This community is not your typical everyday community. Here people don't have to worry about poverty, crime, starvation and typical world problems. However, this community still has many problems. People still think it's a wonderful place to live, but this community is a dystopia. In Ms. Lowry's book "The Giver" she explains how families operate here as well as both negative and positive views of the family. The main character is Jonas. He is very special and different because he can see beyond. Jonas notices that his family is not emotionally attached to him. The families are not linked and the children are entrusted to the parents. When children are assigned to family units, they are called by their number, not their name. In this passage, they represent children. (50) “They were sorted by original numbers, the numbers assigned to them at birth. » So, in this community, instead of calling a child only by his name, he can also be identified by a number. Here, children can't even have individuality because they are just a number. Another reason Jonas may notice ...