No where in The Giverdoes someone read or have access to the constitution, nor do they mention a preamble. It is possible that your instructor is asking you to write one of your own based on what you know of the book, much like in our U.S. Constitution we have a preamble. Writing a preamble for the imaginary constitution of this book is a relatively common school assignment. Based on your question, I cannot...
No where in The Giver does someone read or have access to the constitution, nor do they mention a preamble. It is possible that your instructor is asking you to write one of your own based on what you know of the book, much like in our U.S. Constitution we have a preamble. Writing a preamble for the imaginary constitution of this book is a relatively common school assignment. Based on your question, I cannot know if this is what you are being asked to do, but I suspect that it is.
If this is the case, it would be helpful for you to first review the preamble to our constitution, which reads as such and should be fairly familiar:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Keep in mind a preamble is a statement that indicates what the overall message of the full text is going to be. It captures the essence of the message, so to speak.
For The Giver you are looking at a society very different that our own, where individual freedom is not valued. However, the wording of our preamble and the wording of the preamble for The Giver's society might not look much different, as both are seeking to create a more perfect union. As they say, the Devil is in the details, meaning that each of these overall goals could be reached in many different ways.
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