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    The Giver Sameness Essay

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    the same there is no holidays or change of season. Just simply everything is the same. The Giver is a dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, everyone is the same except the protagonist (Jonas). He can see colors and everyone else can’t, there is also Gabe and the Giver they all have the same color of eyes. Jonas, Gabriel, and the Giver are unique. They all have the same houses practically everything is the same. If sameness was brought into today’s society it would be bad because people wouldn’t…

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    The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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    In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the point of view is in one of the main protagonist named Jonas. Jonas lives in a “perfect world”. He is soon selected to become one of the most important jobs in the community which is The New Receiver of Memory. He is not to tell anyone about this job and the training that goes apart with it. He soon faces trouble between wanting to share these new things he learns or keeping it a secret like he is suppose to. He also sees all the flaws this “perfect…

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    The Giver Monologue

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    The echoes, or the music I heard grew heavier and heavier, instead of vanishing. I decided to go where the music came from, shoving all the snow and snow slide away to keep Gabriel warm, but the snow kept getting in our way. As I walked through the snow, all the memories from the Giver I learned came up in my mind growing in a cycle and I felt balmy. The colors, food I liked, the sleigh all I learned, all the memories warmth myself even in the snow. Yes, I felt warm, but as the memory grew, I…

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    Utopia, an imagined place and state of being in which everything is perfect. Jonas’s society is a utopia unlike modern day society. In The Giver they have celabrate birthdays, create families, and establish laws and rules somewhat like modern day society, yet both societies practice these things differently. A birthday is a celebration of age, This is shown in both the Giver and modern day society we celebrate birthdays. However we celebrate it very different. In The Giver all of the…

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    Color In The Giver

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    The Giver, a story about Jonas, a boy given the the career of Receiver of Memory, but will he want it? In the community he was raised in, there was no freedom, no happiness, and they feel nothing. They live in a life not even knowing what love is, what religion is, what color is. I disagree with the fact they are living without love, religion, and color. They are treated like dolls in a dollhouse, trapped and most never will leave. Love is something everyone has. It might not be forever…

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    The Giver Book Report

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    What do you think about The Giver? The book The Giver is about a communist community where they remove all freedom and love. This community is horrible because of its lack of freedom. This lack of freedom is caused by the fact that they don’t allow them to apply for jobs, and they release them if they mess up or are now useless. The main reason the community is so bad is because of what they do to the unfit young, twins, the old, or those who mess up more than three times. This is called…

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    having to worry about everything; but because of the all the positive things that they wanted they had to make it successful the caused it to be a dystopian soicety because of its lack of feelings, choices, and individuality. In the book The Giver Jonas the main protagonist has his job chosen as the Receiver and is chosen out of all the citizens to get all pain and happy thoughts from the past. From this he finds out his society isn't as great as he thought and goes decides to leave. Although…

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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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    The Giver Dystopian

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    who they like. The Cheif Elder put the people together by there education level and there jobs. Anyone in my society can date anyone of there choice. In today's society people have a choice on what type of man/woman they want to date. The people in Jonas society can have kids but they have to have them with the person that is choosen for them. We can also have kids, they can to but when it's twins one gets released then the mother gets one baby. When kids are born at the hospitals the doctors…

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    Jonas Edward Salk

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    Jonas was one of the leading scientist of the 20th century and also the discoverer of the Polio vaccine. Jonas Edward Salk was born on October 28, 1914, in New York City. His parents were Daniel and Dora (née Press) Salk. He had two younger brothers Herman and Lee. His education was very important to his parents and they encouraged him to study. When he was 13 years old he was send to Townsend Harris High School, a public school school for children gifted with intelligence. He was the first…

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