Importance Of Rules And Punishments In The Giver

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In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the citizens must follow rules and punishments. How would you feel if you got hit with a punishment stick? In their society, they get hit with the stick if they are bad. If you are bad, then you must apologue in front of the whole society. One of the rules are that you must stay with your age group. In the Giver, Citizens have lots of rules and punishments that have both benefits and drawbacks. In the Giver, they have rules and punishments and some are harsh and some are not. Some rules are that females under nine that hair ribbons are to be neatly tied always and males at the age of eleven that objects are not to be removed from the recreation area and that snacks are to be eaten, not hoarded. Another

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