Response To The Giver

In the book "The Giver" the message this book was trying to send out is that everyone should have the rights to make decisions of their own. Because people learn from their mistakes, in some places in the world even people today can not make their own decisions. The another's purpose of writing this book is that people. In the book "The Giver" the author explains clearly that Jonas wants to make his own decisions. “Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake to wake up I'm the morning and decide things!” (Pg.97). Along in the book the society is afraid, it's afraid because people might make the wrong decisions in life such as choosing your own job and your mate. The author is trying to tell us people learn from their mistakes. The giver explains that “It wouldn't matter for a newchild's toy. But it does matter, doesn't it? We don't care to let …show more content…
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