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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    purpose. They want to tell you something more than just entertaining you. These tails almost always contain themes. These themes are ideas‚ thought‚ lessons‚ things that get you thinking about the meaning of what you are reading. In The Giver by Lois Lowry you can find many themes including memory and the past‚ rules and order‚ communication‚ isolation‚ and what I believe is the most important‚ choice. Now there are many more themes but I want to talk about choice. In this story Jonas‚ the main character

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    In The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the author uses sensuous qualities such as sight and sound‚ to vaguely describe the setting the characters live in. The text states‚ “He laughed silently to himself‚ picturing his sister droning on in the self important voice that all the speakers seemed to develop‚ saying things like ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES.” Speakers and announcements greatly affect the setting because they regulate the

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    or past.” (Lois Lowry‚ The Giver). Utopia sounds great being a perfect society with no problems existing. They might seem possible looking at many utopian experiments and how successful some are. A utopia is an imagined place that has a perfect society where there are no problems and nothing is new. Since utopias are perfect there are nothing wrong that can happen in them‚ nothing new can happen‚ exciting‚ dangerous‚ everything is the same with no difference. In The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the community

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    Lois Lowry Bravery

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    In Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars there is an illustration of bravery and courage‚ which is shown in the way that Annemarie protects her jewish friend Ellen. Throughout the book‚ Annemarie exhibits bravery; she is constantly conflicted with circumstances where she must act brave. Nazi soldiers lurk on the end of almost every corner‚ which makes the world that Annemarie and Ellen are living in is terrifying. However‚ although Annemarie was scared in many situations‚ she still preserved and was

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    for every person to agree on the same thing and be able to like the way it is. People have different views on the way anything should be done and not every time people agree. A utopian society will never be accomplished. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry the people live in a utopian society and everyone lives with like emotions. The people of The Givers community feel no pain‚ no happiness‚

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    Mgeladze 26/02/2014 Essay It is an uninteresting book teacher! It was phrase which I told‚ when I started reading of The Giver‚ but after a few chapters I understood‚ that it was good and ideally book with deep thought. The Author of this book is Lois Lowry. The main character is Jonas 12 years old boy‚ who lives in community in where everything is calculated and there are no feelings. People move with bicycle and every year they celebrate their birthday with teaching something new and getting something

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    literature for children each year. Upon reading “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry‚ the Newbery Medal winner in 1990‚ one can easily understand why this great novel won the coveted John Newbery Medal. There are many reasons as to why “Number the Stars” obtained the Newbery Medal but two main reasons stick out: The use of italics as a descriptive device‚ and the central theme pertaining to the difficulties of growing up. Firstly‚ Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars” focuses on Annemarie Johansen‚ a young protestant

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    Technology In The Giver

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    ” This is shown through The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ and through “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury. The Giver takes place in a utopian society where there are no feelings and there are many rules to follow to make it so “perfect”. Authors use futuristic plots and incorporate the overuse of technology to show how‚ when used too much‚ technology can be negative. Authors use futuristic plots‚ events that do

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    Most of us think that a perfect society would be great. But there are always some flaws to a utopian society. For example‚ in Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver‚ people think Release is just sending the people to a new place (freeing)‚ but really‚ they are being killed. I know because‚ “He killed it! My father killed it!” (188). In a modern day society‚ people can just die without having Release. Release is done to prevent sadness‚ but the people are oblivious to what they are doing. In modern day society

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    The Giver is a 1993 American children’s novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness‚" a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory‚ the person who stores all the past memories

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