The Giver is the story of a community that protects its citizens from pain, fear, making bad decisions, by taking away choice, privacy, love, even memories of the past. The problem with this is that then each person cannot be the self they cannot express himself and even though people are not hurt what is the point of living a boring life with no freedom because is our society there might be more danger but we can be yourself and do whatever be want and have our own job and choose our own life. We can even do the simplest things like picking out or clothes in the morning and we can make our life interesting and worth living. Also then history can repeat itself if we don’t know what we did wrong in the past. For example, “playing catch was
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The poem makes it like a cause and effect: The cause is that the teacher doesn’t teach his students history and the effect is that they are allowing history to repeat itself. For example, is the poem it says “Trying to protect his student's innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.” He is not telling them history because he is trying to protect his students but he is really just making then repeat history the poem also states, “The children would leave his classroom for the playground and torment the weak and the smart, messing up their hair and breaking their glasses.” This quote shows that since the teacher didn’t teach what is bad and not to do bad things the kids are now being mean to other students and even though this is not as big of steaks as wars, if when they are young they don’t know the consequences of being mean then when they are older they are older they can do worse things than being mean to kids on a playground. Also another quote is “while he gathered his notes and walked home” i think this quote is saying that the teacher just left and did not think or know he was doing anything wrong like is the giver nobody knows that they are doing anything wrong, because they don’t know about anything
The poem makes it like a cause and effect: The cause is that the teacher doesn’t teach his students history and the effect is that they are allowing history to repeat itself. For example, is the poem it says “Trying to protect his student's innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.” He is not telling them history because he is trying to protect his students but he is really just making then repeat history the poem also states, “The children would leave his classroom for the playground and torment the weak and the smart, messing up their hair and breaking their glasses.” This quote shows that since the teacher didn’t teach what is bad and not to do bad things the kids are now being mean to other students and even though this is not as big of steaks as wars, if when they are young they don’t know the consequences of being mean then when they are older they are older they can do worse things than being mean to kids on a playground. Also another quote is “while he gathered his notes and walked home” i think this quote is saying that the teacher just left and did not think or know he was doing anything wrong like is the giver nobody knows that they are doing anything wrong, because they don’t know about anything