Analysis Of The Giver

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The purpose of our advertisement was to give the audience the message/theme from the novel The Giver. The story has multiple messages, but our group chose to do the message of “love shouldn’t be taken away”. We chose the message “love shouldn't be taken away” because in the novel, the people in the community took pills to stop the “stirrings” or the actual feelings for one another and for them to actually start having the strong feeling of love they would need to stop taking the pills and then they will start having those strong emotions (mostly love in this matter). To represent that, we put the Giver’s ideas and position to convince people that “love shouldn’t be taken away” (the people in the community don't have feelings, such as; happiness,

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