The Community that Lois Lowry creates in The Giver appears to be a utopia‚ but is in fact a dystopia. To get rid of the extremes‚ such as pain and hunger‚ you have to get rid of things like true friendship and happiness. Jonas is constructed to convey ideas about society by his speech‚ thoughts‚ actions‚ appearance‚ interaction with others and his name. We first see this when his sister‚ Lily says to him‚ “He has funny eyes just like you Jonas!” Most people in the community have dark eyes but
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From what I understand about totalitarian‚ it’s a government centered state‚ which North Korea is a totalitarian state where the government doesn’t tolerate any public deviation from the official line. Simply mishandling a portrait of leader Kim Jong Il is considered a crime. As I watched an online video I understood that it was also amazing to see footage of daily life in Korea‚ the absolute most impenetrable country in the world for outsiders and media. No one has ever been able to film daily North
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In the book The Giver‚ there are all these different rules of the community to prevent people from doing the wrong or bad things‚ but in all the rules‚ there are always positive ones and negative ones. So comparing to the real world and to the community‚ what rules from the community should we learn from? According to the book‚ Pilots cannot fly over the community‚‚ Each person in a family must share his/her dreams in the morning‚ and in the evening‚ his/her feelings of the day‚ There can only
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“This place is just astonishing. Can we please settle here?” “It is a necessity to‚” I said‚ “We can’t go back to our former community. We chose to leave and now we can’t change our minds‚” I sobbed a little at the end. I would miss my family‚ the Giver‚ and everyone else. I knew I was doing this for a
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Lillian Jean and her dad to walk in the streets‚ but later in the story beat her up. By doing these things‚ both Jonas and Cassie showed perseverance and courage by taking a painful memory to standing up for what you think is right! In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas (a 12 year old boy) becomes the Receiver of Memories through having these 5 qualities. The first qualities are intelligence‚ integrity‚ and courage. The
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The Giver is a highly influential book written bu Lois Lowry. It is science fiction‚ with a theme of the past and connection. In a world where there are no feelings‚ no choice and no pain‚ the main character Jonas who is twelve struggles to find his place in the small community. He was "assigned" the job as Receiver of Memory. (yes‚ jobs were chosen) Unaware of what dark secrets lie beneath his perfect utopia of a world‚ he is suddenly plunged into the past‚ exposed to all the memories‚ back and
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Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia‚ but‚ in reality‚ it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community‚ there is no poverty‚ starvation‚ unemployment‚ lack of housing‚ or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However‚ as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms
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such as queuing to buy bananas in socialist-style fruit stands‚ which re-invoke how time was "captured" by the socialist state and the resulting struggles to acquire basic consumer goods (Verdery‚ 1996) . In a similar vein‚ Opona plans to create a Totalitarian Simulator‚ a "large-scale interactive
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predictable society‚ Jonas’s community has rejected the truly utopian possibilities of a society where people are free to move society forward. The result is a dystopia of conformity. A series of conversations between Jonas and The Giver shows that the totalitarian rationale for restricting each person’s choice of clothing‚ job‚ spouse‚ and children results from the fear of making wrong choices. Yet‚ as Jonas realizes after he escapes from the community‚ he would rather be able to choose his
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THE DREAM STATE presents with a very intriguing futuristic totalitarian society. It offers a visionary and cautionary new world that is controlled by a mysterious “great leader.” The script does a nice job of crafting what this divergent world looks like and how it’s run. The “great leader” completely controls society and the people within the border. This world seems to lie to the populace about war and the need for protection and rules. It’s a very oppression society. While these types of worlds
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