wish we still had that,’ he whispered.(158)” Jonas now truly understands what the community has been missing, and what the community should be like. Without love, the community could never completely experience loss, therefore the release system survived and no one questioned it nor thought badly of it. Love is what makes us living, without it we only survive. The family units are, quite obviously, not family. There is no genetic connection, no attachment, between the members so they all are, at best, friends. Most importantly

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