Perseverance In The Giver

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Perseverance is essential for success in this world. This is what I think the authors of the two books I read were trying to tell the readers in their stories, ‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry and ‘Legend’ by Marie Lu.

In these stories the characters, Day and Jonas, however very different, are, like many things much more similar than you think. Jonas rebels against the ‘government’ in the community. He wants everyone to have memories and see color. In the other book, Day fights through many injuries to get his little brother, Eden, some plague medicine. He leaps off a three story building to get his brother some plague suppressants. At the ceremony of twelve, Jonas was given the job of the receiver of memories. He was told he could not tell anyone

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