Sun light shown brightly through the blinds covering the window‚ I let my eyes flutter to clear my vision before I realized where I was. Rylee was peacefully asleep in my arms‚ she looked so happy and calm but I knew what was about to happen. I had to leave‚ never come back and never see her face again. I felt my eyes tear up‚ the only reason last night happened was because we knew that I was leaving and we wouldn’t ever have that opportunity again. I moved slowly away from her and off the couch
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As she stood there‚ light in her face‚ she squirmed a bit under the pressure. She heard only a few gruff voices from the crowd‚ the men only offering measly bids. She knew her father had been wrong about the bids he would receive. Nobody wanted a poor man’s daughter. Not in such a society that was so fixated on social status. She knew her breeding was horrendous for those who cared. When she was younger it never mattered‚ not even to her parents. When her mother was alive‚ her father wasn’t a drunkard
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"Mrs. Smith‚ come to the front desk please." rambled the intercom around her. Slumped over herself‚ head in hands‚ stale cup of coffee at her feet. Red‚ tired eyes. Evidence of the stream of tears that had become her. Quickly she jumps to her feet and hastens to the front desk. Desperate to hear news of her husband. Mr. Smith hadn’t felt well for months now. A midnight call for an ambulance and now at the hospital. She waits. Praying. Crying out to God to not take her husband and even better yet
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Teo didn’t know if it was his illness or the prospect of skipping class that made nausea bubble in his stomach. Slipping way unnoticed was unbearably easy‚ and making his way back to the orphanage was even easier. His thoughts raged against each other‚ pitting his need to rest against his chance of a scholarship and a future as a surgeon. It should’ve been an easy decision‚ and yet Teo made the wrong choice. Teo snuck in through the back door of the orphanage‚ not wanting to risk alerting those who
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One day before the system was released… An individual shot through what appeared to be a glowing blue circle. Woosh! A burst of air carried the shadow. Crashing downwards at a frighteningly quick pace. Passing one grove of trees again and again the figure fell stumbling beyond the likes of branches and leaves. Flowing through them as if it were water‚ if water were sharp and pointy. It slowed his rate of descent. The figure lightly gritted his teeth as he was thrown to the base of the forest
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Although there are many great quotes in different books‚that shows different themes‚ The Giver has some of the most memorable. Three quotes that are the most significant in the novel demonstrate the themes of wisdom‚pain and hope In the Giver‚ the theme of wisdom is shown through this quote‚” The worst part of holding a memory is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (p.154).The meaning of this quote is that memories need to be shared. For example‚ by sharing memories
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Have you ever wrote a compare and contrast essay or ever read a compare and contrast essay? Well if not in this essay you will you’ll be reading about how The Truman show and The Giver are similar and different and also what the stories are like and a little about characters The Giver is about to have a perfect community and a perfect world. They all have to wear the same thing and look they all can’t be different so they all see black and white cause they can’t see color casue they all look different
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gets the same things and are assigned jobs. Every year there is a Ceremony of Twelve where the new twelve year olds receive their jobs. Jonas is assigned the rare job of receiver of memory and his whole life starts to change - he has to work with the Giver‚ the old receiver of the community’s memories. While receiving the memories of the community he discovers the dangerous and secret truths of the community’s secret past. Learning off of the memories he inherited‚ Jonas realizes that he must leave the
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people of these societies are severely oppressed because of how the government is in control. Dystopian literature shows how the government is in control of the people‚ while the citizens appear to be equal. This paper will include examples from "The Giver”‚ “The Hunger Games”‚ and “The Lottery”. There are a lot of examples of severe oppression in literature. In “The Hunger Games” district 12‚ along with each of the other districts‚ is very oppressed by the controlling government. They are
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could make their own decisions and had access to more information. Jonas decides that what the community is doing to the people is wrong and inhumane‚ and that essentially the community is taking away their individuality Lois Lowry in the book‚ The Giver‚ used the point of view Jonas to demonstrate that a perfect world‚ where everyone is
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