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    Persuasive Essay: The Giver Imagine living in a world full of lies‚ a world where there are many secrets‚ a world where what you see is not always what it is. Jonas has lived all his life in a world like this. Can you even imagine a perfect‚ uniform and fully equal life for all people? It would be a boring life‚ right? At the end of the book‚ Jonas gets tired of all the lies of the community in which he lives and decides to escape. Many people like his father‚ his foster brother‚ Gabe

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    Dystopia In The Giver

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    Creating a perfect world would be the hardest challenge for the smartest people on Earth to ever face. In The Giver by Lois lowry jonas lives in a community in which he thinks has no flaws. When jonas turns twelve he selected to be the receiver of memory in training. As jonas receives the memories from the giver he learns how his community is really an very bad place. He also realizes that the community has taken away so many good things. Some of the things that they have taken away are the right

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    Reflective Essay: The Giver by Lois Lowry The Giver by Lois Lowry is a directive novel about how structured lifestyle could lead to absence of being a true human. In a lifestyle of freedom‚ people are not mainly subjected to how they should feel and also what to have feelings for. For instance‚ in a country like United States‚ as a citizen you have the right to freedom which is stated in its Constitution. In such‚ there is little to no infringement as to what you choose to believe in or have feelings

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    The Giver Society refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share culture. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver "1993‚" Jonas grows up only knowing the existence of his society. The society in which The Giver takes place is known as sameness. Everything is done the same‚ and nobody knows different. It is considered rude to ask a question that makes another citizen look different. In the book Jonas has lighter eyes compared to everyone else. It would be wrong to bring his eye shade up in conversation

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    The Giver Sameness Essay

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    Imagine a world that is perfect. A world where no one gets hurt‚ physically or emotionally. Where people don’t have to choose‚ or take risks in life‚ because all of their major life choices are made for them. This is the utopian world that The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ creates. There are no landforms or weather that couldn’t even hurt a fly. All big life choices are made for the people who live there‚ by an unbiased committee‚ so bad choices simply can’t be made. Most feelings are restricted‚ so that

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    She sank to the floor looking for the world as if she were staring right through the checkered brown and blue linoleum to behold the burning hot-lava core at the very center of the Earth. ‘It’s Poppa‚’ Momma said in a chocked voice‚ as her perfect features stretched and pinched” (Law 8). As the story begins‚ Momma unwilling answers a call notifying her of Poppa Beaumont’s accident and condition. After Mib’s Poppa slips into a coma‚ the Beaumont family is separated when Momma and Rocket urgently go

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    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” - Lois Lowry. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel about a boy named Jonas who begins to see his community differently. The book begins with what seems to be a perfect place; it turns out that the people in the Community are living shallow and superficial lives. As Jonas begins his work as the Receiver of Memories‚ he gains wisdom and through that wisdom‚ he begins to learn the history of

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    Technology In The Giver

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    Steven Spielberg once said‚ “Technology can be our best friend‚ and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story‚ interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream‚ to imagine something wonderful‚ because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.” This is shown through The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ and through “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury. The Giver takes place in a utopian society where there are no

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    The Giver

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry “The Giver” was a fabulous read about a seemingly utopian society where the people in the society are spared from any discomfort‚ such as hunger‚ war‚ even pain from a scraped knee. This was an excellent book‚ but also very hard to read and very disturbing. The first half is like a science fiction novel about a utopian society. But the second half really gets into the emotional consequences of that society. “The Giver” reminds me‚ in a way‚ of the movie “Pleasantville‚” where

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    Community In The Giver

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    The giver is about a perfect community. A community where nothing bad happens and everybody is the same. In the community there is a boy named Jonas. Jonas has been selected to be the Receiver Of Memories. Being the Receiver is a great honor because you have to keep all the community’s memories and learn about what used to exist in the community. A utopia is a place where everything is perfect and nothing bad happens. A dystopia is the opposite of a Utopia because it is a place where everything is

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