The Giver: Explain how Jonas' community is hypocritical.

Jonas’ community is hypocritical because they lie about the most important things in their meaningless lives. First of all, when kids go to school they always teach them to say the truth, and not to lie. But in the rules of Jonas’s assignment, it said that he may lie. So how does he know that no one lies? People might say that they are not allowed to lie, but after all we don’t know if in their rules it says that they could lie. When people get released, which happens almost every day, is all a lie. The truth is that when someone is released, is actually killed. When the Old get released after their ceremony, when they walk through that door, they go to the ‘lab’ where they put them an injection that kills them, and then put them in a box that is placed in a small door in a wall. Nobody knows that except from the Giver, the Receiver, and the people who kill them. But when innocent babies get released is very unfair. Just because they are twins, or they don’t sleep soundly at night, doesn’t mean that they have to be killed. Now what they pretend that release is, is that everything is good and nice, and people should want to be released. Also people don’t know much about release, there is not enough information given to them. The only thing that they know is that everyone is happy about it, and that when the Ceremony of Release finishes, they walk out of one door and nobody knows what there is behind that door.