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Utopia is perfect but is it possible to achieve utopian society? Everyone has their different views of what a utopia can be but there are always to many challenges people will face trying to create a utopian society. There will never be a utopian society because there will be too much pain and suffering. Families in The Giver are almost fake they have no real connection or love in their families. In reality there is unconditional love no matter how bad the kid messes up. In a telling of…

Essay #2: Censorship and Banned Book Have you ever read a book that offended you? Some people try to challenge and ban books because they feel offended. Even children’s books have been banned in some places around the world. Someone who challenges a book is trying to remove a book from a class or library to restrict other people from reading it, but when they are successful the book gets banned. Banning a book means that the book is restricted from everyone who wants to read it in that area.…

The novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a book about a rather unusual community somewhere in the world. It consists of: a utopia, a perfect, strict, very precise community, Sameness, our main character Jonas, and a Giver of memories. This community is constantly being watched by other people in the community to analyze each person's day so that no one breaks the rules, and no one makes a mistake. And because of the so-called Sameness that the council’s community used to create the community,…

trees in what appears to be a forest. While examining the cover it appears that the images are realistic rather than an animated design. On most covers displayed in bookstores or libraries, there is a gold medal between the old man and the forest that shows the John Newberry Medal. Having this medal largely displayed on the cover illustrates that the book is widely known, influencing the reader thoughts on the novel. Cover A of The Giver does not appear to be targeted to a young audience, which…

I’m arguing that in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community in which the main character lives in is utopia. Firstly, it’s a utopia because of the pre-organised lives that everyone lives and enjoys. In the book it says; “he was certain that his Assignment, whatever it was to be, would be the right one for them (Lowry, 52-53).” This shows the faith and trust that Jonas and the people around him, have in the elders to choose their jobs correctly. They also trust that they will choose their…

Compare and Contrast Essay What if you lived in a society where everything was “perfect” and everyone was the same? In the book The Giver, the main character Jonas lives in a so-called “perfect” community. There are specific rules so that everything is not chaotic and out of order. The concepts of the the rules kids can only start riding bikes at the age of 9, when Stirrings started then you had to take the pills, and kids got their lifetime jobs at the age of 12 and were considered adults are…

The title of The Giver is demonstrated throughout the book by The Giver transmitting memories to Jonas, giving Jonas love and wisdom, and then Jonas passing on that love to Gabriel. All these memories gave Jonas the ability to see his community as it really was, lifeless. Nobody in his community was able to perceive the true meaning of happiness or pain. This made Jonas angry because he wasn’t able to share his true feelings with anyone except The Giver. Together they devised a plan that would…

In The Giver, Jonas– a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same– makes very few choices, and because there are no choices, there is no pain, fear, war, or hatred. (cc) People do what they are told to do, so they look like they live in a predictable way doing things without questioning why they should be done. (cp) Their society is so bland, that they cannot even see colors! (cp) Jonas embarks on a journey to leave the community and end this type of “Blandness life”…

The Giver was written by Lois Lowry in the year 1993. The Giver was a huge sensation to young adults. Lois Lowry has received many awards for her book. The greatest achievement for The Giver was The John Newbery Medal in 1994. Other medal awarded to Lois Lowry was the Regina Medal, William Allen White Award, and the American Library Association Award. The Giver has a presumptous plot. The story takes place sometime in the future in an utopian community. In the Utopian community,…

In the book, The Giver Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memories. The Giver transmits his memories before the “sameness” to Jonas. In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is selected to participate in The Hunger Games, she and Gale, the other participant from her district have to fight twenty-two other tributes to win. Both stories have many differences, along with many similarities, some of which including the location of the towns, and even the main conflict. Both stories have many…