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    The community in the Giver represents a Dystopia. The Society in the Giver by lois Lowry does represent a Dystopia. The lack of the quality of uniqueness in each individual means everyone is the same and equal to each other resulting in no poor and many more. No one has experiences or feelings of pain, love, hate, jealousy of others ,etc because all of these experiences and feelings both positive and negative all go to the Giver. However the Elders attempt to Depict the society as Utopian…

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    diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, beliefs, rituals.” – Randa Abdel-Fattah. We have discovered our past, present, and future in our differences, and without that, we 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…

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    One of the centralize themes in “The Giver” is obedience. Throughout this novel, Jonas symbolized rebellion in a dystopian society and the author, Lois Lowry, channeled the ugly and realistic truths of the world through Jonas. Lowry exposed her readers to poverty, suicide, euthanasia, violence, and sexually explicit content. She emphasized on the point of the community’s constraints and lack of freedom, the same issues that are faced in today’s society. The members of this dystopian community…

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    humans have managed to create natural shelters and settlements to survive. As humankind progressed, society has advanced. The structure of human kind gets more complicated and requires a type of government, law enforcer, and rules. In The Giver by Lois Lowry creates a futuristic society where humans of the community are dehumanized. Dehumanization happens in a dystopia/utopia society. Dehumanization means to take away basic human rights and to not be worthy of humane treatment. The two types…

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    How many freedoms would you give up for a peaceful society? We cannot give up such rights for a peaceful society. the giver is about all the flaws of what is thought to be a utopia. A young man (Jonas) becomes the receiver of memories and discovers many terrible and wonderful things the old world had, such as animals and color. Jonas decides the community should see these memories he has received from the Giver. Jonas then sets off to escape the society to save a young child that he learns to…

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    Bryan Lee The Giver Final Period: 3 Well-known for its utopian society, The Giver by Lois Lowry is a highly controversial book in primary schools. The Giver is about a “perfect” world where fear, differences, conflict, and pain is eliminated. The simplest way to form this society was to take away the memories that everyone once had. The protagonist, Jonas, is the new Receiver of Memories that has to receive memories of the past from the current Giver. Jonas doesn’t realize that the…

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    Could you imagine what it would be like if you lived in a world without any color at all? 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,…

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    perfect, we can never all be the same even if we try it. the utopian world we’re searching for can change into a dystopian world. The Giver and Harrison Bergeron are stories of a society trying to be perfect but changed into a cruel world. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a “perfect world”. The world where there is no war, no famine, no racism, no criminals, no colors, nothing. Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a science-fiction short story. Both of these stories are very similar in…

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    What if everything in life was the same? Well, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, it is. This book is about someone named Jonas who gets his assignment at age 12 as the Receiver of Memories which allows him to see what is outside of the community and realize that not everywhere everything is the same. Jonas sees outside of the community and realizes that the rule of sameness is bad in some spots but also good. There are many advantages and disadvantages. However, sameness is something bad 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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