Compare And Contrast Arizona Society And Modern Day Society
Would you rather live in Jonas’s society or modern day society? I would want to live in Jonas’s society and modern day society, at the same time because in Jonas’s society you don’t get hurt, but in Jonas’s society you have a lot of differences from modern day society. For instance, in Jonas’s society you have to share your birthday with your whole community. In modern day society you don’t have to share your birthday with anyone. There rules and laws are different to, if they do something they know they're not supposed to do they get released. In our society you just get punished for what you did. Also there family unit is different than modern day society. It’s different because in their society they can only have two adults and two kids but in our society you can have how many kids if you wanted too.
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In the Giver, everyone’s birthday is celebrated on the same day, “ Each December, all the new children born in the previous year turned one” ( Lowry, 14). In modern day society, everyone has different birthdays on different days. In Jonas’s society, they all have to go to a ceremony, “The entire community attended the Ceremony each year. For the parents, it meant two days’ holiday from work; they sat together in the huge hall. Children sat with their groups until they went, one by one, to the stage” (Lowry, 41). Instead of ceremonies in modern day society we have birthday parties. In Jonas’s society, they stop counting at the age of twelve, “ Well, it's the last of the Ceremonies, as you know. After twelve, age isn’t important. Most of us even lose track of how old we are as time passes” ( Lowry, 17). That doesn’t happen in our society we never stop counting your
In the Giver, everyone’s birthday is celebrated on the same day, “ Each December, all the new children born in the previous year turned one” ( Lowry, 14). In modern day society, everyone has different birthdays on different days. In Jonas’s society, they all have to go to a ceremony, “The entire community attended the Ceremony each year. For the parents, it meant two days’ holiday from work; they sat together in the huge hall. Children sat with their groups until they went, one by one, to the stage” (Lowry, 41). Instead of ceremonies in modern day society we have birthday parties. In Jonas’s society, they stop counting at the age of twelve, “ Well, it's the last of the Ceremonies, as you know. After twelve, age isn’t important. Most of us even lose track of how old we are as time passes” ( Lowry, 17). That doesn’t happen in our society we never stop counting your