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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    can´t read a book. Nevertheless, choice is a major decisions of what people do, their actions. Jonas has changed significantly throughout ¨The Giver¨, because of the choices he has made. In the beginning of ¨The Giver¨ by Lois Lowry, Jonas makes a choice, a decision, to bring an apple home, because he noticed a difference. For some reason, Jonas was the only one to notice this difference in the apple. Jonas made this choice knowing full well that sneaking a apple home, probably was against the…

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    Epilogue To The Giver

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    Jonas set his head in the soft snow knowing how easy it would be to just give up. He looked at the grey sky. He was cold, tired, sore, hungry and felt like he had lost so much. The light sound of Gabriel's cry echoed in the vastness. Just as Jonas was about to close his eyes he felt one last memory. A memory of hope. He kept this one for himself not transmitting it to Gabriel. He felt less hungry, less tired, less sore and ready to walk as far as he could to save Gabriel. The memory lingered…

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    Jonas had settled into his new home, in the same village that he first came up to in that cold day nearly 3 years ago. On that day he had some mild frostbite, but Jonas didn't even care about the pain because the excitement about his new life in the world was too great. Jonas was technically adopted by a family, he and Gabe were now brothers. The family let him in with open arms. Jonas learned the sad truth about his community. It was run by a man with the name of Rick Morty. He tricked…

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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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    Jonas Salk

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    From the beginning of mankind, man has looked for a way to heal illnesses. Jonas Salk found a cure for one of the severely worst illnesses in the history of man, polio. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was a great discovery of his time, and it is still being used today to eliminate polio worldwide. His discovery of a vaccine against polio was one which was collected of killed viruses producing the antibodies to help the body defeat the disease without inducing it. As the argument heats up between…

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    Symbolism In The Giver

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    Caterpillar to a butterfly This represents the change Jonas goes through. The caterpillar symbolizes naive, ignorant, lifeless being. When he changes to a butterfly he knows about what colors, but experiences war, hunger, and poverty. He knows about the real world. The caterpillar to a butterfly represents vast change that Jonas goes through, when he starts training to be the next receiver of memory. Robot Jonas in the beginning of the novel, like a robot. People in Jonas's community has 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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    Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a boy, Jonas, who becomes the new Receiver of Memory and faces challenges, that causes him to make some tough decisions about how he wants to live. The society that he is living in has been the same since he was young. But now that he is older and is seeing it as a totally different place, he decided that the town is a place where people live as if nothing is wrong but the whole town really isn’t a happy place that Jonas wants to live in. His society has no…

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    the book The Giver, the protagonist Jonas lives in a Utopian society on a future earth where the community has no feelings and emotions. At the ceremony of 12, Jonas is assigned as the Receiver of Memory, a task that only one person receives. He receives memories of love, joy, sadness, and pain and starts to feel these feelings. After a month of training, he watches his father release a baby, he is shocked to find releasing a baby means death for the baby. Jonas finds out that baby Gabe will be…

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    Albert Einstein once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” This quote illustrates the idea that experience allows people to gain knowledge not only about themselves but about the rest of the world and the place where they live. The common man is shown as concealed from all the maltreat in the world and after viewing a petrifying occurrence, they are unaware of what the outside holds for them in reality. The story, “The Flowers” by Alice Walker and the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry…

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