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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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    Stanley should no go to Camp Green Lake. I think sending Stanley to Camp Green Lake was a mistake because he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It's like saying he is a thief . Who Just walks with Clyde Livingston's shoes when everyone is panicking about where the shoes are. The first reason is that Camp Green Lake isn’t a Camp, the place is just a cruel punishment.My other reason that Stanley shouldn't go to Camp Green Lake is because most people say it’s a torture Camp.…

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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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    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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    Orbis Pictus Award Essay

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    The Orbis Pictus Award is the most prestigious award given to authors that successfully create a nonfiction book for children. The authors are celebrated with this award if their work meets a certain set of criterion – accuracy (of the person/event they focus on), style (interesting and stimulating writing), organization, design (attractive details), and usefulness in the classroom – and only one author is honored with the award each year. The book must be written with the purpose of sharing…

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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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    The Giver Arguments

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    The Giver Argument Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, there is a 13 year old boy named Jonas living in a community without love, color, weather, and little change at all. He gets chosen to be the Receiver of Memories and receives many memories, including one of love and warmth at Christmastime. He realizes that his community lacks so much, and runs away, taking with him a baby boy named Gabe who was going to be killed because he wasn’t developing as fast as the other babies. They run away to a…

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    The novel ‘Holes’ is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats, who has a “curse”, which was placed on his great-great grandfather, which gives him bad luck. He then got sent to a detention camp named Camp Green Lake, for a crime he didn’t commit. Stanley and these other boys at the camp that have committed crimes, are told to dig deep and large holes every day. As the story goes on, the author intertwines the past with the present, which gives a definition on why the boys at the camp have to dig holes…

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    Recently I've been reading an astonishing book called The Giver. The Giver has brought me tons of knowledge regarding every genre you could ever imagine. The Giver is mostly about a boy named Jonas, who lives in a dystopian society. The book explains everything that happens in the society very detailedly so it is easy to get into character. One thing that really caught my interest was when Jonas was dishonest to Asher. This caught my interest because Asher and Jonas are truly good friends and…

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