The Giver - Sameness

If we were all the same there would be no wars unless there was a resistance of anti-sameness citizens. Everybody would watch the same sports, go to selected vacations by the giver, and have stupid ceremonies where the parents say the newchild's name 30 times when their first baby dies by falling into river. I wouldn't be proud of my accomplishments, because job pay would be the same as most people in my occupation. There would be no military superpower like USA. There would be no 33 people died at Virginia Tech because of a Chinese physco's shooting-spree. There would be no Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Fusion or fission bombs would be unlikely. What is wrong with The Giver is every time Jonas stares up in the sky and see a military fighter jet...People think there may war in the past or present. These citizens take every jet seriously. Everybody would play the same non-violent videogames, and the only R movies would be comedy, action and drama. No crime-drama, war-flick, horror, porn-flicks or anime in case of Giver's world. All the Marvel Comics in stock are the 1950-1960s cloned versions where everything is pro-superhero. Bad guy always looses. None of the cars would have chrome and all the pickups would be generic w/o luxury. A world-wide plague would be very unlikely.

The Giver - Family

Jonas family seems somewhat like Rick Deckard's world as a Blade Runner (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/) and a version of socialism dating sometime in the last 40 years, because of regular sight of supersonic jets (people are afraid of advancements in jets...less perfect then tried and true turboprop cargo planes .

His dad and mom are nurturers, and Jonas is going to be selected by the Receiver at 12. His sister, Lily, is turning 8 and looses her stuffed elephant. Jona's father speaks to his son of having fun after 12. His family is perfect so Jonas can be selected by the Receiver . Andrei, Jona's friend, talks a lot and confuses his words and is the same age as Jona, but isn't perfect and won't be selected by the "Receiver " (man on the cover). This will lead to Jona screwing up later in the book, because he isn't suppose to see Andrei after 12.
Did anyone know that the movie is coming out this year?
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A family can be anything ranging from both parents to single parent and can include faster parents so that love and the ability to help with their son's payments are ethical. My family works and watches movies or Fox News. My mom likes to talk on the phone with her few friends and is short tempered.

I have dna from a Scottish and German family whose parents lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota since birth. My dad's parents moved here from Germany and my Mom's parents were always Scottish dna-wise.

Families are made up of biological parents no matter and sometimes families of adopted kids. That's not any less of a family My cousin Joshua was adopted by my Uncle's daughter, but he wanted to live with his biological dad recently so I don't see him anymore. I didn't see him enough to really like him though.

The Giver: Main issues

Main issues of "The Giver" is that no one was able to think, feel, grow, and develop as an individual. The community was so controlled that everyone was assigned a job, and a mission in life. Socialization was only done in a positive manner. Schooling was narrowly defined. The selective process, of who lives and who dies, was evil, yet unknowingly to the community. The selective process pertained to the newborns and the elderly. The whole community pretty much acted like programmed videogame characters. The community knew little beyond its borders. Living was simplified and disconnected from the world like the Amish.

The Giver: Euthanasia

There are reasons why society don't make doctors countdown to death of their patients. It's unmoral, and it's like putting a gun to your head and counting down to zero. In fact the author purposely put that in there, because she knows this is how the death sentence is carried out for murderers (aka the lethal injection death sentence)! The elderly in the book aren't murderers (except for Jona's father who kills babies) so they shouldn't die this way.

The Giver: Tradegies

It gives me chills when I think of brain death, because it's a human reaction. After death happens my conscious/subconscious is obviously in a infinite state of nothingness. It comes without warning and you're dead before you know something happened, because death is something completely at random. Pain is worst then death, yet counting down to death is worst then pain, but war is the exception. You don't die for your country; you let the other son of a gun die for his country. I prefer the natural random way myself [as a civilian].

As far as tradegies go, I have a many post-Apocalyptic videogames which pretend to be after nuclear fallout or demon fallout. I haven't experience a significant tragedy in reality, but have many examples in videogames. The movies are less important, but I've seen most of the the major end-of-the-earth ones.

Pre-Apocalyptic videogames I own :

1.Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
2.Final Fantasy VII for Playstation
3.Half-life for PC
4.Shoot em ups like Ikauga for Gamecube, Gradius V, Silpheed The Lost Planet for PS2
5.Odin Sphere for PS2
6.Phantasy Star 2 for Sega Genesis
7.Phantasy Star 3 for Sega Genesis
8.Phantasy Star 4 for Sega Genesis
9.Xenosaga Episode 1 for Ps2
10.Xenosaga Episode 2 for Ps2
11.Xenosaga Episode 3 for Ps2

Apocalyptic videogames I own :

1.Battlefield 2142 for PC
2.Command & Conquer 3 for PC
3.Dead Rising
4.Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction for PC
5.Diablo for PC
6.Diseagea 2 for PS2
7.Diseagea Hour of Darkness for PS2
8.Gears of War for Xbox 360
9.Half-life 2 for PC
10.Phantom Dust for PS2
11.Resident Evil 0 for Gamecube
12.Resident Evil for Gamecube
13.Resident Evil 2 for Dreamcast
14.Resident Evil 3 for Dreamcast
15.Resident Evil 4 for Gamecube
16.Resident Evil Code Veronica for Dreamcast
17.Shin Megami Tensei – Digital Devil Saga 2 for Playstation 2
18.Shin Megami Tensei – Digital Devil Saga for Playstation 2
19.Shin Megami Tensei – Nocturine for Playstation 2
20.Warcraft 3 for PC
21.World of Warcraft for PC
22.Xenogears for Playstation
23. Stella Deus for PS2

Pre-Apocalyptic movies I've seen :

Dr. Strangelove
Armageddon

Post-Apocalyptic movies I've seen :

28 Days Later
A Boy and his Dog
Children of Men
Final Fantasy the Spirits Within
Independence Day
Mad Max
On the Beach
War of the Worlds