I loved the Giver.

[conuly]

Well, I did when I read it first. Eventually, I saw some serious logical problems with it - for example, it's implied that only one person can take a certain job every year. If that's the case, there can only be one Birthmother every year - and there's no way, if each Birthmother has three children, that they can have 50 children yearly. But really, I digress.

If you're going to complain about a book, do so logically. It does no good to complain that a book promotes euthanasia when, in fact, the main character decides to leave the safety of the village in order to protect somebody from this fate. And it certainly makes no sense to call it especially anti-male when women are shown in no special positions of authority.

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[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

I think maybe it's that only one person from any given subgroup of children can take a certain job every year, and that there are several subgroups in a community -- also that the people from previous groups may still be around. But I dunno.

[conuly]

In that case, there's no way that each subgroup can have 50 children yearly.