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    The Giver Research Paper

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    In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the Chief Elders build a community to protect people from the real world. Jonas receives the job of becoming the Receiver and works with the Giver who gives him memories. Jonas realizes that feelings and making your own choices are good and people should have the right to do that. Jonas runs away from the community and sets free the memories. Jonas realizes that the life the community is living is not a real life because it does not include the best parts…

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    Jonas is a dynamic protagonist in The Giver. Jonas is an average 11 year old boy with dark, short hair, pale eyes, and he is relatively fit. In the novel, Lowry describes Jonas’ physical traits directly. However, she describes his personality indirectly through how other people view him and how he acts. Jonas has two main friends, but there is no true social hierarchy. Compared to the others his age in the story Jonas has stronger, more confusing emotions. Jonas’ purpose in The Giver is to show…

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    In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a world of conformity. When Jonas became the new Receiver, he was presented with memories from years past, pleasant and troubling. Jonas quickly realized that conformity gives you some favorable options such as, security and respect, but, he longs for more, such as love, hope, and, individuality. Jonas travels beyond the community, the only home he has ever known, to Elsewhere, where he can set his burdening memories free and find a better…

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    Memory In The Giver

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    a story about a boy named Jonas in a big community and how the Giver transfers his memories to Jonas, but the people in the community can’t have memories because the society doesn’t want the people to know everything. In the Giver the theme is the importance of memory because memories were given to him by the giver. Lois Lowry revealed the theme of memory by giving Jonas the main character a lot of important memories that Jonas wants to have. Also, the giver gives Jonas a lot of the memories…

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    of it. Memories need to be shared”-The Giver-. In The Giver Jonas shows his community that being different is what make humans human. That it is okay to be different and to feel things like emotions. Between the film and the novel there are a lot of similarities. One similarity in both the movie and the book is that Jonas gives memories to Gabriel This is important because Gab would not be able to calm down and or sleep, or go with Jonas to elsewhere without being quiet. Another similarity is…

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    to be the new “Receiver of Memory”. By being selected Jonas must receive the memories from The Giver the previous “Receiver of Memories”, but he soon realizes that his community is not what he thought it was. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that being an individual cause you to see differently. Although some readers may believe that being an individual does not change your perspective Jonas’ experiences show that people have their own…

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    In the movie, Lars and the Real Girl we meet a boy named Lars he is in his mid 20s-30s suffering from lack of human needs in his early childhood. He shows many traits of a variety of mental disorders. In this film we see the healing he goes through into becoming a man. Lars learns how to truly love and be loved by someone. In the beginning of the movie we see a clip of him being in his house separated from his loved ones and alone in his dark house with a blanket , we may not realize it yet but…

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    The symbols in the giver and in the Truman show has similarities but more differences than they do similarities. In the giver some of the symbols are the apple which means knowledge and they also have the sled which means freedom in the giver. Although some things in the Truman show that are different symbols than in how giver that are the plane or the light that fell meaning where he was was fake. In both the giver and the Truman show red meant love and feeling while water meant death and…

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    Prologue To The Giver

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    Transmitting Friendship The Giver placed his hand on Jonas’s back and Jonas was once again brought to a new memory, different than what he is used to. Jonas remembered this place, he had been somewhere like this before. He felt a soft towel underneath him and his hands were sinking into the grainy, brownish, smooth sand.The sky was dark and gloomy, but the sunset made up for it. Jonas remembered. The beach, but it was nothing like the first memory he was given. The wind was blowing cold, harsh…

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    Imagine what it is like to live in a community with no color, no feeling, and no music. Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, shows the life of a boy, Jonas who lives in a place where color, feeling, and music do not exist. In his whole life, Jonas has no idea what it is like to feel something. However, Jonas soon learns about the community’s deep secret as he spends time with the Giver. He has experienced the real world, the one with true color, feeling, and music. This novel reveals that the memory…

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