maria ramirez

Do you consider yourself being a functional family or dysfunctional family?Can you define the difference?Do all functional families believe in the same traits?Whats the difference between functional and dysfunctional families that functional families don't have or want to have.
This relates good to the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowery.Jonas was the main character and the outcast of the family.His parents had dark colored eyes as well has his sister but Jonas had light colored eyes gray.He thought differently than his family and the community has well because they all believed in the same rules same everything.GE had more than an open mind then all the the others.
To them they thought that functional families never had pain they were always happy,well educated.they were also categorized by age,gender,not race because they were all Caucasian.They considered dysfunctional families let me use an example birth mothers.They were considered as a joke it was a job but filthy one at that as well as the fathers regular families weren't allowed to have there own babies because they were in their own little world with their jobs.
Functional families were assigend babies they had to go to all types of procecduers.Thats why i think that they were dysfunctional families because they thought to them they weren't allowed because they would look bad to their community.It was as though they were taking a baby away from their rightful parents they were never gonna know that the parents there with aren't their real parents but loonies.
As time passes by Jonas becomes more aware of how the community is trying to hide bad memories so that only the community could only relay on good memories and don't have to worry about the past and the troubled life's they once had.As Jonas turned twelve he was assigend to be the giver were a person would pass him on the bad memories and keep them alive but only for himself which was something that Jonas didn't like doing because he thought that it wasn't fair for him to keep alive all those memories and look at the community as everything is peachy nice.
One reason why i like that what Jonas did to the community was that he left the city knowing that the people would have to face those memories that they wouldn't know what to do with them and that's why Jonas was assigned for that because if someone dreamt about something he could go to Jonas and he would tell them that everything was alright to take a pill and everything would get back to normal.That's why i like Jonas he had a new brother thought is was his real brother and took him with him on his long journey to a new place were they wouldn't be no more fake communities.
Another reason why i think Jonas did what he did because he saw his father kill a new born because he weighed less that his other twin baby because there couldn't be two alike that's how messed up the community was.That's why it was good for Jonas do what he did if i were in his shoes i would have done the same.