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The Giver Vs Modern American Society

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In the Dystopian Novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas’s society is very different from the Modern American Society. In Jonas’s society everyone’s birthday is in December “He had waited a long time for this special December”(Lowry 5). The whole community comes to a ceremony to celebrate the kids growing up. Everyone is very excited especially when they get assigned a job “I remembered how proud my parents looked - and my sister, too; even though she wanted to be out riding the bicycle publicly, she stopped fidgeting and was very still and attentive when my turn came”(Lowry 14). Getting a job was the biggest gift they could get it was everything they wanted just waiting for their name to be called and assigned a job. The whole community comes
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