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    Jonas values life , but probably doesn’t know the reason of life yet, until he gets the memories. Additionally,”Sideways, spinning, the sled hit a bump in the hill and Jonas was jarred loose and thrown violently into the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him, and could hear the crack of bone. His face scraped along jagged edges of ice and when he came, at last, to a stop, he lay shocked and still, feeling nothing at first but fear.” He finally had fun doing something that wasn’t in his…

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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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    The giver showed Jonas a video of the release. They stick a needle into their veins and inject something into them and made them go limp. Then they through the person. Jonas got really mad and then for doing that to a person. The giver explained that they don't have feelings. Then they planned Jonas would run away and all the memories come back to the community and everyone would get the memories. Then it all went wrong because they were going to release game the next day. So Jonas left that…

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    Image that a society was sameness, same haircut, can not see color. It's a whole different world. In modern society you can be who you are. In The giver by lois lowry there is a boy named Jonas who he was picked to be the next receiver of memory . Everyday he will go see the giver and recive memories. Then Jonas started to notice something after he receives the memories. Although the book begins with what seems to be a perfect utopia but it turns out that it's a dystopia. First, the way in…

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    the film the scenes adjust to what Jonas (Brandon Thwaites), the main character, has or has not seen, felt, or heard through the Giver (Jeff Bridges). Jonas is assigned his job at the age of eighteen, and is deemed to have all the qualities to be the next Receiver, the only person in the entire community to be able to receive memories of the past, before this utopian society was created. The giver, who is the current Receiver of Memory, is starting to train Jonas, the main character who is to…

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    Conformity In The Giver

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    Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is about a boy named Jonas in a Utopian society of sameness. In this community, there is no pain struggle, or diversity. Choices for all are made by a group of elder citizens. There is no color, no weather, and no change. The absence of difference leads Jonas to question whether the lack of pain is worth inability to feel anything at all. Through her characters, Lowry warns readers that to conform is to lose choices, individuality, and ultimately, free will. This…

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    it’s being unwound, or having to stay in a place where one would be controlled and watched. But Unwind has three protagonists while The Giver only has one. Jonas brings Gabe with him during his escape, while in Unwind, Connor, Risa, and Lev didn’t plan on escaping together. But the protagonists of both books have connections to infants, with Jonas and Gabe, and then Risa with the baby that Connor managed to obtain. The length of the books give them very different amounts of time to develop their…

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    The Giver Theme Analysis

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    becomes a Receiver of Memories , but then runs away and the memories that he has received begin to fade away back to his old community. Jonas’ develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that with every action there will be a positive or negative consequence. (outcome) Although some readers believe that there is only one type of consequence jonas’ experiences show that when you do something another thing will happen and it will be good or bad. The consequences in The…

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    The Giver Ending Analysis

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    who knows.so here is the truth for jonases ending. Jonas forced his eyes open as they went downward,downward,faster,and faster and all at once he could see lights,and he reconized them,now he knew they where shining through the windows of rooms, that they were red,blue,and yellow lights that twinkled from treesin places where families created and knew where memories , where they celabrated love. as we can see , jonas is at the house now.as we know the book does not tell us…

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    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 responsibilities. As the new Receiver of Memories, Jonas is mentored by the Giver, a tired, old man filled with pain from holding memories of the world. Jonas learns that his community is filled with sameness. In fact, there are almost no differences.…

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