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    societies determine the difference between the right and wrong choice is by asking a specific person or group of people. According to the novel “The Giver” it states that “The Committee of Elders sought my advice….and they came to me for wisdom.”[Lowry, 140] This quote concludes that the Committee of Elders and the community ask the Giver to make the important decision because of how much wisdom he holds. Therefore the community looks up to the Giver. In our society they usually conduct a vote…

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    (1) The first thought that I remember was how in 1975 on a regular morning while Lois Lowry husband was away at work and her kids were at school. Lois Lowry had gone outside to scrape the leftovers to her dog and then she smelled something in the air that trigger one of her childhood memories when she was 8 or 9 years old in 1945.After she had a flashback on one of her childhood memories she went back into her house and went to her typewriter and sat down and began writing about that day. Her…

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    The Giver Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, an important job called the receiver of memory must be assigned to an appropriate candidate. This is because society has chosen security over freedom, they have no danger, no pain, no real emotions. So they must select someone to hold all the memories of suffering, sorrow, and elation so citizens don 't have to experience the risk of choosing wrong or getting hurt. There were many pieces of evidence that assigning a new receiver of memory was a rare…

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    "Oh. Jonas was silent for a minute...we don 't dare to let people make choices of their own. Not safe? The Giver suggested. Definitely not safe, Jonas said with certainty. "What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And they chose wrong? (Lowry 98) Making wrong choices can seem catastrophic to someone who has never made their own choice before. However, look at how many people make their own choices on a daily basis. Do all their choices end up being the correct one? No. Yet, from wrong…

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    What defines an idealistic society? It could be where everyone is accepted, there are no social classes, or where no one is homeless or has to think about their next meal. In contrary, what defines a dystopian society? Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, Harrison Bergeron illustrates a dystopian society with total equality. The government achieves this status by authorizing handicaps for the citizens ensuring that nobody is smarter, better looking, or more athletic than anybody else, thus accomplishing…

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    Have you ever thought of living in a place where everyone is the same and one is different? Boring, right. In the book Anthem, Rand fully expresses her thoughts about the role of the individualism and of society. Anthem is a dystopian novel, written in 1937 and published in England in 1938. The book is about a dystopian society, in which there is no “I” and only “we” is allowed. The dictatorship of Anthem tries to keep the members of its society brainwashed by focusing on the importance of…

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    The idea of Utopia came about through Thomas More’s Utopia. More’s idea of his utopia society is where there is no class, everyone is of the same level and wears the same clothes except to distinguish between male and female. Everybody look the same, act the same and just practically doing the same thing everyday without any freedom to do things they want to or they would probably never wish to as they are expose to the outside world just in their own Utopia society. Furthermore, the housing and…

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    What is a utopia?In Jonas’s community it had many things that could make it a utopia. They focused on making sure that there was peace, no pain, no judgment, no violence, and not 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…

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    A New, Unrecognizable Society Imagine a society and a city where rules are so strict that everyday is the exact same. Everyone's the same. Everything is the same. Everyone and everything relies on equality to live their everyday to day life. In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 envisions his own perfect world without the cities control. Will he include the society he grew up in within the society he envisions? The city seems to rely on these rules and…

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    In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas the main character was born into a society where everyone and everything is structured to be equal. By equal, that means that their is no such thing as race, because no one in this utopia that Lowry has created is able to see color. Jonas on the other hand stands out from the rest because he has, “the Capacity to See Beyond” ( Lowry 79) his light eyes allow him to see color, only few with this uniqueness are selected to be the Receiver of Memory. No…

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