punishments. A disadvantage of Jonas’ community that factors into why the community is a dystopia is that the civilians have limited rights. The people have to “apply for a spouse” and are assigned a significant other during the Matching of Spouses (Lowry 48). In this ceremony the members of the community that applied for a husband/wife are paired up based on their character traits. Another right that the community’s members do not have is the right to vote. In the community all of the choices are made
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The Giver I have recently read the novel The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ and watched the movie Pleasantville. These works focus on making perfect societies. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community with many rules. He is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory and goes through great amounts of
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We have all failed and to fix it we have had to change things. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry the Giver had to change his methods after Rosemary(the receiver) applied for release and all the memories were given to the people of the community. When the memories came to the people of the community after Rosemary failed being the receiver the giver knew he had to change something. After the release of Rosemary the Giver changed his methods in hope of finally succeeding with Jonas by giving him
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Everyone’s desire is to decide if they want to become married and who they want to be married to‚ also having children of their own. In our society we are allowed to decide who we want to be married to‚ or have a family. The author of this novel‚ Lois Lowry‚ wonders how our community would be without having free
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What would it feel like to live in a world without love‚ friendship‚ family‚ or memories… The author Lois Lowry writes about a twelve year old boy named Jonas who is in a non-feeling Utopian society and is chosen to be something that he is not ready for. He becomes Receiver and as Receiver he has to take the burden of the memories of the past world and endure the mistakes they had made. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result‚ tries to change the Community. In the beginning of the story
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Gathering Blue I am doing a book review on Gathering Blue by the author Lois Lowry. This book all in all is pretty good‚ just some parts can be difficult to grasp at once. This books plot is mainly about this girl that has deformed leg‚ twisted‚ she is now an orphan. Her father died at war before she was even born. At the beginning of the story the mother dies of illness. This book isn’t predictable and is consistent for the most part. I think that it is very believable‚ just a little less advanced
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English 93 9MWF May 15th 2013 Sameness does not mean perfectness The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopian society. Jonas lives in a seemingly perfect community in which there is little pain and little crime. People are polite. Everyone belongs to a supportive family. But this harmony comes at a price. There is also no choice‚ and real emotions are nonexistent. Life is dictated by strict rules. This story is set in a perfect
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My book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry was about a girl named Kira who lives in community where things are very weird. Kira had just become an orphan recently when her mother died of the flu. Since her mother died of the flu they had to burn down Kira’s house. Kira came to the grounds where her house was‚ and started to rebuild when a large women comes in and tells her she doesn’t own this space any more because her mother is dead and with Kira’s messed up leg she is useless‚ so they are taking her
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Ripped Apart Our world is far from perfect and because our world is far from perfect‚ We have seen what perfection could actually be. In these examples‚ it’s clear that living in a perfect society does not lead to happiness. The Giver‚ a book by Lois Lowry is about a young boy’s travels through a ‘perfect’ society in the United States sometime in the future. The people there have grown accustomed to a lack of choice in life. Their government has gone to the extent of removing winter and color from
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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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