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    or past.” (Lois Lowry‚ The Giver). Utopia sounds great being a perfect society with no problems existing. They might seem possible looking at many utopian experiments and how successful some are. A utopia is an imagined place that has a perfect society where there are no problems and nothing is new. Since utopias are perfect there are nothing wrong that can happen in them‚ nothing new can happen‚ exciting‚ dangerous‚ everything is the same with no difference. In The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the community

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    to choos what they wanna be when they become an adult. People are destined to change overtime.In this essay you will see what I mean It is about a boy from the book the give who changed overtime. In the book the giver they have this young boy named Jonas in this book everyone and everythingis the same everything is chosen for them..He is a good boy at the beggining of the story doing his community hours.They have to do a certain amount of community hour to get their

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    Desirable Living “You could not have strength without weakness‚ you could not have light without dark‚ you could not have love without loss” (Picoult). This quote perfectly describes Jonas’s society in The Giver (Lowry). Jonas has the perfect community without poverty and war‚ but it comes with a price. He is the only one who can experience real emotions and pain. Another imperfect society is the village from the video‚ “Christmas Kindness”. Oprah Winfrey says that one third of Southern Africa is

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    of fairy tales. And if I’ve learned anything through that river of memories‚ it is that we can’t live in a walled world‚ in an ‘only us‚ only now’ world where we are all the same and feel safe. We would have to sacrifice too much.” In her novel The Giver there is a common message of sameness. It is in how people in the community dressed. It is how they looked. Their clothing and haircuts were always the same. Little girls wore ribbons and braids in their hair. It is also how they acted‚ and how they

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    The Giver Epilogue Jonas and Gabe just kept going faster and faster. He was going so fast that he felt that he could not breathe. Strangely‚ Gabe started coughing. It wasn’t long till Gabe’s cough started to sound like a choke. Jonas could feel the heartbeat of the young child beating abnormally fast. Thump Thump Jonas soothingly patted Gabe’s back to try and help him out. But the heartbeat would only go even faster. Although‚ this time Jonas could actually hear the expeditious heartbeat. Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump

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    memory. Learning the secret history of humanity in the abyss of clouds‚ on the edge of a city that resembles Washington with its Masonic constructions carried to the extreme of technological "harmony‚" The Giver shows the use of totalitarian control of the society on the suppressed individuals. The Giver is all about the great public relations ideologues‚ where ideas have surreptitiously become part of American neoliberal politics. the people must be protected from their own decisions‚ since it is by

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    The Giver placed his hands on Jonas’ back‚ and decided to transmit the memory of summer. Jonas awoke in a foreign place far from the small room in the Annexe‚ he was in a place where there was constant sunlight and the sound of laughter surrounded him. There was a place where everyone seemed to be which was a combination of sand and salty water‚ beach he thought. Aside from the constant laughter of children and adults‚ Jonas could see several colors‚ the light blue of the sea that grows darker as

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    The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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    Fictional worlds are constructed by writers to sometimes narrate important realities about being human. Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” is a curious mixture of utopian and dystopian world that explores the cost of fictionalised harmony. The Giver takes place in an unknown time “after the ruin” from which is emerged a society strictly controlled. The ideas of rules and control‚ sameness and memory is depicted in the opening chapters. Whilst we live in a world where rules exist and we understand their role

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    stories have a purpose. They want to tell you something more than just entertaining you. These tails almost always contain themes. These themes are ideas‚ thought‚ lessons‚ things that get you thinking about the meaning of what you are reading. In The Giver by Lois Lowry you can find many themes including memory and the past‚ rules and order‚ communication‚ isolation‚ and what I believe is the most important‚ choice. Now there are many more themes but I want to talk about choice. In this story Jonas

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    Example Literary Essay: The Giver by Lois Lowry Example Introduction Paragraph: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes‚ but in having new eyes.” This quote by Marcel Proust speaks of discovering what‟s right in front of you by seeing it differently‚ with “new eyes.” The main character‚ Jonas‚ in Lois Lowry‟s The Giver goes through a similar experience when he discovers his “Capacity to See Beyond.” Jonas begins to see his Community differently‚ with an awareness or

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