Release

From the previous chapters release didn't seem like such an awful thing. You had a ceremony to celebrate it if you were an Old but not a newborn. I as other readers can feel that the ceremony for release for the old is like the ceremony of Twelve. Like it can be seen in page 56, "'thank you for your childhood."In the ceremony of Twelve they are thanking for their childhood unlike for the ceremony of the Old for release they are thanking them for the service they had made to the community. On the other hand they don't do anything for the newborns since they haven't given anything to the community yet. Now release means another thing which is killing you with a injection and then throwing your decomposed body to the garbage. Release can be cruel and harsh no matter if they give you a ceremony or not. Positively, release is a very serious thing which citizens should handle carefully in the community.

Melissa Atlixqueno