The Giver

Note: "OMG. Technically they've seen animals or at least know what it looks like, they just don't know that it's one" Page: 18 This note made me wonder what else this community is hiding from the people who lives in it.On page 5:
"Why do you think the visitors didn't obey the rules?" Mother asked.
Lily considered, and shook her head. "I don't know. They acted like... like..."
"Animals?" Jonas suggested. He laughed.
"That's right," Lily said, laughing too. "Like animals." Neither child knew what the word meant, exactly, but it was often used to describe someone uneducated or clumsy, somewho didnt't fit in.

First of all, this is an insult to animals, not all of them are like that. Second, humans are animals too, but sadly they don't know that, they don't know anything that really goes on in the "real world". Anyway, it's just really weird how their "comfort objects" are stuffed animals, yet they insult them. Lily's is a stuffed elephant, and Jonas' was a bear. It's kind of ironic that they insult animals, but can't live without a stuffed ANIMAL. In this comunity, the comfort objects are stuffed imaginary creatures to them. I get that in a way this is an imaginary creature, at least for them because technically they've never seen an animal, but if they're going to hide what's really going on in the outside world, they shouldn't even mention the word.

I don't have much to say about this, but I have lots of thoughts about it. I just can't quite explain everything. If only I knew everything this community is hiding.
Anyway another thing I'm wondering about, that doesn't really relate to this is that, do they use money? how can they "take" the color out of this community? Because in another community, they have color, and there are certain things you can't take away physically from the world no matter how different the 2 places can be. So is there a barrier? a force field? a dome?