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    Memories In The Giver

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    The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, becomes the Receiver, after a fail with the previous one, and begins to have memories transported into his mind. The community has no memories and only the Giver and Receiver share this heavy responsibility. The job of Receiver is a major role in the community because this person advises the Committee of Elders using memories from the past to help them make decisions for their future. When Jonas becomes the Receiver, he begins to experience…

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    The Giver Theme Essay

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    Giver, Jonas doesn’t start to feel anything until he starts to receive memories from the current Receiver. In this essay I get to talk about three themes, which are Individuality, Memories, and Emotions. I think that these are the most important themes of this story and are the main reasons behind why what happens, happens. In the current world, being individual is normal because everyone has their own uniqueness to them. We’re used to individuality, so we don’t recognize it as much as Jonas…

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    are wrong and afraid of the power the book has to prove how wrong they are. Banning “The Giver” or evening attempting to ban it is a mistake. The book teaches kids wonderful things and helps them explore a world of feelings that they are, much like Jonas, just being awakened…

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    Will he live or be lost? The Giver is an interesting movie with a young man named Jonas. He lives with his father and mother and sister lily. The Giver is a novel that copies the world today. Jonas and all the other 12 year olds in his world are given jobs. He, among them, is given the most important job of receiving all the memories of the world. He learns that there is actually color and truth about his world. It copies the world today because the whole point is that when your 12 in that world…

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    Jonas had been living in a suppressed community all his entire life. Where the orderly commanded every single aspect of citizens lives. A society without liberty of choice, expression, thinking or feeling. Where the life without color, pain or past described the lack of meaning. A place where there wasn’t possibility for unexpected, inconvenient or unusual situations to happen because most of them were pre-calculated and under control. When the ceremony of twelve came, Jonas was selected as “the…

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    The Giver Epilogue

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    The echo was perhaps strange, though Jonas had to check it out. After all, it was the first sound he heard that didn't involve Gabe whining or him shuddering due to the vast coldness of the winter breeze. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As Jonas and Gabriel tried to keep up to reach the unusual sound that was coming from above, he couldn't help but notice that the planes were starting to come back. All of a sudden, Jonas’s face changes from a…

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    play a role in a human’s life are explained through the remarkable novel entitled The Giver. The main character Jonas discovers the importance and roles of free choice, memories, and feelings. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the learning of memories leads Jonas to create new found feelings of love and isolation with the freedom to choose right and wrong, indifference to the straightforward,…

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    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 jobs to tear specific liking. Secondly, in the community no one will ever starve or be starving. In the book it says; “He…

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    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…

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    Lois Lowry's The Giver

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    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 release all the memories that were transmitted to Jonas into the…

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