Jonas Society Vs American Society

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This writing is about comparing and contrasting about our society and to Jonas's Society.

Our society is better than Jonas’ society because in his society they have a lot of rules and they were controlled by sameness. The rules are very strict like : members of the community are not allowed to leave the community, No one is supposed to have strong feelings and more strict rules that keep the people in Jonas’ the same.

One of the difference between our society to Jonas’ society was when children turned twelve years old (Jonas’ Society) ,they were celebrating the ceremony called “The Ceremony of Twelve” that means that they will become “adult” and they were assigned you to work (they pick your job), It says on the book is that , ”The initial speech at ceremony of twelve was made by the chief elder, the leader of the community was elected every ten years .The speech was much same each year recollection of the time of childhood and period of preparation, the coming responsibilities of adult life ,the profound importance of assignment ,the seriousness of training to come”. This quote supporting my thinking because this quote was saying that if the children turned twelve in jonas’ society children must be prepared to to become an adult and be prepared to work that was assigned to them.
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On The Giver book it says that, “Two children- one male,one female- to each family unit “. But in our society you can have kids as many as you want and any

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