people who hide from their past. Everything you live helps to make the person you are now.” by Sophia Loren. Everyone has memories of pain and ecstasy of the past‚ but we should keep them so it will help us in the future. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the receiver is the only one that holds all the painful and happy memories. The Committee of Elders asked him or her for advice. The receiver then looks into the memories and these memories tell him what to do or not to do. Memories can be a lesson
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There is no doubt that challenging or difficult situations can reveal the best or worst characteristics in individuals. These similarities and differences of overwhelming personal adversity in Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Giver by Lois Lowry will be discussed. Napoleon does not enjoy the idea of having a democratic government so he chooses to exile snowball to start a dictatorship. The selfishness in napoleon’s leadership is contrasted to the hardship that Jonas must face when refusing to
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Lois Lowry‚ a Newbery Award winning author once said‚ “I’ve never been a writer of fairy tales. And if I’ve learned anything through that river of memories‚ it is that we can’t live in a walled world‚ in an ‘only us‚ only now’ world where we are all the same and feel safe. We would have to sacrifice too much.” In her novel The Giver there is a common message of sameness. It is in how people in the community dressed. It is how they looked. Their clothing and haircuts were always the same. Little girls
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In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the protagonist lives in a futuristic utopian society. Jonas is selected to be the community’s Receiver of Memory‚ the only person who knows of the memories from the past. Jonas thinks nothing of life before becoming Receiver‚ like the rest of his community. But‚ when he receives memories‚ he finds the deeper meaning to life. Lowry’s characterization of Jonas reveals the importance of valuing life through her development of Release‚ the game of war‚ and saving
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Date: February 8‚ 2013 The Giver: The Fight For Freedom The challenging attempt to successfully achieve a Utopian Society‚ while balancing the freedom of the citizens has existed since the first civilizations. Lois Lowry’s‚ The Giver (1993)‚ follows the story of a young boy named Jonas living in a supposedly utopian society as well discovering the flaws in the community’s apparent freedom and safety. The community of The Giver violates many basic human rights as set forth by the Universal Declaration
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Using Appositive Phrases Practice 1: Matching An appositive is a sentence part that identifies a person‚ place‚ or thing named in a sentence. Appositives often begin with the words a‚ an‚ or the. They always answer one of these questions. Who is he? Who is she? Who are they? (people) What is it? (place or thing) Appositives occur at the beginning of a sentence (opener)‚ between a subject and verb (s-v split)‚ or at the end of a sentence (closer). Examples of Appositives Opener:
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A dystopian society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world. In the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society under corporate control. Which means that the government controls many of the citizens’ decisions. In this novel the protagonist‚ Jonas gets chosen to become the record of memory. So he will get all the history of the world. He starts to realize that his community is not what it said to be. He didn’t like that fact that he has been lied to for his whole 12 years of living‚
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The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy‚ named Jonas‚ who lives in small town‚ but this town is different. They do not have memories‚ so that there is sameness in the community. By having sameness‚ they can control everything to a point where there is no pain. They govern sameness by having no color‚ no memories of the past‚ you do not choose your job‚ and you do not know who your real family is. Choosing your own book to read for the summer has many challenges involved. You will have a hard time
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Caldecott Award Winners Locomotive Written and Illustrated by Brian Floca This book tells the adventures of a family on a journey across the transcontinental railroad. The author/illustrator‚ Brian Floca‚ gives the reader a look into the past‚ describing what it was like to ride a locomotive in the 19th century. He used muted colors which I found beautifully soft and feel the illustrations would draw the reader into the pages. My favorite part of the book is the book flap‚ when opened kids will
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