Comparing Jonas's World To Our Own

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The Giver- Expository Writing(Option 2) Contrast Jonas’s World to our own

In the book The Giver, Jonas’s Community is very weird. In our Community we seem to be the “normal” compared to Jonas’s Community. How different is our Communities? Is Jonas’s Community different? My first difference is the families. The way famililes(men,women, and possibly a son and/daughter) in Jonas’s Community are formed is by first applying for a spouse, which is chose by The Council of Gardians and then if you chose so you may applie for a child. If The Council og Gaurdians approve that you can have a child you recive a child born from a birthmother and the right age and after you can applie for a second child, but you can only have one boy and one girl. In
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Here in our Community we can predict the type of climate we will have using sadilites and radar. In Jonas’s Community they have climate control so they pretty much have the same type of climate year round. That means they don’t have much or any at all of rainfall. My final choice is about how people die and how funerals are done. In out Communitiy there are multipule ways to die. Some ways you could die are drowning,dieses, or old age. In Jonas’s Community there are barley any unplanned deaths and if there is was an “accident.” They “realse” you which is how they kill you by injecting you with a poison,but that is not what they call it. They call it going to “elsewhere.” This usally happens to the sick,born to small, or old. There are a lot of differences in our Community compared to Jonas’s Community. We get to chose our families which includes our spouse and children, but in Jonas’s Community you have to applie for a spouse and for children. You can also only applie for two children(a boy and a girl). We also celebrate birthdays differently then we do. We get presents and cake and we celebrate every year till we die. In Jonas’s Community they dont ge tpresents or cake, the name of the celebration is different, and they only celebrate till the age of twelve. Also they have climate control and in our Community we dont have climate control. Last in Jonas’s Community they kill people or well “relase” them becaus eof

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