Can Technology Lead to Utopia? My mother would rather snapchat than answer my calls; therefore from the perspective of an 18 year old girl with no sense of social media‚ the idea that technology is the driving force of the future baffles me. Of course‚ that doesn’t only refer to social media. Within the past few decades‚ we’ve seen huge booms in technology throughout all aspects of life‚ but is there a limit to how far that can take us? From smartphones to lasers and everything in-between
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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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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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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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In The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the author uses sensuous qualities such as sight and sound‚ to vaguely describe the setting the characters live in. The text states‚ “He laughed silently to himself‚ picturing his sister droning on in the self important voice that all the speakers seemed to develop‚ saying things like ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES.” Speakers and announcements greatly affect the setting because they regulate the
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revolt and institute the system of Animalism‚ then they are promised a better life if they build the windmill and‚ if all else fails‚ the raven promises a better afterlife on ‘Sugarcandy Mountain’. However‚ the animals ultimately never achieve their utopia because of the avaricious and power-hungry nature of Napoleon and his pig cronies. Whether it is the ambitious and power hungry Napoleon and his cronies‚ the animals’ blind loyalty and ignorance to Napoleon’s ulterior motives or the resigned apathy
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Feminine identity in the Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers The novel‚ Bread Givers‚ by Anzia Yezierska explores the life of the Smolinsky family living in the poor conditions of the lower east side in New York City. The novel’s narrator and main protagonist‚ Sara‚ struggles to find her identity as an independent woman throughout the novel. Sara’s struggle illuminates the transition of women from being undervalued to independent and self-fulfilling individuals. Sara’s struggle is characterized by her
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