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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…

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…

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…

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…

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia ¨Is it worth giving up the experience of beauty and joy and love in order to end pain and suffering?¨ - The Giver In 1992, Lois Lowry visited her father at a nursing home in Virginia. Her father was losing his memory. When Lowry showed her father a picture of her sister who had died, her father had forgotten her name, and also his daughters death. Lowry's mother on the other had remembered everything about that devastating loss. This situation made Lowry wonder…

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a society free of hatred, memories, or individuality as a person. At age twelve, each child gets assigned roles that they will receive training on to eventually become productive members of society. In the beginning of the book, Jonas has complete trust and respect for his parents until the Giver shows Jonas’ father killing the baby, and disposing of the body through a garbage chute. When Jonas sees this, he can’t but help lose trust in his…

In Lois Lowry’s story The Giver, Jonas becomes the receiver of memory. He is the most important factor of the community. The Receiver gets all of the old memories from the old world. The memories can include pain, suffering, joy, or, happiness. He will soon know what it takes to become the receiver and how it will mature him. In the beginning, Jonas was quite responsible for his age of eleven. He was different than the other community members though. All of his friends knew what they wanted to…

Throughout the book The Giver Jonas was given huge responsibilities being chosen as the Receiver of Memory and having the fate of his community in his hand. Living in a community where you have no say in how you live your life, who you marry, who your kids are, or where you work must be hard and quite honestly it couldn’t be considered living, so discovering who you are in this environment must be impossible. But Jonas discovered and understood why he wasn’t the same as the others in his…

The different types of language that people use in everyday life is related to their culture and even maybe their religion. The language that Lois Lowry used for the book “The Giver” is different. A weird kind of different, but different. The Language of Utopia. The one’s that are probably the most important to the book are “stirrings” because it tells you that, that person is growing up. “Newchild” because every community needs to have new life such as a baby. Last but not least the “Receiver…

The Power of Color In The Giver written during the 1990’s and set in the future, Lois Lowry presents a dystopian novel on a society where everything is the same, but one kid plans to change the whole society. A young man named Jonas that has an ability to see color in a colorless society. After being selected as the new receiver of memories, he realizes how much the society is missing and plans to change it. He plans to leave the society so that everyone can receive the memories he was…