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Utopia: an imagined place or state of thing in which everything is perfect. Except in this novel, they are living it. Jonas’s community names themselves a utopia. No color, love, or war. However, the most important thing they are missing is memories from the past. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns that joyful, sorrowful, and painful memories are all very important. Joyful memories are very important. They give us a positive outlook on life. Joyful memories are the first ones…

Anelise Colenzo September 12, 2017 Language Arts Period ⅞ Truman Show and The Giver Similarities What if you lived in a world where there was no real emotions. Imagine figuring out that your whole life was a lie and your world was all controlled. “The Giver “by Lois Lowry and “Truman Show” have many similarities that you can notice throughout both of the stories. Trueman is the main character of “Truman Show” and Jonas in the main character in “The Giver”. In the…

Novel Paper In the novel “the Giver” by Lois Lowry tells of an unusual way of life. The community is unaware that there is more to life then what is currently taking place. Therefore, an example of their way of life, the parents are not really their birth parents. “The Giver is set in a perfect world of the future. This Utopian community is free of disease, prejudice, and crime, but it is also missing diversity, memories, and love.” (Franklin)The parents are more in what we would consider a…

The community in the Giver represents a Dystopia. The Society in the Giver by lois Lowry does represent a Dystopia. The lack of the quality of uniqueness in each individual means everyone is the same and equal to each other resulting in no poor and many more. No one has experiences or feelings of pain, love, hate, jealousy of others ,etc because all of these experiences and feelings both positive and negative all go to the Giver. However the Elders attempt to Depict the society as Utopian…

“We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, beliefs, rituals.” – Randa Abdel-Fattah. We have discovered our past, present, and future in our differences, and without that, we are all the same. The Giver is a science fiction novel by Lois Lowry about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas who believes that he lives in a perfect community. After the important Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas receives a major job with unique…

One of the centralize themes in “The Giver” is obedience. Throughout this novel, Jonas symbolized rebellion in a dystopian society and the author, Lois Lowry, channeled the ugly and realistic truths of the world through Jonas. Lowry exposed her readers to poverty, suicide, euthanasia, violence, and sexually explicit content. She emphasized on the point of the community’s constraints and lack of freedom, the same issues that are faced in today’s society. The members of this dystopian community…

Holes Book report In the book Holes, Stanley, and Zero are the main characters. Stanley went to Camp Green Lake because he stole Priceless’s shoes and it was a punishment. When Stanley got to Camp Green Lake all they did was did holes. And some squid told him that the fifth hole is hard to dig. They fell asleep at nine-o’clock PM and they had to wake up at four-o’clock the next morning to finish their digging their holes. In the beginning of the story Stanley became friends with Zero when he…

Since the beginning of time humans have managed to create natural shelters and settlements to survive. As humankind progressed, society has advanced. The structure of human kind gets more complicated and requires a type of government, law enforcer, and rules. In The Giver by Lois Lowry creates a futuristic society where humans of the community are dehumanized. Dehumanization happens in a dystopia/utopia society. Dehumanization means to take away basic human rights and to not be worthy of…

How many freedoms would you give up for a peaceful society? We cannot give up such rights for a peaceful society. the giver is about all the flaws of what is thought to be a utopia. A young man (Jonas) becomes the receiver of memories and discovers many terrible and wonderful things the old world had, such as animals and color. Jonas decides the community should see these memories he has received from the Giver. Jonas then sets off to escape the society to save a young child that he learns to…

Stanley should no go to Camp Green Lake. I think sending Stanley to Camp Green Lake was a mistake because he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It's like saying he is a thief . Who Just walks with Clyde Livingston's shoes when everyone is panicking about where the shoes are. The first reason is that Camp Green Lake isn’t a Camp, the place is just a cruel punishment.My other reason that Stanley shouldn't go to Camp Green Lake is because most people say it’s a torture Camp.…