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The giver Journal #2-Chapters 2-4


 * A**.#2

The families in Jonah's community are very different from the ones in our community. First of all the husband and wife are paired up, and the have no decision or say in who they marry. In our community most cultures can marry who they chose. Second the families in Jonah's community are given two children, one boy and one girl. They don't get to give birth to their own children, instead the birthmothers give birth to them and the babies are assigned names and families. In our community people are allowed to have as many or as least children as they choose. You can adopt by choice, not force, and you get to chose the names of your children. There are also many strange rules in Jonah's community. You have to be a nine to be able to get, and ride a bike. And when you are a nine if your a girl your hair ribbons get removed. Also when you are born you are given a comfort object, which is in there community an "imaginary creature" but which in our world are real animals, such as an elephant, or a hippo. But at age eight the comfort objects are taken away. In our community there are no strange rules like that. Also in Jonah's community people are not allowed to see eachother naked, unless the person is an elderly or a baby. That rule is kind of the same in our community. All these rules make our communities very different, in many ways. So it shows that are communities are not the same.


 * B** observation

I can observe by what I have read so far that this community had very many rules, that are difficult to follow.