everything their government does and as a result‚ they are oblivious to what the reality is and how terrible they are living their lives. Individuals should learn to question everything and not accept the flow of why things are happening. In the novel‚ The Giver‚ Jonas and his friends and family live in a dystopia where so many things are taken away from them such as‚ the ability to see color and the ability to feel emotions. Later in the novel‚ Jonas doubts his government and runs away from the town‚ thus
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would have no feelings. So‚ Jonas’ old community chose the wrong decision‚ by making one person carry all the weight of the memories‚ when they should be shared. In addition‚ we each have and share our own unique and special memories. Jonas and the Giver become heavily weighed down from the millions of memories that they have to store in just their two minds. This is not alright to dump all these terrible and joyful memories on two people‚ but instead they should be shared. Also‚ people should have
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community‚ things were very chaotic. The giver had gathered everyone into the auditorium. "Now" he said. Our reciever in training has left us once again‚ a tear ran down his cheek. He longed for Rosemary‚ and Jonas. But he continued. "I would like for everyone to try and grasp something. Please stay quiet. Think of a time that you are walking in a field of green grass‚ the fresh air." Everyone was silent‚ they attempted to pull forth this memory. Then‚ the giver told them to raise their hand in the air
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society of The Giver. There is no color in their society. There is also no weather and no landscape. The elders want everything to be the same so the world is plain. In The Giver‚ color does not exist in their world. The elders have gotten rid of it. When the Giver shows Jonas color he says‚ “You’re beginning to see the color red.” Jonas doesn’t know what the color red is. This means that jonas has never heard of colors‚ which means that colors don’t exist! The Giver tells him “at
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is significant because the people haven’t had the memories for many generations. This quote pertains to the story because it shows how important and useful the memories are because they will never go away or end with one person. In the end of “The Giver” I believe that Jonas and Gabriel died because why is there a random sled at the top of the hill? He said that he felt elsewhere close and that he knew where it was‚ maybe he was hallucinating from hunger or coldness. Finally‚ maybe the memories are
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In many scenarios if authorities do not allow creativity to grow‚ kids will not be exposed to new possibilities and they will not be able to foster innovative ideas. In the novel‚ The Giver‚ authorities do not allow the usage of creativity let alone have class in creativity. As a result of not allowing individuals to have creativity‚ their society and civilization is boring and plain with a lack of innovative and amazing inventions because
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society include Sameness? In the novel‚ The Giver by Lois Lowery‚ Jonas‚ the main character‚ lives in a society where everyone portrays Sameness. Sameness is where everything is equal. For example‚ every family has four people: a mother and a father‚ one boy and one girl. Jonas is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory holds all the memories‚ so that the members of the society don’t have to feel pain‚ or happiness. The Giver‚ the old Receiver of Memory‚ and Jonas can have
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out will cause chaos. There will always be someone who thinks differently and persuade other people into their thinking. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared”(The Giver pg.86). In the Giver‚ when the new receiver of memory‚ Jonas saw it that one person should not suffer like this and would be better if everyone would have a little of the memories. He saw from the memories that the community took away also took a lot of common
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Remember a time where you felt as if you were different or unique in a good way. Does it make you feel like you are your own person? In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas’s society didn’t have the option of having their own personalities. Everyone was the same all the time. They dressed the same and ate the same thing as their neighbors each day. But one boy‚ in particular‚ Jonas‚ was granted the opportunity to experience choice‚ instead of Sameness. Jonas shows the readers that our choices sculpt who
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The main theme shown in The Giver is the idea that good cannot exist without evil‚ and evil cannot exist without good‚ thus making reaching a perfect society impossible. It does not matter how amazing an experience is‚ unless you have something bad to compare it with you can never taste the true meaning of that moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly‚ they also do not feel grief because they have never
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