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    English: Discuss how Lois Lowry creates different worlds in texts that comment on our own world in the novel‚ The Giver. | The Giver Essay | Cameron MacKay14/11/2010 | | Lois Lowry’s highly acclaimed children’s novel The Giver‚ constantly refers to important themes in the storyline to portray messages of morality to the reader. These are conveyed through themes in the book. Some of these themes such as the expression of Individuality‚ the issue of Euthanasia‚ and the Customs and Rules

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    In the Novel The Giver‚ the author‚ Lois Lowry‚ presents a young boy named Jonas living in a world that is full of conformity and no choices allowed. In the community which Jonas lives‚ everyone is assigned a job and is disciplined when they do something wrong. Along the way Jonas learns he has a special type of Job as the Receiver of memories and he has special advantages he learns and wants to give people in the community to have choices. Lowry argues that over conformity is detrimental and the

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    In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas lives in an imperfect world. His community is a dystopia. According to the text‚ utopias and dystopias is a term used to describe a utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Jonas’ community is a dystopia because of the lack of knowledge‚ sameness‚ and complete control. Jonas’ community has a lack of knowledge. The Receiver of Memory only knows the past. Families can only have 2 books‚ while The Giver and the Receiver of Memory have a whole library

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    The Giver‚ a novel by: Lois Lowry is a descriptively written book that projected an image of what seems at first to be a “perfect” world‚ A world that thrives on “sameness” of the people and creatures within. The novel also shows the glory of color and memory. Something that we use everyday‚ But in Jonas’s world it was taken from them by the elders of the past. The first reason you should read The Giver is because of the amount of descriptive language. One example of descriptive language is in

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    In The Giver‚ a science fictional novel by Lois Lowry‚ a boy named Jonas lives in a dystopian society. The society Jonas lives in is supposedly utopian society‚ a society that seems perfect. Jonas becomes the Receiver and he gets memories of what the world was like before his community. He notices that his community is actually the opposite of a utopian society‚ but that it is a dystopian society. Through all of his memories and time with The Giver‚ Jonas notices that he lives in a dystopian society

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    In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ again and again is a significant signpost that influences the story by showing how important the eyes are to see beyond and be “The Receiver”. In the story‚ Jonas is finally given his assignment‚ “The Receiver”. He is given his set of rules which almost completely contradict what he has learned all of his life. He now is able to do things such as lying and asking anyone questions which must be answered. He is told to meet the current Receiver at The Annex entrance behind

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    My book The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry is about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic world where there isn’t much diversity‚ there are no fear‚ misery‚ and other awful conditions in life. In this world‚ you don’t have many choices. When you’re the age of twelve you get assigned a job in the community at the Ceremony of Twelve. Jonas was enthusiastic about getting his job. He didn’t really prefer a job‚ but he liked to volunteer in the community. Jonas was privileged with

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    In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas’s personality is introversion for many reasons. When Jonas gets the job as the Receiver of Memory‚ he doesn’t like it and he thinks to himself‚ “No‚ I don’t. I can’t‚” and throw himself on their mercy‚ ask for forgiveness‚ to explain that he had been wrongly chosen‚ that he was not the right one at all”(63). Jonas gets selected as the Receiver of Memory but he doesn’t want to because in his head he is scared of the pain‚ but his heart is telling him to

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    Essay Have you ever imagined a world where the community concealed the true meaning of words? The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is a powerful intriguing novel. The meaning of words that describe emotions is called precision of language. The emotions like love‚ anger and jealousy and many others‚ were taken away from the community to create Sameness. The community also shelter the use of language by hiding the true meaning of words such as animals‚ stirrings‚ and war. The word “Stirrings” is use to hide

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    In Lois Lowry’s “The Giver”‚ in the society there are many rules and punishments. They may seem very strange to us‚ but most of them make sense. I will cover most of the rules and punishments in this artical. I will also discuss why the recruitments protect and pacify the civilians but take away the best parts of life. Moving on to rules and punishments. The rules include no competition‚ no violence‚ use precise words‚ don’t lie‚ etc. . There are some limitations that aren’t even rules‚ such as

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