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Conflicts In The Giver

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“I suppose the genetic scientist are still hard at work trying to work out the kinks out. Hair like Fiona’s must drive them crazy.” (Lowrey 95). Reading The Giver has made me notice that the story’s conflicts are similar than the conflicts in our own world. One of The Giver’s many conflicts is the community making children the same as everyone else by messing with their genetics. Today I realize that the different countries have been using these horrible techniques on our children. Many people think that this technology is not available to us yet, but that is not true. Actually the U.K. opens up to these new techniques of designer babies in their country and actually funds for it. Many other countries disagree with these techniques but some

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