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    I think Jonas had no other option but to leave. Changing the minds of the emotionally neutralised beings, with no feelings or any acknowledgment of the real world, would be testing the unobtainable victory only solved by Jonas crossing the border of elsewhere. The members of the community would not comprehend the information Jonas would have to share, and would never, they can’t be changed, besides the Elders would stop Jonas at his first move. The people in Jonas’s community take pills for…

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    The Giver Point Of View

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    My Point of view is that Jonas and Gabriel Froze And Starved, Fell Into A dream Like A Coma. I chose that Point of View because Jonas and Gabe ran out of food and it was very rare to find any water. Which meant that Jonas and Gabe were starving with the lack of food they could find and have. Jonas and Gabriel also didn’t have the proper clothing to stay warm in all the new weather that they were experiencing. Without the proper clothing that we have now Jonas and Gabe were freezing and…

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    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…

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    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 love. Personal freedoms are more important than a…

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    The Giver Jonas Quotes

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    called snow, gabe,”This quote means jonas is trying to sooth gabe. This quote pertains to the story because the two try to make it past the boundary of memory. In doing so they two are left in the cold. In the end of “the giver” jonas and gabe are lying their freezing because, the sled and the ouse was just one of the memories that the giver gave to jonas, secondly, jonas might be dreaming because he doesn’t take his medicine which enables him to dream, and lastly jonas might not have made it…

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    is about a “perfect” world where fear, differences, conflict, and pain is eliminated. The simplest way to form this society was to take away the memories that everyone once had. The protagonist, Jonas, is the new Receiver of Memories that has to receive memories of the past from the current Giver. Jonas doesn’t realize that the community needs these memories until he realizes that Release is euthanasia, and the community don’t even know what they are doing is wrong. Many of the complaints that…

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    And everything is just the same grey hue? Well, this is the world that Jonas, the main character of The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, lives in. The book, The Giver, is a book where everyone lives in a community, where everything is perfectly controlled. This world is controlled by a group of people called the Elders. In the world that Jonas lives in, it would not fall into the category of utopia. Overall, the place that Jonas lives in is not ideal because there is no color, no information for…

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    What if everything in life was the same? Well, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, it is. This book is about someone named Jonas who gets his assignment at age 12 as the Receiver of Memories which allows him to see what is outside of the community and realize that not everywhere everything is the same. Jonas sees outside of the community and realizes that the rule of sameness is bad in some spots but also good. There are many advantages and disadvantages. However, sameness is something bad to…

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    My giving of The Giver In the book difference is eliminated by eliminating all color, choices, and emotions. To the people no one knows difference to them color is not a thing all they see is black and white also choices are taken from them. In The Giver sameness is negative thing because it stops creativity, people don't understand difference, and lastly it makes them behave like robots. Sameness is a bad thing. In The Giver sameness is a bad thing because... It stops creativity so…

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    The Giver Arguments

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    The Giver Argument Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, there is a 13 year old boy named Jonas living in a community without love, color, weather, and little change at all. He gets chosen to be the Receiver of Memories and receives many memories, including one of love and warmth at Christmastime. He realizes that his community lacks so much, and runs away, taking with him a baby boy named Gabe who was going to be killed because he wasn’t developing as fast as the other babies. They run away to a…

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