The Giver Week of: 11/18/13

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Prompt: Compare where you live to the setting described in what you are reading.
 Compare this to your favorite book
Write a summary on what you read

Everyone is currently reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. It is a very interesting book! Some parts can be a little confusing but when we discuss in class, I fully understand. In the last chapters I read, I learn that Jonas is the main character. He is going to an age Twelve ceremony where he will be assigned his job. I learn that once you reach that age in their world, you are basically an adult.

 The setting is an important part in this book. They live in a utopia. It's a society in which it's what most people would think of as "perfect". There are many differences between their world than to ours. For example, their rules are extreme. They have age restrictions just like us, except it's not things like "no drinking until the age of twenty-one". An example is that they have something called a comfort object that is like a stuffed toy. These comfort objects are taken away from them at age Eight! It's pretty extreme because I know people at this age still have their stuffed teddy bear to comfort them (don't deny it!) The citizens of that society are assigned their jobs. Where we live, we are able to choose whatever we want to be depending on our education and age.

 The Giver reminds me a lot of Matched. In Matched, they live in a somewhat Utopia. Just like The Giver, they are assigned jobs. Some of the rules that they had in their world were also extreme. In Matched, they were assigned who they were going to marry. I know that in other countries there are such thing as arranged marriages, except the difference is that arranged marriages are usually from culture or religion.