Imagine a community where there is no love‚ sadness‚ anger‚ color‚ choice and everyone is suppose to be the same. In the book‚ The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry‚ a 12 year year boy named Jonas‚ goes beyond his community. Jonas lives in a false bubble of reality-quite different from ours. The town‚ is literally called‚ The Community‚ which infers positive aspects of social life. However‚ what is hypothesized is a very unhealthy place because community leaders promote sameness‚ lack of emotion‚ and
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Choices Choice: the act of choosing between two or more possibilities. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas. The novel is set in the future in a community that has strict laws and rules. No one in the community knows about the past before the community apart from the Receiver‚ the person who holds the memories. Jonas is given the Assignment (job) of the Receiver. As his training progresses‚ Jonas learns more about the past and how different the past is from the now. One of these
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The Lottery - Reading Comprehension By Karen N - 9C · The townspeople are holding the lottery because it is their tradition that they have followed for many‚ many years. · The people didn’t stop the lottery because it was considered [kind of] absurd to do so. It is a ritual that they did‚ and it was part of who they were. · I don’t think the writing style of this story would be considered horror. The way the author describe the story throughout and at the end did not send me any chills
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The book‚ ‘The Giver’‚ by Lois Lowry is a novel depicting a society where standards and rules are everything. Citizens of the community aren’t allowed to pick a single thing on their own: from the clothes they wear‚ to the assignments (jobs) they will work they rest of their lives. The community has been blindsided for years‚ and is highly unaware of the the pick-n-choose world they are missing out on. Consider that our current government had announced they were planning on recreating a population
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It is difficult for us to imagine a world without color‚ personal freedoms‚ and love‚ but in this book‚ the society is exactly this. Being able to make your own choices is really important‚ most of us don’t realize it right now but it’s important to appreciate freedom. In the Giver‚ what may seem like a perfect society is actually a dystopia is because theres no individuality‚ you are assigned a family‚ and jobs were assigned as well. To begin with‚ individuality didn’t even exist in this community
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The Giver INTRODUCTION The book was great! This book and its story are unique. The Giver is a deftly crafted work‚ both stunningly beautiful and deeply disturbing. Finding myself being imperceptibly lulled by the peace‚ order‚ safety and serenity of Jonas’s world; being awakened by the sickening thud of reality’s steel-toed boot in the gut‚ leaving both him and me breathless and disoriented in the aftermath. This story is haunting and powerful. It’s a raw portrayal of the presumed moral sacrifices
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When a society strives for equality‚ there is a danger of loss of freedom and individuality among that society. In the book The Giver‚ the main character Jonas lives in a world where everything is perfect or so it seems. Everyone is controlled and are unable to make their own choices and they have count on the elders to make the their choices for them. Jonas realizes that the way they are living their lives is wrong and decides to change the way they live. The world that is Jonas’s community is wrong
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Should communities have one person hold all the memories? The good ones that bring joy to you when you are sad? The bad ones that teach you what not to do? The one about the past that help you learn? No way do you want that. Unlike in The Giver‚ people should carry their own memories in their communities because it helps people remember the past‚ brings joyful memories to you when you are sad‚ and helps you learn about the past of your community. How would you know about the past if you don’t have
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Throughout the book “The Giver” We follow our protagonist Jonas through his early life. Jonas was soon selected to be the new receiver of memory. The elders stated that Jonas possessed all the traits of any other receiver of memory. Intelligence‚ integrity‚ courage‚ and the power to see beyond. The traits of Character that Jonas displayed are not uncommon to our contemporary society. Jonas before his assignment was just like any citizen in his society‚ always found between the lines set for him
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In life every person faces challenges‚ bumps in the road‚ obstacles that they have to surmount. In the novel‚ “The Giver‚” Jonas is constantly having to overcome new challenges. In particular‚ the great journey to elsewhere. The author‚ Lois Lowry leaves the end of the book ambiguous‚ and it can be interpreted in many ways. In many ways the ending is left unclear whether Jonas dies‚ is dreaming or he actually escapes to elsewhere. In others it is quite obvious in how the story ends. In the story
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