Part 3‚ Summary‚ The Giver Assignment #3 The Giver‚ By Lois Lowry is a great story about utopias and sameness. Jonas lives in a utopia and does the same tasks as everyone else in his community. This is until they turn 12 and get their jobs/assignments. There are fish hatchery workers‚ nurturers‚ birthmothers‚ road cleaners‚ and food preparers. In a utopia‚ you don’t get paid in money. There is no currency whatsoever. If you fail to do your jobs or tasks‚ you get released from the community
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“Why doesn’t it snow in our community? Because Jonas they must keep the community in sameness. If we had snow we would have to have seasons and if we had seasons we wouldn’t be able to grow crops year round so we will not have enough food to feed the community‚” (Lowry). This rule described in Jonas’s community in Lois Lowry’s The Giver may sound unusual to us. But climate control exists all around the world today. After reading The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ most people would think that controlling
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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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of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it.” (20.194). The dreary‚ difficult and uncomfortable tone‚ explains how Jonas is facing challenging situation right now‚ Jonas hopes that this all changes. ‘But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain’. (13.135). The narration gives us the opinion of Jonas and
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In Lois Lowry’s The Giver the people of the community gave up person freedoms to achieve a utopian community where everyone was equal. Freedoms given up where pick your job‚ pick how many kids want‚ and individuality. But when became the Receiver of memories he change the community’s future. Picking your job was given up so each job had an equal amount of people. Also each job had an equal amount of help. This was not worth it‚ because if the people were not good at their jobs it wouldn’t be fun
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The Giver is about two main characters‚ Jonas‚ and the Giver. Jonas is a young boy living in a “utopian” society in which everyone’s life is controlled by a group of elders. When people who live in the society become a twelve‚ they are assigned a job. Jonas expected to receive a normal job like everyone else in the society. However‚ he was assigned the most important and honorable job in the entire society‚ the receiver. He then undergoes training for his new assignment that opens his eyes to many
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When Jonas was looking through his front door he could see all of the many different jobs that people may receive. “Looking through the window‚ he had seen no people: none of the busy afternoon crew of 8 Street Cleaners‚ Landscaping Workers‚ and Food Delivery
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It even takes away the ability to see color. All the colors that the citizens can see in the community are grey and white. Except for Jonas who starts to see other colors like red which first appears in his friends
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December is coming around the corner. Jonas is trying to find the right word to describe his feelings. He thinks he is frightened‚ and then decides that frightened is the wrong word to describe his feelings. Frightened is when an unidentified aircraft flies over his community and orders everyone to keep their bikes aside and go into the nearest building. He is very wary about his language‚ unlike his best friend‚ Asher. Asher always mixes up words and phrases. Jonas remembers the time when Asher was
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and joy adds more value to one’s life. The people who lived in Jonas’s community were unable to express any type of feelings. Jonas was the only person who received the memories of love. The way the author compares Jonas existence with the others in the community is in his ability to vividly see colors. Colors are used as a symbol of different feelings. For example‚ Jonas felt sympathetic toward Gabriel‚ and wanted to be
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