“I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.” -Captain Beefheart. In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry citizens are forced‚ without knowing‚ to live according to the Committee of Elders’ standards. They choose what the people do‚ say‚ wear‚ etc. This is truly unfair for the Committee of Elders to use sameness to completely control the community. This is shown in the lack of authentic relationships in the family unit‚ the concept of sameness‚ and the
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Freedom Paper When asked the question‚ “Am I free?”‚ there is a challenge to your brain as to what the true definition of “freedom” is. When looked up in a dictionary‚ 17 different definitions come up. The first definition is‚ “the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint”‚ while the last definition states‚ “the power to exercise choice and make decisions without constraint from within or without; autonomy; self-determination”. These two definitions
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“If everything’s the same‚ then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up and decide things.”(Jonas) “It’s the choosing that’s mordant‚ isn’t it?”(Giver). In the Newbery award winning novel‚ The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a future dystopian. In this society everything is the same and no one sees colors‚ feels pain‚ or make decisions for themselves. The idea of “sameness” is totally unfair. When you don’t get to have any choices‚ feelings‚ or personalities‚ it just takes the human out of humanity
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Imagine a world where people could not do certain things. These are all traits of a dystopian empire‚ which Jonas’s community represents. In The Giver the community is under constant surveillance‚ they can not say certain words‚ and everybody is the same. In the book The Giver the community is under constant surveillance. In the middle of the book it states that Jonas did something he was not supposed to do with the apple‚ so the speakers went off instantly. Knowing this‚ Jonas was under constant
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and begin to relate with one another and the class becomes a safe haven for the teens. They become like a family and realize they have more opportunities than just living beyond the age of eighteen. There are many themes portrayed in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ but the main two focus points are overcoming adversity and believing in yourself to succeed. The first and most important theme of the movie is that you shouldn’t judge or go against another group of people just for the color of their skin
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The Giver is a dystopian novel that plays out a world with no pain‚ suffering‚ and conflict‚ this world is meant to have total peace and harmony. Jonas is like any other eleven-year-old boy that lives in his community on the surface‚ until the day he receives his assignment. Jonas is intelligent and perceptive‚ sometimes even more than his peers. He enjoys experiencing and learning new things‚ enjoys the freedom of choice‚ enjoys connecting and learning about other people‚ and craves human contact
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If a person were to look up the definition of freedom in the dictionary‚ they would find‚ “being free; esp.‚ a) independence.” However‚ freedom has many meanings that differ from one another. One could say freedom is the ability to make choices in life that are beneficial to a person’s desires and have their own opinions about anything they want. It can be represented through actions and attitudes. For example‚ a person who is free can make their own decisions about anything they want. Being able
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Imagine a place where you have no freedom‚ no choice‚ and forced to be the same. This is a dystopian world. To me it’s also Jonas’s world. It has certain dystopian characteristics such as no right to choose‚ withholding information from the public‚ and the community is forced to be the same. The people in jonas’s community have no right to choose is a dystopian characteristic. For example in The Giver it states ‚” If everything’s the same‚ then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the
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Prompt: Write an expository essay that compares and contrasts life in and The Giver to our modern-day society. Do you ever just think how lucky we are to have feelings and being able to see the most simplest things like color or being able to wear whatever we want because we have freedom. Most people take the most simplest things like that for granted and they don’t even realize it. If you compare the different between “The Giver” and reality you would be surprised at what people actually miss with their
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Do you agree that Jonas community is a Dystopia? The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ was written in 1993 and inspired by her father who had lost all of his memory. She wondered what it would be like if there were no memories or feelings. The Giver is about a 12 year-old boy named Jonas who lives in a utopian society where everything is perfect. In the book Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. Once Jonas was chosen as the Receiver of Memory he started to wonder whether his community is a utopia “A
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