One controversial topic that Lowry touches upon in The Giver is euthanasia, or the practice of ending someone's life to ease their suffering. Jonas's
community practices euthanasia on very old citizens as well as upon
unhealthy newchildren. Discuss the attitude toward euthanasia as expressed
in The Giver. Does the novel condemn, promote, or conditionally accept the
practice?

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up