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    The Giver

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    The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a piece that had no limits when it comes to imagination and creativity. Lowry made sure not to make an boundaries that kept him from doing what he destined. Unlike many of the books, this book’s plot was so original. It makes one build up a burden of thoughts that may possibly be never answered. The theme itself aligns itself far away from cliche and one has to admire Lowry’s triumph as it is quite difficult to catch a theme that is so original. It also tells…

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    Imagine never being discriminated for the color of your skin, being viewed totally equal to your neighbor. But what if it came with a price, not so enticing anymore. In The Giver, future life claims to be a utopian society. When digging deeper we come to find out this society is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The Society shown in The Giver is a deterioration from ours in 2015. First of all, not being able to love is against human nature yet that is something not welcomed in order to achieve…

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    In The Giver, a boy named Jonas lived in a community where everything was planned out for you. At 12 years old, the kids get their jobs that they train for and have to do. What if you wanted to make a change? I do not support the community because you can not be different, there are few rights or freedoms, and people are released. Every body is alike in so many different ways. You probably could not even tell one person from another. Same intelligence, and same family unit. One mother, one…

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    Giver gives him memories both happy and painful of their past world to keep for the community. Eventually Jonas realizes that the community members need to feel pain in order to be truly happy and understand the true meaning of life. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a clear example of a dystopian society because the society is an illusion of a perfect world, citizens conform to uniform expectations and a figurehead is worshipped by the citizens of the community. The first reason why The Giver…

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    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” This is a quote from the book The Giver a story by Lois Lowry. The Giver takes place in a distant future where people have given up things like color and memories. Memories are given to the Receiver of Memory Jonas so that he may hold all the pain of things like war and wounds of all kinds so the rest of his society does not have to. In the end of the Giver while Jonas and Gabriel are…

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    Breaking all of the laws that Jonas did, and doing things that he didn’t want to do to reach his destiny, he was a true hero for saving someone whom he loved. One example of why I think that Jonas, from The Giver by Lois Lowry is a hero, is that he saved Gabe from a release, which is when the community will kill him intentionally because he didn’t meet the standards of life. When Jonas’s father said at dinner the night before, that Gabe would be released the next day, Jonas got upset and took…

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    Jonas’s community is a dystopia. His community can only do certain things that they can not break. In the book The Giver the kids have to get their jobs at the age of twelve. In their community every thing has to be the same due to sameness. Finally, they have lots of rules they have to follow. First, in the book The Giver Jonas’s community has to get jobs. They have to start volunteering at the age of eight. When they turn twelve the elders pick the job that they have to get. They have to…

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    The giver is a book written by Lois Lowry, the giver was first published in the USA in 1993and in 1994 in Great Britain. The giver is a science fiction-type novel about a boy named Jonas who lives a so-called perfect world where everything is controlled by strict rules and everything is the same. This novel questions what is right or wrong for society, and how differences and choices make life good. The title comes from the friend Jonas finds in his instructor (the giver). Jonas is assigned to…

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    Have you ever thought of having no emotions and 40 pounds of birdshot on you wherever you go? Sounds like torture, right? Well, the people in The Giver and “Harrison Bergeron” have to deal with this every day. In The Giver, they are kept in a special community away from everybody else. In “Harrison Bergeron”, people are equal every which way. To them, all this equality seems like nothing. The quote by Samuel Johnson reveals a key idea that perfection is not always perfect in The Giver and…

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    Why Is The Giver Weak

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    The Giver is a dystopian novel written by lois lowry. I also got the chance to see the movie part in school. I think that the movie adaptation was weak . Think that the producers did a great job. Overall i think that the adaptation to The Giver was weak. The producers of the movie added some characters. I think that some of these characters were not needed. Some characters were that fiona was not a nurturer in the book. I think that this was a good change because it made more sense that Jonas…

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