The Giver Book Report

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What do you think about The Giver? The book The Giver is about a communist community where they remove all freedom and love. This community is horrible because of its lack of freedom. This lack of freedom is caused by the fact that they don’t allow them to apply for jobs, and they release them if they mess up or are now useless. The main reason the community is so bad is because of what they do to the unfit young, twins, the old, or those who mess up more than three times. This is called “release” in this book. It is when they inject them with a cyanide that kills them instantly . Once they are dead they put them in a clear box and throw them into the trash. This community treats their residents like slaves because the force them to build

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