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    Imagine sand in your eyes and glaring heat taking you down one second at a time‚ all while digging a 5 foot wide by 5 foot deep hole. That’s the life of Stanley Yelnats IV in the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar. The book “Holes” is a mystery comedy novel released on August 20th‚ 1989. The book “Holes” Starts off with a teenager named Stanley Yelnats IV. Stanley and his family have had bad luck ever since his no good dirty rotten pig-stealing great great grandfather Elya Yelnats made a promise he did

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    The Giver Free Essay

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    Freedom is a right we are born with‚ that cannot be taken away. We fought for our freedom so we could make our own decisions and the choices we have the right to make. In a “perfect” community though‚ that is not an option. Life is not about the people there‚ it’s about sameness and safeness; and they have no freedom. In The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas lives in a community just like this where everything is assigned for them‚ and they have no freedom of choice. When Jonas turns 12‚ he gets assigned

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    The Giver Essay

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    Could you ever imagine living in a community where there are no feelings‚ memories of the past‚ or color. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the main character Jonas is singled out to become the new Receiver of Memory for his community that strives to be perfect by stopping emotions‚ taking away color‚ memories of the past‚ and many other things‚ except for the Receiver. He learns about Elsewhere‚ the real truth about life‚ through memories he is given‚ both good and bad. He is not allowed to tell

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    The Giver is about a boy named Jonas‚ who lives in a dystopian society where the citizens of the community make no choices in their lives instead the communities leaders decide for them ( The Giver‚Lois Lowry‚ 8‚12‚15)They believe that if they let people make their own decisions‚ they would make wrong choices‚ so the leaders think for the people’s safety‚ they shouldn’t let them make them. If compared to our society‚ there would be many similarities of how they run the government but differences

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    Scene 1: Jonas lives in a dystopia Jonas is the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In Jonas’s community it’s natural to be doing everything the loudspeaker says‚ it is the way to surrvive. Only Jonas and the Giver can see in color. Everyone in Jonas’s community thinks it is natrual that the leaders can listen to every conversation. All adults have to apply for a spouse and children. Which means you get assigned to a family unit. Not very many people are even aware there is much life

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    Families In The Giver

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    Imagine a “fake” family in a community‚ where families are complete strangers to each other. These families are just made up of 4 people and not even any grandparents. There is no actual bond between the family members. That’s how families are in The Giver’s community. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a “12” year old boy named Jonas. Jonas’s community can be described as “Utopia” and this community has certain rules that everyone must follow; so the community could be trouble-free. There are assigned

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    The Giver Strength

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    Free Will‚ A Source of Strength: An Analysis of Choice in The Giver Free will is crucial to an individual’s life‚ a source of strength for all humans. Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) is about sacrifice‚ rules and order‚ the consequences of peace‚ and ultimately‚ the significance of free will. Jonas‚ the protagonist‚ lives in an intended “Utopian society”. It is a society without passion nor apathy‚ independence nor enslavement‚ created in attempt to produce an orderly community where pain is nonexistent

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    Jonas In The Giver

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    Everyone is supposed to be different. In the novel The Giver the protagonist‚ Jonas is different from everyone else. Jonas sees things no one else can. He’s sees color and memories from the past. Anyone could compare their lives to Jonas‚ but not all. In conclusion‚ everyone can see color it’s normal for us but not for him. Jonas’ first color he sees is red‚ compared us on earth we understand all colors. In the novel Jonas and Asher were tossing an apple back and forth and Jonas noticed the

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    The Giver and the Flowers are both books that involve the main character to lose his or her’s innocence. The Giver is where Jonas learns memories‚ and the flowers are where Myop learns the reality of the world. Overall the two stories were based on the main character learning what reality is. The Giver takes place in a dystopian community. In this community‚ everyone is the same and there are many restrictions. In this story‚ Jonas was selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The reason Jonas was

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    Most of the characters in this book show a respect for some of God’s rules although they do it unintentionally. The Giver takes place in a society where there are really no emotions and the people don’t understand death. Because the Giver takes place in this kind of society where everything is the same there are no churches or religion. Because the characters in the book don’t understand death a lot of time they will kill people unintentionally. Such as when Jonas’s father has to release babies what

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