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    I will be giving my interpretation of the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. This book is set in a society that at first seems to be a utopian society but the further you read on it gradually appears to be more and more dystopian. So this book is about a boy named Jonas going through his twelfth year of his life. Jonas is soon selected to be the “Receiver of Memory” he is to be given the past memories of the time before sameness‚ or before the society became a utopia. As the story progresses Jonas soon

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    Why Do I Love A Book?

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    A library and a book are very different things. I love books. However‚ I hate libraries. This may seem contradictory. How can someone love a book so much but hate its natural habitat? The answer lies within a bittersweet story of seeing my future‚ not so long ago‚ that tells the story of my education. It was January of my freshman year‚ and my classmates and I were brought to a library to be introduced to the pieces of paper that would follow us forever: our academic transcripts. My classmates joked

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    The 20th century is been called the age of suspicion. Nothing is what it seems‚ it’s about the lack of trust and believes. There are 3 big figures of this century that talk about suspicion‚ Darwin‚ Marx‚ and Freud. The kid is the best portrait of this suspicion‚ cause they don’t know everything and they don’t have full control of the world around them. Dorothea Lange is a famous photographer from the 40’s‚ she went in an intern camp and pictures them. In 17S is peculiar the episode of Rosie washing

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    Arminius Analysis

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    Arminius chose to fly instead of teleport so that he could watch the scenery underneath him slowly change. He didn’t enjoy the sprawling forest or gente fields; Arminius used the situation to observe possible routes for retreating. During his fight with Caius‚ Arminius had his teleportation spell copied and traced. If he teleported too much‚ the magicians of his new world would figure out how to do it‚ and that would put him at a disadvantage in certain fights. All magic left traces from where the

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    "It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon had set. Complete darkness‚ not a hint of the silver world outside‚ the windows tightly shut‚ the chamber a tomb world where no sound from the great city should penetrate “(9). Throughout Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ there are multiple instances of deep‚ meaningful imagery as presented in the preceding sentence. Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel which is set in a futuristic American society. The main

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    Imagine a world where firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Fahrenheit 451 is set in a utopian‚ or dystopian to us‚ society‚ where books are burned and people rarely have real social interaction. Although Fahrenheit 451 seems nowhere close to our society‚ we are both alike and different to their world. The freedom of information is both very different and somewhat alike. In Fahrenheit 451‚ information is restricted‚ and people are given so many useless “‘facts’ they feel stuffed‚ but absolutely

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    Fahrenheit 451 shows us how censorship can go too far. In this novel‚ it is in the future where books‚ whether for knowledge or entertainment have been banned by the government. The government uses censorship of these mediums to control the public by limiting what kind of input the community has. This theme is shown by the settings‚ the characters‚ and with symbols. The settings in the novel really convey the theme by showing how the society is controlled by the government. Take for instance

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    The riveting question that Ralph asks in the Lord of the Flies on page 139 is “What makes things break up the way they do?” Ralph asks a compelling question‚ one which could be answered in many ways. Ralph ponders what is it that makes societies fall apart and regress. Civilizations and societies are based on order‚ rules‚ and authority; which are necessary to keep it together and avoid falling apart into savagery. In The Lord of the Flies‚ we can see how these aspects of a functioning society can

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    In 1984 private life in Oceania came to an end due to the use of surveillance by the party as a source of mechanics of control over people’s lives. People lived under the watchful eye of the Thought Police through telescreen‚ child spy‚ and other Party members. The people of Oceania were not free to say what they wanted or felt should be done by the Party. It is not safe to express your opinion towards the Party that is governing you‚ whether in public or private. People lived in fear‚ they always

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    Montag In Fahrenheit 451

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    Ever wonder how a person would change over the course of living in a dystopian society? Well‚ in the story of Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ Montag is the protagonist. Montag is a firefighter‚ which is where they burn books instead of putting them out. Captain Beatty is the same as Montag‚ but not that quite… Ray Bradbury shows the differences between Montag and Beatty and shows how it affects Montag over the story‚ it also changes our perspective. Monag has achieved to think‚ with a help of a

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