or to love one another. In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ a 12-year-old boy called Jonas finds himself in a dystopia when he realizes that there is more to life outside of his sheltered community. Although the people of Jonas’ community know no different than their way of life‚ the society is a dystopia‚ rather than a utopia. " ’It wasn’t a practical thing‚ so it became obsolete when we went to the Sameness.’ " (84) The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old
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parents’ values. This is the exact concept that is presented within The Giver‚ where Lois Lowry uses intricately detailed imagery and mentally stimulating word choice to appeal to a child’s inner diplomat. Within the book‚ Lowry teaches children the purpose of their rights and how damaging and unjust it would be if their memories‚ emotions‚ thoughts‚ and actions were all monitored and controlled. Furthermore‚ Lowry boldly expresses the idea that perfection is not always what it seems to be. Be that
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“SAMENESS” IN THE GIVER What would it feel like living in a world which everyone is same and the life is monotone?In “The Giver”‚written by Lois Lowry‚there’s a community based on perfection and the citizens who have strict and ethic rules to prevent their community from becoming unethical and unequal.Lowry conveyed her ideas both with in advantages and disadvantages‚and the diversity which citizens in the community have lost. To begin with‚the main advantage which citizens have is the relief
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Reflective Essay: The Giver by Lois Lowry The Giver by Lois Lowry is a directive novel about how structured lifestyle could lead to absence of being a true human. In a lifestyle of freedom‚ people are not mainly subjected to how they should feel and also what to have feelings for. For instance‚ in a country like United States‚ as a citizen you have the right to freedom which is stated in its Constitution. In such‚ there is little to no infringement as to what you choose to believe in or have feelings
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major life choices are made for them. This is the utopian world that The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ creates. There are no landforms or weather that couldn’t even hurt a fly. All big life choices are made for the people who live there‚ by an unbiased committee‚ so bad choices simply can’t be made. Most feelings are restricted‚ so that no one can hurt anyone else as a result of the bad feelings that can come up. Lois Lowry calls this situation Sameness. Sameness is a major improvement from our world today
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Locke Mrs. Bennett Communications for College 12 April 2012 No Freedom of Choice How would you like to wake up every day and not have any choice in what you wear? That is what it is like for the members of Jonas’s community in The Giver by Lois Lowry. The community’s main goal is for everyone and everything to be exactly the same. The community in The Giver eliminates freedom of choice and promotes sameness by choosing jobs for the Twelves‚ choosing spouses for the community members‚ and eliminating
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nothing to read. Regardless of whether you’re a reader or not‚ you still use books. They provide the information that is the basis of life; the everyday things. People that live in the communities of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Giver by Lois Lowry don’t have books. How do they live? It seems very hard to a person in today’s society to understand the lives of the people without books. In Fahrenheit 451 books are completely banned. The protagonist Guy Montag’s job is to burn books so that others
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"The giver" takes place in a dystopian society where everything is regulated‚ no one does or says anything without the Council knowing; Their jobs‚ spouses‚ and children are all chosen for them‚ everything is on a schedule everyone is on a routine‚ get up go to work come home eat sleep repeat every single day. There is no time for recreation or anything of the sort. In some ways this is superior to our own society‚ perhaps it would be better to suppress certain emotions of the human psyche. We evolved
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not exist? How do you describe a dystopia? In Jonas’ community‚ in the ‘Giver’ written by Lois Lowry ‚ he is living in the community where everything is the same‚ organised and pain free‚ basically he is living in a ‘Utopia’. For him everything is perfect the way it is but when he was chosen as the receiver of memory for the community he discovered dark secrets that lie ahead. In the giver book by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas is living in a community called sameness where feelings and colours does not exist
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In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry a utopian society in the future promotes efficiency by limiting freedoms. The main character Jonas gets chosen to be receiver of memory where he receives all the memories in the world so the people of the community do not have to bear them. Lowry demonstrates that love is more important than conformity through Jonas’s understanding of the community’s structure‚ release‚ and his love for Gabriel. Lowry illustrates that love is more important than conformity
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