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In The Giver, Louis Lowry takes all the memories and freedoms and strips them away from the society. She does this because the doesn't want the people to have to deal with all of the negative aspects of the world, so she takes that away to make the society more safe and ruling.

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Memory is one of the key parts int he novel, as it allows them to remember all the pain and all the other emotions from the past. They experience many different things with these memories and share them with others. The lack of memory affects them because they are oblivious to all of these emotions, which in turn make the society safe.

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Each individual person has their own job or task that they have to complete. Some people have their own special skills that they are good at, and it is their job to use them to be able to contribute to the community.

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Some aspects is that we have laws that we have to follow, and if you don't follow them then you have to suffer the consequences. Another aspect is that we get to choose our own jobs.

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Some consequences is that some people can make bad choices which can affect everyone and the whole society. If you make good personal choices, people wont look down upon you. But if you are known to make bad decisions then you are not going to be seen as a good person.

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The memory allows them to remember the past and learn from their mistakes. When they do not have the memory of the past they cannot do that.

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We have some aspects like our freedoms. We also have aspects like death which resemble a utopia.

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Some consequences is people can make bad choices. These bad choices can then affect other people making the society not peaceful.

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Jonas was assigned the Receiver of memory and his job is to have all the memories of all the people. So Jonas and the giver are the only ones that have feelings and emotions.

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Every adult has a responsibility in the community, there are jobs in the society that uses each person’s skills to serve the community. Example: Jonas is assigned the Receiver of Memory.  He holds everyone’s memories which come along with grief and pain.

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Some aspects that we have are having to follow laws. Our society also allows people to choose their own jobs.

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People in a society with freedom of choice could make many mistakes and do bad things. Some of which may include crimes.

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Some of the consequences for a society when people have choices is that some people can make bad choices which can effect the community as a whole. The society is impacted by personal choices because if someone decides to do something bad then the whole community could be blamed for the incident. This is how personal choices can impact a society.

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The aspects of utopias and dystopias that we have that are a reflection to the things that we saw in the giver is that people don't have to share the same houses with different people.

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The memory role is a very important role in the novel because they receive the memories from the past and also hey share the pain and the other emotions from the past. The lack of memory effects the society in a good way because they don't have to remember all of the terrible things that happened and they don't have to learn to hold grudges.

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Lois Lowry feels that limiting freedom actually helps people. It's makes their life easier and less stress and they have no worries.

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If we don't have any memory of a life that was different than it is right now, we just guess that life has always been this way.

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Each of us has special talents. We can take that special talent, such as art or music or sports and volunteer it to the community.

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Examples of utopias are that we don't live in a country with war around us like other countries. Right now, we live in a dystopia where we have to live under temporary laws to keep us from being sick and staying healthy.

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When people have choices, this gives them the option to make good decisions or bad decision, right decision or wrong decisions, they have to take responsibility for their choices.

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Lois Lowry made the community in the book with no memories, emotions, or colors. She did this so that the community wouldn't have to go through what they had to.

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The role of memory helps Jonas see what others can't whether that would be something good that happened or something bad that happened. The society can't reflect on the good or bad things that happened in the past because they don't know what happened.

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Every single person in the community tributes to the community in some way. Example of contributing would be jobs that help the community.

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Aspects of utopias and dystopias that we have in our society are we have laws that keep people in line and if they don't follow those laws they are punished in some way. We have dystopias in our country such as abortion.

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Depending on the choices the people in that society make can determine the mood and tone of the society. Personal choices can be good and bad for a society. If you in the society and you do something that people don't agree with they most likely will become upset, but if you make a choice that the people in the society like then they won't have a problem with you.

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She feels that it is limited right now and it needs to be bigger

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The role of memory is huge because it helps Jonas see that the community is not all good

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Everyone can have a job that best suits them.

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Some parts that are Utopian are that we are free and a part that is dystopian is that what is going on in the world right now.

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so,e consequences are people could make the wrong choices

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Lois Lowery wrote about a community where everyone thought that they didn't want people to have feelings or emotions so they took it all away. They did this because they didn't want people to go through what they had to go though.

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Memory has a big part in the novel. Jonas was assigned the Receiver of memory and his job is to have all the memories of all the people. So Jonas and the giver are the only ones that have feelings and emotions.

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In the community every adult as a responsibility. They all have different jobs based what is best for them and the community.

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In our society we have aspects of dystopia and utopia. One of them is that our country has laws to keep the people in line.

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Some consequences are that people could make bad choices and even if it was for the right reason people might not agree with it. person choices could impact a society because they would have their own opinion on what a utopia is to them and others might not agree with them.

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Memory is one of the big parts of the community.  Jonas was assigned to be the Receiver of memory and his job is to hold all of the memories of other people. He holds the both good and bad memories of each person. No one besides Jonas and the Giver has emotions or feelings

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every adult has a responsibility in the community, there are jobs in the society that uses each person’s skills to serve the community. Example: Jonas is assigned the Receiver of Memory.  He holds everyone’s memories which come along with grief and pain.

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in our society, there are characteristics of a dystopia and a utopia. one thing we have in our society that Jonas’ Communith doesn’t is freedom.

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some consequences for letting people choose for themselves are that it might hurt; themselves, others, or the community.

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The society we have has aspects of a utopia such as laws that make the land peaceful and under control but the actions and feeling of other cause those laws to be broken sometimes that then

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Lack of memory in the society keeps the society safe from pain of the past and memories are held by one person. Memories are expressed and felt while being passed on to another and Jonas was chosen. The lack of memories in the story shows how nobody in the community has any knowledge of what snow, colors, or anything really is except whats in the community.

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Lack of memory in the society keeps the society safe from pain of the past and memories are held by one person. Memories are expressed and felt while being passed on to another and Jonas was chosen. The lack of memories in the story shows how nobody in the community has any knowledge of what snow, colors, or anything really is except whats in the community.

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Consequences are that people could make bad choices and even if it is right people might not agree on it. Many if not all societies can be impacted by personal choices because just think if a government official had their own choices with no body else to run it through, it would be their utopia but everybody would dislike it becasue its his.

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They feel that everyone has equal freedom, choices but it all depends on your job that you were assigned. And in the novel the giver and the elders limit almost every aspect of their community to wear everything has rules that may always be followed and if they're not followed then there will be consequences supposively  he or she will be released at once. they had all of these rules in their community so that they could make their community as perfect as possible a utopia but in the long run it ended up turning into a dystopia.

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memorys are a big deal i the society they are very important and the elders think that without them the whole society will become a failure and turn into a dystopia which would be devistating. memorys give jonas the wisdom that the society needs to be successful and not to crumble into a dystopia, the lack of memory means that he can’t answer or give as much advice to the elders as they would need to not turn and crumble into a dystopia.

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the society balances individualism with responsibility to the community all because the society enforces rules that everyone must abide by their whole lives  or else they will be released even the house of the old has ruled that the old people must follow.

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we all have to abide by the same rules, we have murders and suicides

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they could choose the wrong path and be useless, so there is less people to rely on, so we don’t have as many smart and skilled people.

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The society is formed to where they have no freedoms or rights. Lois Lowry wrote about the community where people thought it was better for the people to spare them of feelings and memories of the past. they didn't want the same things to happen so they took away their freedoms

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Jonas was assigned as a Receiver of Memory and his job is to hold all of the memories of other people. He holds the both good and bad memories of each person. No one besides Jonas and the Giver have true emotions and feelings.

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With responsibility to the community, there are roles in society that use the person’s skills to serve the community. Jonas was assigned the receiver of memory. Jonas holds all the memories even the good or bad.

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Some dystopias we have are abortion because in the giver they would kill the lighter twin of the two. Some utopias are like the freedoms we have in America like freedom of speech, religion, etc

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The consequences of people having choices is that we can do very bad things for society, for example crime. Crime can affect a society very badly or even a person very badly. For example, a bank gets robbed, that money was taking and you might not ever get to see it again and the person worked very hard for that money.

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Consequences for a society when people have choices are that it causes for the people in power to have less control of their citizens. It can also cause conflicts society wide. Examples can include riots, caused by disagreement over certain topics. Society is impacted by personal choices, due to the fact that personal choices can set apart people in a society. Examples include Apartheid in South Africa and Segregation here in the United States. This can be supported with this quote, "

She stares at me in amazement that I have said such a hideous thing. (5)

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The role memory plays in this novel is that, it is that all memories are held by one individual, the Receiver of Memory. Thus, memory is sort of a privilege/honor one could have. And with those memories, that person is able to witness terrible things that have happened in the past and then also feel those things. But they are also able to see good things that have happened, or good feelings that one may feel. And through those memories that person literally sees the world differently. Starting with seeing color, then even going on to see the society as it really is. Seeing that the society is keeping memories from the people, only to limit their choices, freedom, and desire. The society does this because it believes that it is keeping the people safe. Lack of memory affects society, due to the fact that it fully takes away the citizen’s ability to make their own decisions, decide what they love and do not like, and even how they live their lives. Lack of memory also allows the people of the community to easily be manipulated and brainwashed. The quote that supports this fact is, "

"Listen to me, Jonas. They can't help it. They know nothing." (Lowry, 153)

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Lois Lowry, in her speech and in the Novel feels about the topic is that she believes that societal structure has the power to promote or limit freedom, choice, and desire. This can be seen when in her Newbery speech, she speaks about how as an 11 year old, she grew up in a small American village within Tokyo. She then goes on to say that she would go out of her small American area in Tokyo, without the consent of her parents. In the Giver we can see this through how the society Jonas lives in, purposely sets all these strict rules to prevent anybody from defecting. That by itself limits freedom, choice, and desire. This can be proven with the following quote, "“Then, after a moment, I realize my mistake. She has said, actually, “Kirei-des’.” She has called me pretty. And I look for her, in the crowd, at least to smile, perhaps to say thank you if I can overcome my shyness enough to speak. But she is gone.” (Lowry, 3)

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In the book the book The Giver, society is built to give no freedoms to anyone. Lois Lowry thought it would be a better idea to take away the people's memories so they could be spared the terror of some of the horrific things that have happened. The society in this book, didn't want the same things to happen like they did in the past, so they took away their choices and freedoms to create the "perfect world"

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Memory plays a great role in this novel. Nobody in this community has any recollection of their past or their history. Jonas and The Giver are the only people in the community allowed to remember anything. Through the second half of the book, Jonas is given memories from the Giver that are from the past. If the memories that Jonas has received were to be released to the community, there would be mass chaos and everybody would be afraid.Since nobody else has any memory of anything, they all follow the rules of their community and don't really know what is going on.

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Each person is an individual and are different in their own way, society cannot change that. All people should be given certain freedoms so that they have a responsibility to do the right thing. Although they now have these freedoms, they should still have basic rules to keep people from doing things they really shouldn't.

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In our society, there are both Utopian and Dystopian characteristics. Some of the Utopian characteristics/aspects include the choices the government lets the people of the community make, including their spouse, how many kids they have, their jobs, etc...Some of the Dystopian aspects include sickness,suffering, pain, sadness, etc...In the book The Giver, the government wanted to create a perfect world, so they gave no choices to the people and they took away their memories so that they could be in full control. At times, this seemed like a utopian society, but in reality, it was more of a dystopian.

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When the people in society have a large variety of choices, these choices can sometimes ruin things in society. When people have a lot o choices, they can easily make a bad one without really thinking about it. These are personal choices/opinions that this person may think is the right choice, but may really be the wrong choice for their society.

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The role memory plays in this novel changes the way they live their life. In this novel the people in Jonas’s community don't have memories because they don't want people to go through pain. The lack of memory affects the society because people could fix something next time that they did wrong and learn from the mistake and get to have their own opinions on things which would completely change the way they are trying to make their community a perfect place. But just them remembering something bad that happened, they don't want them to go through pain remembering it.

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The utopias we have in our world today are laws that the government and powerful people choose so that we stay safe and cant do stupid things and get away with it. The dystopias we have is getting to choose many of our personal life decisions like spouse, number of kids, jobs and many more. What's similar about our utopias and Jonas’s community is that they both want them to not see the bad. Like in Jonas’s community they don't see color and don't have memories because they don't want them to go through pain. In our world we don't want people to get hurt and many other reasons so we have laws.

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The consequences for a society when people have choices is bad things could happen like arguments about something. And also murder, shootings, and more bad things happen. I think personal choices impact a society because once something happens they change it so it won't happen again making it more and more strict because of the choices people make. When Jonas decided to leave the community all the memories were given to the community which they didn't want them to have so now they have memories of things either good or bad and the bad ones could cause them pain.

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For utopia, we have our amendments, the most highlighted is the 1st amendment with freedom of speech. We are aloud to have a job of our choice and a spouse of our choice. For dystopias, we still have crimes around the world.

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The consequences of people having choices is that we can do very bad things for society, for example crime. People make the choice of committing a crime that can affect a community significantly. Society can be either positively or negatively impacted by personal choices.

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memory plays a big part in the novel. The main character, Jonas is selected as the “receiver” He has to endure all the memories from “The Giver” so that the society does not have to feel that pain from the memories. To me, memory plays a huge role in the story, that’s what makes it a utopia.

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She thinks that freedom and choice are unsafe things. She didn’t like it because there were limits on pretty much everything and nobody in the community had a say to do anything. It was supposed to be a utopia, but it was starting to look like a dystopia, but nobody in the community really ever realized it because they didn’t know anything other than what they have been taught from the rules. They have to share their feelings and dreams to their family, and they can’t really keep anything personal to themselves.

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The lack of memory affects the society because they are living by strict rules and they don’t know anything about memories, hence, they feel no emotions. They only know what they have been taught living in this community.

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When people have choices, they start to become more careless and that’s when things like competition break out. People want to be better than others, which isn’t always a bad thing though. The consequences include things like inequality, but if we had a world where everyone was the same, everything would be boring. Personal choices impact a society in a good way in my opinion, because everyone needs to be able to have their own choices and not have to follow the crowd. It can be harmful though, depending on how far people take it.

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Society can balance individualism and responsibility in a community by giving people freedoms and letting them make their own choices. The more freedom that people in a community have the more responsibility that they have.   You can balance them by giving people basic freedoms but still having serval rules that keep people in line.

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People have individualism because they get to make their own decisions in what they want to do like their jobs, or maybe what they eat or sports they play. In the Giver they get to make some of their decisions like were they spend their volunteer hours. They have responsibilities like their jobs that they get at age 12.

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Some consequences are that some people make the wrong choices and bully others or choose to rob or steal something, some others are that people may help others and get along well and be kind citizens. Some personal choices impact society like driving drunk you might cause a wreck and kill someone even if you don’t mean to.

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Memories play a big part in this novel. If Jonas or a receiver goes away all of their memories are released or given to everyone else and they will have all of the pain from the memories. The lack of memories affects the society because people don’t know if what they are doing is good or bad because it is normal to them , it is what they grew up doing or knowing.

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Some of the consequences are that people can make the wrong choices that could very easily negatively impact the society. Society is impacted by personal choices because when people make a choice that is personal their judgement can often be clouded and they may make the wrong choice.

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In the story, memory provides wisdom and leads Jonas to make the first real decision of his life to leave behind everything that he knows. The lack of memory affects society because the people don't remember pain, hunger, and thirst. They sacrifice their individualism to lead simple and happy lives.

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We have aspects of a utopia such in our freedoms of speech, religion, the press, etc. But we have aspects of a dystopia in the fact that we have crime and poverty.

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The consequences are that some people could make bad choices that harm others. In the Giver, Jonas makes the first real choice of his life to leave the community and take Gabe with him.

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People could do pretty bad things when given free choices.

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An aspect of utopias that we have is the fact we can make our own choices. But we still have violence like dystopias.

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Memories are very important because the giver and Jonas are the only people who have them all the other people have had their memories taken away from them in fear that they might hurt them.

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The memories are important because Jonas and the giver are the only ones with them if you don't count the little peaceful memories given to Gabriel every night. The citizens are stripped form all memories and they can't even see colors. If the memories are released to the public, it could go very horrible.

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They took away their rights,choices, and freedoms. Lowis Loury explains she wanted them to go without those painful memories that freedom or rights would cause. Without those things the community has to be controlled by other people who think they know the person best.

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Only Jonas and the Giver have memories of the real world and real affects. The people in the community are protected from the memories of hurt or pain because that how the utopia wanted them to go throughout their lives without that pain or suffering.

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If the society controls the people everyone would be honest to the community and treat it with respect and have responsibility for the things they are told to do.

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People can get a job that they want and want to do. People can also choose their spouses and children number. You can have any number of a boy or girl and your kids can grow up to be what you want them to be or what they want themselves to be.

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Some people do bad things for the right reason, but yet still effect others in a way. People choose what is good for them but unfortunately hurts others. Personal choices impact a society because the people in a society represent that society and if they do something bad the society will have a bad name.

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They all have to be true to themselves meaning that they cant lie to themselves or to anyone in the cummunity.

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Jonas has all of the memories that the cummunity does not have.

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We can make choices by ourselves and dont need people telling us what job to get or how many kids to have but we also  have to worry about getting sick or hurt.

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we can make our own choices and do things that we want. and we also have many distopian characteristics such as violence and sickness.

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people could do terrible things if they had choices and it wouldn't be controlled.

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memory plays a very big role because only the giver and the receiver have memories.

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Memory plays a big role because no one has memories except the Giver and the Receiver so it's hard to get a memory and when you do they can be good memories or bad memories.

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Some aspects of Utopias that we have are that everyone can make their own choices, we can choose our own jobs etc.

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The consequences for a society when people have choices is that they can do whatever they want instead of being controlled all the time and lots of bad things could happen. The society is impacted because more people can do a lot of things and it can change the socitey a lot.

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Memory plays a very large role in this novel. Jonas has been chosen to receive all of the Givers memories. He does this to take the burden off of the people in his community. In my opinion the peoples lack of memories is what makes this a utopia. Yes they live in a world without choices while also having safety but they don't know anything better or worse could be happening so they accept it.