Stephanie
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Lois Lowry:
Race is briefly addressed as "sameness" in The Giver. I wonder how this sameness was achieved. I think the entire race was Caucasian, since Jonas makes a reference to red hair and light eyes. What happened to allow this to occur? Eugenics? Genocide?
Lois Lowry
I read somewhere that if all dogs in the world interbred over the course of centuries. he we would have only one kind of dog: medium sized, brown.
Maye the people of Jonas's world are all beige.
Maye the people of Jonas's world are all beige.
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Lee
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Lois Lowry:
I noticed that from The Giver to Son, all the characters have no last names. This makes me think about women changing their last names after married and the children are given their paternal family names. I think it's an old-fashioned sexist attitude.The absense make me wonder if that can eliminate the beliefs that women being properties of men. Is that your idea?
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