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    The Giver by Lois Lowry and the movie The Giver directed by Philip Noyce are based on a perfectly enclosed nirvana‚ taking place in a futuristic setting where choices are not yours. It is also thought as a Utopia‚ an endless party and everlasting harmony. However paradise‚ in this case‚ is not perfect‚ but who knows better? One similarity between the book and the movie is the main characters‚ Jonas‚ who was able to go to Elsewhere with his youthful companion‚ Gabriel. Another similarity was the

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    place where everything is the same. You have no differences‚ music ‚color or even love.This is the world of "The Giver." "The Giver" novel and movie have differences and similarities.They both have elements that show The Giver’s world. In the movie‚ the music gives it more depth and emotion then in the book‚ and also the landscape made it easier to visualize the community‚ and their sameness. For instance‚in both the movie and the book their are differences involving the element of music by the music

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    Someone watching you for over 30 years 24/7. A little bit obsessive. Sounds like they are making your entertainment. The Truman Show and The Giver are the same‚ but very different. Both are making life fake and having the same routine every single day life. They go for a loop every day. There are many similarities and differences in The Truman Show and The Giver. You’re scheduled to do the same thing over and over again with no memory of before you no stories no legends. You live in a place where

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    In this semester‚ we’ve read “The Lottery” and “Harrison Bergeron” from the textbook. They are two short stories; “The Lottery” was written by Shirley Jackson‚ and “Harrison Bergeron” was written by Kurt Vonnegut. This essay is to compare the similarities and differences between them. The first similarity is that both of these dystopian stories demonstrate how people force themselves in a tradition that they have been told to follow even if they have an option to seek for change‚ and to explore

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    The Giver The similarities between the book and movie‚ The Giver‚ is that for their transportation they used bikes because they didn’t want anyone getting hurt or into crashes. Not to mention at one point Gabriel spent some of his nights at Jonas’s house. Also somewhere around the end of the book the Giver mentioned that his daughter is Rosemary. The last similarity I found was in the end when Jonas ran away from the community he brought Gabriel with him The difference between the book and the

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    Carmen Nonon Ms. Judith King English 111 8 April 2009 The Similarities and Differences Between “The Lottery” and “Dead Man’s Path” In the two short stories ”The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe‚ tradition plays a part. In “The Lottery”‚ the villagers gather together once a year and meet in the square for a drawing to determine that year’s sacrifice. In “Dead Men’s Path” the story is about a pathway to a burial site that passes through the school grounds

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    “The Lottery” and “Charles” are both short stories written by Shirley Jackson. The author linked her two pieces of writing together with many similarities‚ which can be seen throughout the stories. However‚ there are also differences distinguish them from one another. To begin with‚ these resemblances mark the author’s writing style. Both these fictional stories contain foreshadowing. “The Lottery” gives an example of this when the narrator mentions the children stacking rocks in the beginning

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    and contrast of “The Lottery” & “The Necklace” In Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" the objects in the story all foreshadow the story’s dark undertone. But in Guy De Mauppasant’s "The Necklace‚" Mathilde’s life is defined in the moment after the ball‚ when she looks in the mirror and discovers the loss of the necklace. These stories are similar and different in many ways. There are many comparisons between “The Lottery” and “The Necklace”. First‚ In “The Lottery” when Tessi saw the

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    the giver.In the wrould the giver is differnt and the same in many ways.Both of our or the same and differnt in many ways. In the Giver they could not see color. The only colors that they can see is black and white because that the one ones they every seen. The colors are like an old tv show in black and white. We have bight colors that we can see. Everything that I see have some type of color not just black and white. Birthday are different every but in the giver and on earth are different

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    school shootings. We need a not always question what is going on and why so we don’t turn into a world completely like The Giver. However‚ we are somewhat like their world and still different from their world and that is a good thing. Our society and the society in The Giver have many similarities and differences in having children. For example‚ page 8 paragraph 6 of The Giver states “Two children - one male‚ one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.” Also on page

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