Gathering Blue and Giver similarity paper

I am writing a paper on the similarities of the setting between two books, The Giver and Gathering Blue both by the same author Lois Lowry. To start off, in both of the books they have annual gatherings each year that start in the morning, are multiple hours long, have lunch and resting breaks and continue into the afternoon. During these gatherings or celebrations the celebrate their past and their maturity and age. Another likeness is that they both have a committee of elders or the people that make most of the decisions for the community. The elders create the rules, decide whether they will be be realesed or sent to the field. Both of the communities have a special building, where the annual gathering is, where they hold trials, where the committee lives. The communities also share the idea of forgetting death, they both have a way of forgetting it, murmurs and not caring but in all it is supposed to be out of their minds and forgotten. In the books the author infers that it is in the future because there would have to be very high technology to do all of that stuff. In either community they do not want imperfect people, such as, twisted/broken anything, mental problems, hearing/vision loss, very weak, light, if they have anything of the above they will either be sent to the field or be released. Together what they both share is that there is no true love, yes they care about each other, they mourn when the die, they take care of each other, but they don’t really have feeling of love towards one another.