Choices Choice: the act of choosing between two or more possibilities. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas. The novel is set in the future in a community that has strict laws and rules. No one in the community knows about the past before the community apart from the Receiver‚ the person who holds the memories. Jonas is given the Assignment (job) of the Receiver. As his training progresses‚ Jonas learns more about the past and how different the past is from the now. One of these
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In Lois Lowry’s award winning novel‚ The Giver‚ Jonas becomes the receiver of memories because of his ability to see beyond. In Jonas’ community‚ emotions are nonexistent and regular things like color‚ animals‚ and music have been erased from citizens’ memories. Jonas goes on a journey to find more about the history of the world and finds more about himself. He then leaves his "home" to save himself and everyone he ever knew. Jonas leaving the community benefitted Gabe because it saved his life‚
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Rileigh Leighton January 26‚ 2017 Mrs. Tiernan ELA “Usually it’s just a matter of birthweight. We release the smaller of the two”(Lowry 114). In the book The Giver the people who live in the community aren’t allowed to choose what they want to do with their lives. These people live under a strict set of rules solely focused on everyone being the same. The community gives no one the freedom to choose what they want. Whenever there is a set of twins in the community
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us to express our emotions‚ our interests‚ our passions and allows us to express our creativity. In this scene‚ it’s a beautiful summer day; right by the pool‚ it’s sunny‚ there are very few clouds‚ and a rich blue sky. In the story “The Giver” by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas lives in a society where nothing has colour‚ everything is the same‚ and no one has the freedom to choose. In his society‚ “the perfect summer day” doesn’t exist‚ from the sheer beauty of the vibrant colours‚ to the warmth of the sun‚
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The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is a fiction story about a boy named Jonas who is given quite an interesting job. He is assigned to be a receiver of memory. He lives in a community that treats its people unfairly because they have no decisions‚ no feelings‚ and no color. I disagree with Jonas’s community because you have no options‚ no emotions‚ and there are no colors. Readers need to understand this because they will have a clearer opinion of exactly why Jonas decided to leave the community. In
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Jonas knows then rebels against all of the rules and leaves the community with a little kid that was going to get released. The main character‚ Jonas‚ changes when he stops following the rules and starts receiving memories in the book The Giver by: Lois Lowlry. For example‚ in the beginning of the book Jonas was a big rule follower he used all the correct language such as not being allowed to say released without getting scolded Jonas used released once messing with a friend and was taken over to
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The utopian society described in Lois Lowry’s The Giver is very similar to the form of government described in the Republic by Plato‚ especially The Allegory of the Cave. Both are descriptions of totalitarian dystopic governments included the separation of people by professional class‚ assignment of profession and purpose by the state‚ and the absence of traditional family units‚ replaced by state-organized breeding. If Jonas‚ the leader‚ is the man released from the cave‚ then his obligations as
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The Female Body in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle By Sofia Sanchez-Grant1 Abstract This essay examines scholarly discourses about embodiment‚ and their increasing scholarly currency‚ in relation to two novels by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. Like many of Atwood’s other works‚ The Edible Woman (1969) and Lady Oracle (1976) are explicitly concerned with the complexities of body image. More specifically‚ however‚ these novels usefully exemplify her attempt to demystify the
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Isolation by Lucy Hayden Ancram in Paul Auster’s True Tales of American Life. The short story Isolation is a story about grief and how not to deal with it. Six teenage children‚ five girls and a boy‚ have lost their mother‚ she has been murdered‚ and their father does not know how to help them. Escape and intoxication are the means the father uses to relieve the children of their sorrow and they all go to a summer house on Long Island. The father brings booze and cigarettes but not much food and
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…the hills are open‚ the sun blazes down upon the fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape‚ the lanes are white‚ the hedges low and plashed‚ the atmosphere colourless. Here‚ in the valley‚ the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale; the fields are mere paddocks‚ so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass. The atmosphere beneath is languorous‚ and is so tinged
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