The Giver by Louis Lowry Chapter 1-2 1. What did the word "frightened" mean‚ according to Jonas? The word "frightened" meaning according to Jonas was a "deep‚ sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen." 2. About what were Jonas and the other children taught to be careful? Jonas and the other children were taught to be careful about language. 3. How did Jonas decide he felt? What was causing this feeling? Jonas felt apprehensive. The Ceremony of Twelve was causing
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English 93 9MWF May 15th 2013 Sameness does not mean perfectness The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopian society. Jonas lives in a seemingly perfect community in which there is little pain and little crime. People are polite. Everyone belongs to a supportive family. But this harmony comes at a price. There is also no choice‚ and real emotions are nonexistent. Life is dictated by strict rules. This story is set in a perfect
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When Jonas was doing his job as the receiver of memory‚ he started feeling different about the society he is living in and developed because of the society. Jonas was being transmitted a memory from The Giver and started to get feelings that he had never experienced in his life. He also started to develop a different image of the society he is living in.Jonas stated‚”Then‚ the first wave of pain. He gasped. It was as if a hatchet lay logged in his legs‚ slicing through each nerve with a hot blade”
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Stacey Garcia Ms. Smith Humanities 07 March 2013 The Giver The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry. A novel established in 1993. Jonas the main character who lives in the future; in a ruled community. The children in the community get assigned jobs when they become Twelve’s. Jonas was selected to become the receiver of memory. A most respectful role that anyone can have. The concept of the families in the Giver is different from the one in our society in many ways‚ for example controlled lives‚ sexuality
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The Giver was written by Lois Lowry in 1993. It tells about a utopian society in which every person is assigned their life’s purpose at different ceremonies that occur yearly. The society is very organized‚ and everything is very matter-of-fact and by the book. Every year there are ceremonies for the children growing each year‚ named the year they are turning. Each year new milestones are reached‚ and everyone looks forward to the Ceremonies‚ especially the Ceremony of Twelve. The Elders decide what
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Sake of a Symbol “Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.” - Alfred North Whitehead. To symbolize is to represent much like the Cowboy Ethics principle ‘Ride for the Brand’. A brand is a symbol used to mark an object in order to claim it as owned property by the entity the brand is specified to. The knowledge of symbolism has been my north star for what has seemed an infinite amount of time. To me representation and responsibility
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The Giver Euthanasia Euthanasia refers to the practice of s deliberated intervention undertaken to produce the termination of a very sick person’s life in order to relieve them from their suffering. Euthanasia can be categorized in voluntary euthanasia‚ non-voluntary euthanasia‚ involuntary euthanasia‚ active or passive euthanasia. The voluntary euthanasia takes place when a person wants die and says so and asks for the help of somebody or something else to die. Non-voluntary euthanasia refers
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ever been starving‚ would ever be starving.” (Lowry 89). The Community in The Giver is called a utopian society‚ what is a utopian society? Webster Dictionary says‚ “an imaginary place in which the government‚ laws‚ and social condition are perfect...” Even though they may be “perfect”‚ utopian societies never really work out‚ and usually people have to take risks in order to change the society. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas takes risks by‚ helping family members‚ doing what he thinks
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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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I would never do. “‘ Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?’” ( Lowry 120) This quote shows that people want colors‚ but to be in the perfect world meant that the ability to see colors is now gone. In The Giver‚ no one can see colors except for Jonas and The Giver. Color gives everyday simple objects their own detail. It classifies what that object is and what it looks like. If everything was colorless in the utopia‚ no
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