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- It is against the pilots to fly over the community

- Only two children per family are allowed (pp. 8, 111)

- People are "released" after three mistakes

- There can be only two children per family unit (p. 8)

- Nines get a bicycle and can remove their hair ribbons (p. 13)

- Twelves receive their "Assignment"

- Eights must give up their "comfort object"(p. 18)

- Ones receive a name and are given to a family

- Birthmothers work as such only for three years and are then Laborers

- Eights are given freedom of choice (pp. 26, 97)

- Don't brag (p. 27)

- Don't look at another's nakedness (p. 30)

- Dream-telling begins with Threes

- Stirrings must be reported in order for treatment to take place

- Eights start their volunteer hours (p. 40)

- Sevens get their front-buttoned jacket

- Fours, Fives, and Sixes have back-buttoned jackets

- Eights get jackets with smaller buttons and pockets

- Ten females loose their braids and Ten males get shorter haircuts

- Eleven females get new undergarments and Eleven males get long trousers

- Books are forbidden to citizens

- Citizens can't leave their dwellings at night

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Some rules from the book "The Giver" include a strict prohibition against lying, no discussion of the past, and adherence to assigned roles within the community. Residents must also conform to a set of rules that dictate behavior and limit personal choices.

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The Giver is an American children's novel by Lois Lowry written in 1993. The rules of the community are no lying, must use precise language, must share feelings at dinner, must share dreams at breakfast, must take pills for stirrings, must finish volunteer hours, each couple can only have two kids (boy and girl), no fighting, adults and children cannot look at each other nude, respect elders, be respectful, cannot ride bike before age nine, girls must wear ribbon in hair until age nine, must receive life assignment at Ceremony of Twelve and you must apologize for bad things.

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12y ago

dont lie

dont bring food out of recreation area

MUST have a dull life

to get realeased the nurturers inject someone with poison they die and then are basically thrown away

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13y ago

The eight rules Jonas is given in The Giver are...

1. Go immediatly to the annex where The Giver lives after school. br />

2. Go immediatly home after training

3. He is exempt from the rules regarding rudeness

4. Don't riches your training with anyone

5. Prohibited from dream telling

6. No medicine for anything related to training.

7. Not permitted to apply for release

8. He may lie

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14y ago

4 rules are one male and one female per family, there cant be a third transgession, nobody can look at the list of name calling, and at the age of 8 you must do volunter hours.

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14y ago

Do not draw attention to difference, accurate words, no sexual advances, do not take food, only 4 members in each family, to name a few.

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12y ago

Releade people that dont belong or meet requirements, tell feelings at dinner, tell your dreams during breakfast, cant lie but The Reciever can,stirrings must always be reported

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13y ago

1. Accurate words

2. no sexual advances (hitting on others)

3. only 4 people per family

4. Don't draw attention to differences

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