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    English: Discuss how Lois Lowry creates different worlds in texts that comment on our own world in the novel‚ The Giver. | The Giver Essay | Cameron MacKay14/11/2010 | | Lois Lowry’s highly acclaimed children’s novel The Giver‚ constantly refers to important themes in the storyline to portray messages of morality to the reader. These are conveyed through themes in the book. Some of these themes such as the expression of Individuality‚ the issue of Euthanasia‚ and the Customs and Rules

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    In the Novel The Giver‚ the author‚ Lois Lowry‚ presents a young boy named Jonas living in a world that is full of conformity and no choices allowed. In the community which Jonas lives‚ everyone is assigned a job and is disciplined when they do something wrong. Along the way Jonas learns he has a special type of Job as the Receiver of memories and he has special advantages he learns and wants to give people in the community to have choices. Lowry argues that over conformity is detrimental and the

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    In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas lives in an imperfect world. His community is a dystopia. According to the text‚ utopias and dystopias is a term used to describe a utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Jonas’ community is a dystopia because of the lack of knowledge‚ sameness‚ and complete control. Jonas’ community has a lack of knowledge. The Receiver of Memory only knows the past. Families can only have 2 books‚ while The Giver and the Receiver of Memory have a whole library

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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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    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 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 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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    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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    Duncan is depicted as Shakespeare’s idea of a fair king that others should admire. Duncan speaks to all people with respect‚ when the bloodied captain brings news to Duncan in act 1 Duncan greets him by calling him a “valiant cousin” and “worthy gentleman”. As well as showing respect to his subject he also held in utmost respect‚ as he is frequently called great king and chants of god save the king are also frequent throughout act 1 scene 3. Even after his death people still speak highly of Duncan

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