In Lois Lowry’s book‚ The Giver‚ a picture is painted of a perfect utopia. In this place we soon figure out that there is no such thing as differences. In this Utopia‚ there is no emotion‚ no color‚ no war‚ no poverty and no hunger. But‚ not everything is as perfect as it seems. One of the events that affected me most deeply was finding out that this Utopia was really a Dystopia. In the beginning of the book‚ we meet a young boy named Jonas who is about to undergo the ceremony of twelves. During
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The Giver is a fiction book written by Lois Lowry. The main character‚ Jonas‚ lives in a town where everything is perfectly structured and nothing is out of place. December is approaching‚ which means that the Coming of Age ceremonies are coming up‚ and Jonas is worried about his ceremony. He is turning twelve‚ which is when kids receive their job assignments. During dinner‚ Jonas’s family shares their feelings. Jonas’s father says that he is concerned about a newborn named Gabe‚ who is having trouble
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for every person to agree on the same thing and be able to like the way it is. People have different views on the way anything should be done and not every time people agree. A utopian society will never be accomplished. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry the people live in a utopian society and everyone lives with like emotions. The people of The Givers community feel no pain‚ no happiness‚
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will grieve the loss or death of their children. Every citizen is required to to take a pill that removes most human emotion‚ love‚ hate‚ anger‚ sadness and real joy..are all masked by this simple pill that everyone takes and nobody questions. (Lowry pg.6) Jona‚ a young twelve year old boy that lives in a futuristic‚ highly restrained community‚ all under the control Of The Elders of the society‚ down to the spouses that are chosen for them‚ the children that are assigned to parents not of their
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Mary Angelique A. Auman English 10 Mr. Swenson August 11‚ 2014 The Giver by Lois Lowry Set in a community which was controlled by the Elders sometime in the future. Jonas was an eleven year old protagonist who was mature and really responsible. He became the Receiver of Memory for their community when he turned twelve. The Giver was an old man who transferred his old job of receiving the community’s memories to Jonas. He trained Jonas how to be a receiver and told him everything about the
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“The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ was published in 1993‚ and won a Newberry medal in 1994. The book takes place in a narrative third person‚ using a limited omniscient person. The overall plot is that in a communist community‚ Jonas is a kid like the citizens that do not know what else is out there instead of themselves. Jonas learns memories that bring him to the point where he wants to share the memories of the world. The family units have rules such as dream telling and feeling telling. In chapter one
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Mgeladze 26/02/2014 Essay It is an uninteresting book teacher! It was phrase which I told‚ when I started reading of The Giver‚ but after a few chapters I understood‚ that it was good and ideally book with deep thought. The Author of this book is Lois Lowry. The main character is Jonas 12 years old boy‚ who lives in community in where everything is calculated and there are no feelings. People move with bicycle and every year they celebrate their birthday with teaching something new and getting something
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Fictional worlds are constructed by writers to sometimes narrate important realities about being human. Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” is a curious mixture of utopian and dystopian world that explores the cost of fictionalised harmony. The Giver takes place in an unknown time “after the ruin” from which is emerged a society strictly controlled. The ideas of rules and control‚ sameness and memory is depicted in the opening chapters. Whilst we live in a world where rules exist and we understand their role
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For my independent reading project I chose to read The Giver written by Lois Lowry. This story takes place in a “perfect” society. A society with no color. A society with no feelings. A society with no individuality. A society with no freedom. This book is set in a dystopian society‚ where everyone is the same and everything is chosen for you The main character in this story is a twelve year old boy named Jonas. He got placed into a job as reviver of energy. In the beginning of the book he is very
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The Giver by Lois Lowry is a science-fiction book. Th story is set in a community where there aren’t any hunger‚ war and pain. Everything seems all right to him‚ until the day he turns twelve. Jonas is selected to be a receiver of memory‚ which is a job that there is only one person and the selection Helds once in ten years. After being the receiver of memory‚ Jonas’ life changed‚ and his happy and vital times is taken away from him‚ he became lonely. Later on‚ he discovered different dark sides
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