Julie Stauffer

<<They both found it disturbing in a very subtle way>>

Could you elaborate? My kids have enjoyed the premise of "integration", if
you will, of pain and sorrow into the beauty of the world and how one can
truly choose, not so much what happens to them in life, but how they respond
to it.

Julie

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WARNING WARNING WARNING _ If you are planning to read the Giver and
you don't want the end spoiled DO NOT READ ANY FARTHER:

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Julie Stauffer" <jnjstau@g...> wrote:
> <<They both found it disturbing in a very subtle way>>
>
> Could you elaborate? My kids have enjoyed the premise
of "integration", if
> you will, of pain and sorrow into the beauty of the world and how
one can
> truly choose, not so much what happens to them in life, but how
they respond
> to it.
>
> Julie

Let's see, where to begin . . .

1. They had a problem with the no seeing colors or hearing music
thing. Those things are such an important part of both of their
worlds they can't imagine living without.

2. No travel. No far off lands to imagine.

3. Someone else chooses your career and your life is regulated by
age.

4. The end meant different things to each of them, for one, the
kid, whose name I forget, doesn't find civilization. He is
hallucinating and he dies at the bottom of the hill. For the other,
even though he found others, it may or may not have been better and
the people he left behind were left to cope with a situation they had
no way to understand because of generations of total control.

5. On a deeper level, they were thinking about how a society like
that could develope . . . how people could give up so much in the
name of being safe. Of course it's even scarier to think about now.

Bridget