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Mike Yang
Hadikusumah
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30/ May /2013
The Most Meaningful Thing There is one book calls The Giver, the community is a utopia for everyone in there. Jonas is the main character. The utopia is perfect to everyone in the community. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. It’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. The time goes by, Jonas got one year training for receive, he realizes memory is the most meaningful thing, because they need it to understand the experience in their life. In The Giver’s utopia, people don’t have any memory. As Jonas said, they can’t help it, they know nothing without memories. That’s the life created for the community. By the way, Jonas received the exactly memories from the Giver, there were pain, happiness, mad and so on. He noticed that his own community did not have memories. They even did not understand the experience in life. That’s truly sad. Love is a unique memory, but people in the community missed this memory. Only the people had this memory feel love is special. Jonas just knew that he had grandparents, and that like looking at himself looking in a mirror looking at himself looking in a mirror. Jonas hesitated. “I certainly liked the memory, though. I can see why it’s your favorite. I could not quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.” (125) Jonas got a new memory about love in the family, but he thought it is foolish to say this is love first. But next, the Giver looked up suddenly. “ Jonas, I gave you a memory that I told you was my favorite. I still have a shred of it left. The room, with the family, and grandparents.”(141) In this scene, the Giver was talking to Jonas about his favorite memory. As
Hadikusumah
ELD3 Per 0,1
30/ May /2013
The Most Meaningful Thing There is one book calls The Giver, the community is a utopia for everyone in there. Jonas is the main character. The utopia is perfect to everyone in the community. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. It’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. The time goes by, Jonas got one year training for receive, he realizes memory is the most meaningful thing, because they need it to understand the experience in their life. In The Giver’s utopia, people don’t have any memory. As Jonas said, they can’t help it, they know nothing without memories. That’s the life created for the community. By the way, Jonas received the exactly memories from the Giver, there were pain, happiness, mad and so on. He noticed that his own community did not have memories. They even did not understand the experience in life. That’s truly sad. Love is a unique memory, but people in the community missed this memory. Only the people had this memory feel love is special. Jonas just knew that he had grandparents, and that like looking at himself looking in a mirror looking at himself looking in a mirror. Jonas hesitated. “I certainly liked the memory, though. I can see why it’s your favorite. I could not quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.” (125) Jonas got a new memory about love in the family, but he thought it is foolish to say this is love first. But next, the Giver looked up suddenly. “ Jonas, I gave you a memory that I told you was my favorite. I still have a shred of it left. The room, with the family, and grandparents.”(141) In this scene, the Giver was talking to Jonas about his favorite memory. As
Cited: Lowry,Lois. The Giver. New York: Dell Laure-leaf, 2002 ----------------------- 1