The DVD version of A Christmas Carol is better than the novel. The DVD shows more detail and effects. The story does not add effects or music and just does not have the effect the movie does. People get to see what the characters actually look like in person instead of having to imagine them. This is why the DVD is better. The movie and the novel are alike in some ways. They both start out saying the same thing. The first two spirits come at the same time in the movie as in the story. All the spirits
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Union and China. Currently many countries including China‚ Laos‚ North Korea‚ Vietnam‚ and Cuba are communist countries. The Giver is a movie released in 2014 directed by Phillip Noyce. The main character‚ a man named Jonas‚ lives in a seemingly idyllic world of conformity and contentment. When he soon discovers the dangerous truths of his community’s secret past. The Giver shows the negative impacts that communism has and it shows this through population control‚ control with rationing‚ and education
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Honest‚ or a liar? Do you always have to tell the truth? In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ it is evident that you aren’t always obligated to speak of the truth. This book mainly speaks of a eutopic universe where everyone must obey the rules‚ Chief Elder assigns everyone a job‚ and those who disobey the law are sentenced to death via lethal injection. All the populace is equal‚ except for 12-year-old Jonas. At the ceremony of Twelve‚ the community’s 12-year-olds eagerly accepted their predetermined life
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Bread Givers The book‚ Bread Givers is a novel written by Anzia Yezierska following the lives of woman who have to go through struggle because of new tradition verses old tradition. In the book I found that there are several themes within the book Bread Givers. Woman Rights‚ being one of them‚ seem to be an issue throughout the book. This book revolves around the lives of woman in a household on Hester Street in New York City. In the 1920’s times were not easiest for immigrants. In this book
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Have you ever wondered how much characters can be alike even if they are from different novels? In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry‚ a very smart and intelligent 12 year old boy named Jonas‚ gets a very high ranking job as the Receiver of Memory. Also‚ in “The Batboy” by Mike Lupica‚ a 14 year old boy gets the job everyone young boy could wish for‚ being a batboy for the Detroit Tigers. Jonas from “The Giver” and Brian from “The Batboy” have many similarities and differences. These young men have a lot in
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Why is it always assumed that the community in The Giver is imaginary? A form of it exists in real life. Jonas‚ a seemingly ordinary boy living with his parents and sister‚ finds out that the community where he lives is not at all what it looks like‚ leading him to take an extraordinary journey. Due to the existence of all-controlling governments‚ the real world is not completely removed from the dystopian worlds of The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four. People living under a Marxist-Leninist
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about the giver. Nancy put both Jonas and Gabe into school. Nancy was treating them like her own kids but maybe that’s because she never had any. In Nancy’s community they got to pick their jobs and kids didn’t even have jobs yet. Jonas and Gabe were really happy. A year went by‚ Jonas and Gabe were happier than ever. Jonas still misses the giver and dreams about him everyday. Finally one night it was Christmas eve Jonas had a dream about the giver but it was different this time. The giver was by green
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In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ there are many different symbols and come to together to help form the theme. Symbolism and themes are difficult to infer in a text‚ but understanding these literary elements makes the book more interesting and entertaining for the reader. Symbolism is defined using a concrete word‚ object‚ color‚ picture‚ name and so forth to strand for a name‚ abstract idea‚ image‚ or event. For example a heart could stand for love and an American flag as freedom or patriotism
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The novel The Giver is about a boy named Jonas that is selected to be the receiver. He goes through a lot of hard journeys. He has a little “Brother” named Gabriel. Gabriel is on the verge of being released to elsewhere. Jonas’ plan is to find elsewhere and save Gabriel from release. The Giver is a pessimistic novel. The Giver is a pessimistic novel because of the scary moments that happen to Jonas making it seem like something bad is going to happen to him. The giver is making the reader feel like
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society of The Giver. There is no color in their society. There is also no weather and no landscape. The elders want everything to be the same so the world is plain. In The Giver‚ color does not exist in their world. The elders have gotten rid of it. When the Giver shows Jonas color he says‚ “You’re beginning to see the color red.” Jonas doesn’t know what the color red is. This means that jonas has never heard of colors‚ which means that colors don’t exist! The Giver tells him “at
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