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    like The Giver‚ and the one of the children was a boy and the other a girl. It started to come back to him. He remembered the Giver telling him about a beautiful woman named Rosemary‚ and how she released herself because of the pain she was being put

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    Assignment Sheet: The Giver Persuasive Essay Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver describes a society in search of perfection‚ which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling‚ among other things‚ would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings‚ the creators were able to implement Sameness‚ which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

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    gone as well. In his opinion he had saved Gabe from being released. Even though Gabe wouldn’t have known what was going on‚ Jonas did‚ and it was to much for him to bear. He wondered if there was a new Receiver back in the old community. Was the Giver still alive? As these thoughts scrambled through Jonas’s head‚ Gabe was in the woods trying to find even a scrap of food for them to eat. Food was scarce and they

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    The Giver placed his hands on Jonas’s bare back‚ and suddenly Jonas was on a hard ground. He was laying down with a bunch of small‚ tiny rocks digging into his skin. Jonas stood up and wiped the rocks from his skin. From the distance he can see these boats. They are not like the boat he was on when The Giver gave him the memory of the sea. These boats were much bigger. “Ships”. They are sitting on the water. Peacefully flowing with the current of the moving‚ clear‚ beautiful water. Jonas has never

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    “SAMENESS” IN THE GIVER What would it feel like living in a world which everyone is same and the life is monotone?In “The Giver”‚written by Lois Lowry‚there’s a community based on perfection and the citizens who have strict and ethic rules to prevent their community from becoming unethical and unequal.Lowry conveyed her ideas both with in advantages and disadvantages‚and the diversity which citizens in the community have lost. To begin with‚the main advantage which citizens have is the relief

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    I will be giving my interpretation of the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. This book is set in a society that at first seems to be a utopian society but the further you read on it gradually appears to be more and more dystopian. So this book is about a boy named Jonas going through his twelfth year of his life. Jonas is soon selected to be the “Receiver of Memory” he is to be given the past memories of the time before sameness‚ or before the society became a utopia. As the story progresses Jonas soon

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry illuminates the theme that individuality is important considering how different people have various beliefs that can advance society. If only a few people control over an entire community‚ it will remain stagnant with little to no change. The Committee of Elders made decisions and not the people themselves. For example‚ everyone in the community passively accepted all the rules‚ never questioning the reasons behind them. Jonas’s father was confronted with the task of releasing

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    What do "the stirrings" in The Giver represent in our community and what is the reason for a pill needing to be taken to stop them? The giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is a book set in a dystopian future where there are communities and a strict set of rules. Throughout the story‚ the main protagonist Jonas‚ has to deal with his newly given job as the receiver of memory. By being given this job‚ Jonas is given memories by the pervious receiver of member‚ who is now the giver. Through each memory‚ Jonas comes

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    Finally‚ the long-awaited movie adaptation of the Giver is here. However‚ no movie adaptation stays completely true to its source material‚ and the Giver is no different. The Giver movie sustained some massive changes to its characters and plot‚ not all of which were good. The movie changed the characters’ ages. In the movie‚ the characters were aged to the average dystopian-fiction age. While Lily only aged a year‚ Jonas and his friends aged a lot more‚ jumping from twelve to eighteen. This

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    emotional aspect of life from them. Furthermore‚ to the people‚ truth is simply doing what they’re told by going to their Selection when they’re twelve‚ taking injections every day‚ etc. However‚ when Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver‚ successor to the Giver‚ his visions of truth change

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