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Symbolism In The Giver

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Many people wish that they lived in a “better world”, but what exactly is a perfect or better world. In the book The Giver, a boy named Jonas lives in a society that to its citizens it portrays as a perfect world, where everyone seems equal. Along his life, Jonas discovers new faults to this “perfect society”. Including the government controlling everything to the point that the community cannot see color because they have no memory of it. “Everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called color” (Lowry 94). The government also genetically changes unborn living organisms so that everyone has the same color hair and eyes as everybody else. People living in this society have their choices given to

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