The Giver is an interesting and strange book. The community kind of creeps me out. It is someplace where no one can let their true colors shine through, and everyone is the same. The community would become a stagnant place to live. No one would have original thought. It makes me wonder how people came up with the abstinence pill because it would have had to be an original thought. While this place can be written about in a book, I wonder if it could truly exist. The nature of human beings create a more inquisitive and wanting environment. People would question what they were being taught. Pills could not really squelch all natural human drives. While the concept is very interesting, I do not think it could actually be carried out.