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Briana Castaneda
English 113B
Professor Spitler-Lawson
April 28, 2016
Project Text Final Draft
Word count: 1066
Family Differences
Many families are not all the same due to the way they were brought up. They have many
differences and ways of interacting with one another. Family is very important because family
members are the ones who uplift you and motivate you to do better, but not all of them are the
same. In some cases a family is brought up with only one parent or some families aren't even
biologically related. In family you tend to feel what love really is and you enjoy the company of
one another. In the book, The Giver by Louise Lowry, the families in the community are
controlled by others, the mother and father are selected by the committee and are chosen who
they will marry and what children they will receive. In each family they are assigned to have
only one son and one daughter, but none can be related. Although in the real world families are
nothing like in The Giver, you are not chosen who you will marry nor what children you may
have.
In The Giver family is considered the opposite of what the real world portrays such as no
one is allowed to have any emotions or feelings, which in reality everyone tends to have
emotions and feelings such as love, happiness, sadness, and pain. To feel any emotion in the
community of The Giver it is considered wrong and no one should know it is possible. The
author mentions, I like the feeling of love, [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the

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speaker on the wall reassuring himself no one was listening. The author explains how in their
society no one is allowed to feel any emotion and if the community finds out someone has
feelings towards another person, it is wrong. In the real world anyone and everyone is allowed to
have feelings. Families are created without a choice, they are not assigned to a family. In The
Giver there is a rule where families are assigned the rule is Two children-one male, one femaleto each family unit, (Lowry 8). The parents are assigned to each other as well as the children are
assigned to parents who are not birth parents. These types of families are not seen in the real
world.
In the real world not all families are biological, many cases some families have children
who are considered their adoptive children. Adoption is when two parents agree to give away
their child to a family that will take care of and raise a child that is not their own. Adopting a
child is nothing like being assigned to a child because in adoption you have the choice to choose
what kind of child you will want to raise such as age, ethnicity, or gender. Millions of children
around the world have been adopted according to Alan Greenblatt in his article International
Adoption, In 2010, only 30,000 of the world's nearly 18 million orphans were adopted by
parents from other countries. Not all children are from the same country from the adopted
parents. The difference between the real world and The Giver is that it is okay to choose who to
be your child when it comes to adoption rather than in that society you are given what is chosen
for you.
Not all families stay together after they are legally married some families begin to break
apart when the spouses decide to no longer continue their marriage. After you are legally married
and decide to leave your partner it is called divorce. Divorce means the legal dissolution of a
marriage by a court, if a family with children decides to get a divorce it goes through a court

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process. During the court process the judge decides whether or not the parents equally share
custody of the children or one gets more custody than the other. Many families suffer when it
comes to a divorce because it begins to feel broken Annotated Bibliography
Greenblatt, Alan. "International Adoption." CQ Global Researcher 6 Dec. 2011: 573-96. Web. 2
May 2016.
This article discusses the process of a family who decides to adopt a child who is not
their biological child. I found this source using the CQ Researcher on the CSUN Oviatt
Library page, I searched for Adoption. Its a peer reviewed article on the CSUN Oviatt
Library page which is a trustworthy site. This article will be helpful to my essay because it
explains how some families are created without being biological families and having a choice to
chose who they would like their children to be rather than being assigned to a child.

Masci, David. "Children and Divorce." CQ Researcher 19 Jan. 2001: 25-40. Web. 2 May 2016.
This article discusses how a divorce can affect a family. I found this article using the
CQ Researcher on the CSUN Oviatt Library page, I searched for Divorce Rate. Its was
found on the CSUN Oviatt Library page which is a trustworthy site. This article will be helpful to
my essay because it explains how a divorce can affect a family in many ways different from The
Giver.

"Arranged/Forced Marriages." Statistic Brain. 2016 Statistic Brain Research Institute, 2016.
Web. 2 May 2016.
This page discusses the statistics of an arranged marriage. I found this article using
Bing on my internet browser i searched for Arranged Marriage Statistics. It was found on

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Bing a search engine which is a trustworthy site. This page will be helpful to my essay because it
will show a number of arranged marriages different from The Giver.
Foerstel, Karen. "Women's Rights." CQ Global Researcher 1 May 2008: 115-47. Web. 2 May
2016.
This article discusses women's rights and how women alone provide for their family. I
found this article using the CQ Researcher through the CSUN Oviatt Library page. I
searched Womens Rights. It was found on the CSUN Oviatt Library page which is a
trustworthy site. This article will be useful to my essay because it explains how woman alone can
support a family rather than from The Giver they are given a spouse to maintain the family
together.