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    The Giver Analysis

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    The main theme shown in The Giver is the idea that good cannot exist without evil‚ and evil cannot exist without good‚ thus making reaching a perfect society impossible. It does not matter how amazing an experience is‚ unless you have something bad to compare it with you can never taste the true meaning of that moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly‚ they also do not feel grief because they have never

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    Themes In The Giver

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    Jonas has lived in a "perfect" community all his life‚ but The Giver finally shows him what he’s been missing all his life. The main character‚ Jonas‚ in The Giver discovers his “Capacity to See Beyond.” Jonas begins to see his Community differently‚ with mindfulness that most people in the Community havent known of. Mindfulness‚ is one of main themes in The Giver. Although the book begins with what seems to be a utopia‚ it turns out that the people in the Community are living shallow and superficial

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    The Giver Continuation

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    The Giver Continuation We read The Giver in Literature class. The book left us on a cliff hanger. The ending left off with Jonas and Gabe at a house in the middle of nowhere. The community was also left alone with good and bad memories. As Jonas and Gabe sled down a hill and arrived at a house‚ they heard music. Both decided to go in. They found out that there was a family‚ and they were celebrating Christmas. The family was confused at first but decided they wanted to take both Gabe and

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    The Giver Sameness

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    In 1994‚ the John Newberry Medal was awarded to Lois Lowry’s book‚ "The Giver". The book was awarded this medal not only because its movie adaptation was remarkable‚ the book itself was just as capturing. It takes you right into a ’utopian’‚ lifeless community. The book’s mentor helps the main character understand that not feeling anything is not normal. In “The Giver”‚ Lowry uses Jonas and The Giver to demonstrate that it is not cooperation‚ order‚ and Sameness that makes us human‚ but memories

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    The Giver Memories

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    Memories are forever.” This quote means that the memories will never be lost and if he leaves the community that the memories will all go back to the people This is significant because the people haven’t had the memories for many generations. This quote pertains to the story because it shows how important and useful the memories are because they will never go away or end with one person. In the end of “The Giver” I believe that Jonas and Gabriel died because why is there a random sled at the top of the

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    In the story The Giver it talks about how the Giver’s memories are transferred to Jonas which begins to make him see things in a new light. According research‚ “the transference of memory is the point at which Lowry’s novel moves from science fiction into fantasy (53)‚ and in fact‚ almost nothing related to memory in The Giver can be explained scientifically‚ from the Giver’s loss of a memory once he has given it to Jonas

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    Diversity In The Giver

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    the continent.” this illustrates the diversity that our world has. Living in a perfect community would not be ideal there would be sameness. communities have no ways of spreading culture. Imagine a place where there is no color‚ no choice; a place where individuality and freedom have been traded for sameness and security. Lois Lowry has created such a place in the novel The Giver. First‚the community‚ In The Giver‚ is set in the future and is supposed to be a kind of utopia where everyone obeys the

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    Theme Of The Giver

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    1. Importance of Memory: The most important theme in The Giver is the importance of memory. In the past the community decided to get rid of all the pain in their lives. By doing this they had do give up all their memories and experiences. This allowed them to forget all of the pain and suffering that the human race had experienced which will prevent the community from wanting to be part of activities and relationships because of the conflict and suffering that comes with it. However‚ even in the

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    Themes in The Giver

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    Themes of The Giver Broadly‚ the book The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry‚ is about how a boy name Jonas‚ born in the perfect utopia where there are no freedom and colour‚ people there promotes sameness. Until Jonas founds out that there are more then this community when he got his unique job assigned at the age of 12. Being a receiver of memory let him know that the real world is beautiful and colourful; there are rights for every human being. Jonas felt unfair and hope to escape from this tragedy

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    The Giver Is A Dystopian

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    The Giver is an example of dystopian literature‚ because they don’t allow people to make their own choices. Differences were hated so much that they made them only see black and white. The elders don’t know anything about the real world like war or starvation. The elders control the people of the civilizations food rations. The elders live in a community where when you get too old‚ or if you don’t comfort yourself as an infant‚ or if you’re the smaller of twins‚ or if you want to leave then you are

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