The Giver: Dystopian Vs. Modern Society

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Would you like to have a world where everything is the same and that you couldn't choose to do your own things? There is this dystopian society that is not like our society that you would not like to live in, it is way completely different than our modern day society. Like in the book The Giver, Jonas’ dystopian is different, they can only have a boy and girl, have jobs at the 12. On the other hand, in our society is different. we can choose are things in life, have as many kids as we want.
They don't have the freedom to choose, but it's important to have freedom of choose for yourself for no can tell you what to do and what wear, how to have your hair. Unlike our society we have freedom and get to choose things in life. For Example, in the

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