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Novel: The Giver
Group: O
Essay Topic: rejection of society
My Feedback: While you do include some quotes here that connect with him breaking the rules, you need to connect the entire idea of a major literary element. Also, it is not clear that you understand the logical fallacy or method of persuasion, as you don't really connect your points back to the image you created.

Your goal (the goal should be based on your paragraph assessment and the feedback you received on your last major essay): My goal is to make sure I answer the prompt of the essay. Last essay I didn’t quite answer it, I added in quotes that did not make sense.

Due to losing the trust of his close friends and family, Jonas turns …show more content…
Climate change strikes his mind as he begins to wonder where the snow and hills went. (83) “Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?... But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it.” He begins to wonder where all this stuff has gone and why he is isolated from it. (101) “Did you know there really were elephants? Live ones?” His sister Lily is the first victim of his continuous chain of rule breaking. Telling people about memories is not allowed because reciever of memory is his job. At the beginning of the book he thinks his job is all fun and games because he can learn about the past, but he begins to see some of the bad and not all the good. Page 121, it says, “Jonas did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, he didn't want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, did not want the pain. He wanted his childhood back again.” He hates it. He hates his job, he doesn’t like seeing war memories and other bad things, he wants it all to go away. He wants his childhood back. (129) “The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.” He rejects the pill, throws it away and it is all built up from memories. The reason for this is “There could be love,” Jonas whispered.” He wants to feel loved after hearing it is a meaningless word. Slowly learning the truth Jonas is rejecting his society and why he is isolated from

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