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Throughout reading The Giver by Lois Lowry there has been contrasts and Contradictions between their society and ours. A big one is the fact that they release people. In chapter one, Jonas was remembering the time with the plane, "...a Pilot-in-Training had misread his navigational instructions and made a wrong turn...NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED" (pg.2). This is a big contrast and contradiction because we don't release people, but they do. They release people when they either make one big mistake or 3 small ones, while we don't because it's wrong to just release people for a mistake that they make. Why can't they just learn that releasing people is wrong.

Also throughout the book, they keep mentioning release over and over again. When they are talking about their feelings for the day Jonas thinks about the fact that, "...a boy in his group of elevens whose father had been released years before" (pg.9). Currently while the book I wonder why they keep mentioning release, because it must be really important if they have mentiond it so many times. This could end up being an extremely important part of the story, because if people get released then nobody is safe. Since they can release anybody.