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 Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver Jonas matures through the whole book. He is as a child in the beginning and he matures in the middle and at the end is mature and wiser. If you looked back to the beginning and think about how Jonas acts at the end‚ you can see a big difference in his maturity level. The beginning of the book Jonas is still a child. He still has a lot of growing up to do‚ even though he is a pretty responsible for his age. In the book they have volunteer hours‚ and he spends
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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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When I was in the eighth grade‚ I read “The Giver” by Lois Lowry for the very first time. The story follows a young boy‚ Jonas‚ through his life in a seemingly utopian society‚ that has eliminated many issues the modern world now faces. In this world‚ every individual looks and behaves similarly. The world is seen only in black-and-white‚ with no color existing at all. When children are just twelve years old‚ they receive the job that they will perform for the rest of their lives‚ until they are
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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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The central feature of world history between late 15th Century and 1700 was the expansion of Europe and the spread of European culture and civilisation throughout the globe. Until 1500 the world had‚ on whole‚ pressed in on Europe. Beginning in the 1500s‚ Europe began to press out on the world. This period in history is known as the Age of Discovery or Exploration. During this time‚ driven by a variety of motives‚ European explorers mapped almost all of the world’s seas and outlines of the continents
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In the book “The Giver” Jonas has realized that living in his Utopian society has been all dandy until he learned what really goes on. He has had to live with out feelings and emotions for all his life. Jonas’s decisions may have affected the community but what he did what was right. Him leaving was the right thing to do. The decisions and emotions that Jonas and the other characters had during the book I chose a detail to go along with the emotion to match with the archetypal step. The first
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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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dystopia because there is complete control. There is also a lack of knowledge in the community‚ for instance no one has memories‚ they are all held by a person called the receiver of memories. Each family can also only have two books.In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ explains the ideas of sameness‚ complete control‚ and lack of knowledge. There is a huge lack of knowledge in Jonas’ community. For instance there is a limited education. Families can only have two books in the community
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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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