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    This essay discusses Jonas’s decisions and why people should support it. In Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, Jonas decides to leave the safety of the community to allow Gabriel to live, to allow the memories to return to the community, for Jonas to live a meaningful life and for the Giver to have a second chance at helping the community at a time of distress when Jonas’s memories return to the people. Jonas’s decision was the preferred one. How and why is releasing Jonas’s memories to the community…

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    In Lois Lowry’s engaging novel The Giver, we meet a young boy named Jonas who lives in a restricted community where everything is planned out perfectly, when Jonas turns twelve his world is turned upside down when he receives the job, the Receiver Of Memory. As entitled Jonas receives memories and this changes his life forever, he receives memories of joy and pain, this drastic change shows Jonas what him and the community had missed out on for so long. “ Life is meaningless without memories”…

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    The Giver Lois Lowry

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    The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry and follows the main character Jonas. In the community, everyone has a very specific role that they are assigned to at the Ceremony of Twelve. Most of the kids entering as a new adult member of the community get assigned to something typical, such as nurturer of new children or department of justice, which was the case for his best friend, Fiona and Asher, but Jonas gets assigned something unique that only one person gets assigned to every few years, as…

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    The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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    Would there be a positive result if there was a population of 1,200,000,000 people and a food supply of only half that number? Clearly, there would be a major problem. Unfortunately, this problematic situation may happen in the future. The Malthusian Theory of population, created by Thomas Malthus, is the theory that the population will outgrow its resources, leading to famine. Malthus stated that the populations increase in geometric progression and that food supplies increase in arithmetic…

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    Lois Lowry Research Paper

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    Lois Lowry Lois Lowry is known for writing about the importance of human connections. She started writing young adult literature after a Houghton Mifflin editor read one of her published stories (Franklin 280). Lowry is a successful author who regardless of her life struggles has accomplished multiple outstanding awards and achievements. Lois Lowry’s childhood made an outstanding impact on her future and influenced it. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937 (“Biography” 1). She is…

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    Harrison Bergeron

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    Lowry, Lois. The Giver.: Lois Lowry, 1993. Print The Giver by accomplished author Lois Lowry is a dystopian novel featuring a young man named Jonas. In this dystopian society every year 12s go to the ceremony where they receive jobs. This society had always seemed normal to Jonas until that day. He had been chosen to be the receiver, one who receives memories from the past in order to make decisions to better the society. Once his job was selected for him, he went to his job and received some…

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    Would life be better if people did not have memories? That was how life was in Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver. The main character, Jonas, was selected by his community’s elder committee to be the next Receiver of Memory. That job was the most honorable job in the whole community because he would be the person who could receive memories of the past. Thankfully, Jonas was not all alone in this important job. He was trained by the current Receiver, and Jonas called him ‘The Giver.’ Jonas was…

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    In The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is controlled by his community. This is a Dystopia. A Dystopia is a Utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Jonas’s community is a Dystopia because of lack of knowledge , sameness , and complete control. First, there is lack of knowledge. In chapter one the pilot was was released. Also in chapter 13 Jonas was transferred him the memory of color. The Giver only transferred him one memory. Some days the giver would add more memories. When Jonas received…

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    The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Just one of few Newberry Award winning books she wrote. Lois Lowry had a wonderful childhood, with a lot of moving, that influence here writing. Her books also have a unique style that was also was also influenced by her past. All the award winning books she wrote gave her a legacy as a creative and wonderful author. Most of her books relate her as well. Lois Lowry’s life influenced the style of her books which gave her a legacy that won’t be forgotten. Lois Lowry’s…

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    The Giver Perfect Society

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    What do you think a perfect society is like? People across the world have spent ages trying to build a utopian society. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry is a story about a boy named Jonas who found out he had a special role in his society. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas gets selected to be the Receiver of Memory, which is the most important job. Jonas meets the previous Receiver Of Memory, now called Giver, who provides Jonas with memories of all sort; pain, happiness, sorrow, and death. As he…

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