Union and China. Currently many countries including China‚ Laos‚ North Korea‚ Vietnam‚ and Cuba are communist countries. The Giver is a movie released in 2014 directed by Phillip Noyce. The main character‚ a man named Jonas‚ lives in a seemingly idyllic world of conformity and contentment. When he soon discovers the dangerous truths of his community’s secret past. The Giver shows the negative impacts that communism has and it shows this through population control‚ control with rationing‚ and education
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should’ve changed things‚ but they didn’t and we are all upset about that. Now please go out and see your friends find out what these feelings are and I will make sure the Chief elder does not interfere.” There was a couple nodding of heads and the Giver went on‚ “Please try to make the best of this situation and find out what feelings not stirrings feelings that you may have. Find out if you do love your spouse‚ find out if you like religion or not‚ find out if you are happy with your life and you
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the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ there are many different symbols and come to together to help form the theme. Symbolism and themes are difficult to infer in a text‚ but understanding these literary elements makes the book more interesting and entertaining for the reader. Symbolism is defined using a concrete word‚ object‚ color‚ picture‚ name and so forth to strand for a name‚ abstract idea‚ image‚ or event. For example a heart could stand for love and an American flag as freedom or patriotism
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It is difficult for us to imagine a world without color‚ personal freedoms‚ and love‚ but in this book‚ the society is exactly this. Being able to make your own choices is really important‚ most of us don’t realize it right now but it’s important to appreciate freedom. In the Giver‚ what may seem like a perfect society is actually a dystopia is because theres no individuality‚ you are assigned a family‚ and jobs were assigned as well. To begin with‚ individuality didn’t even exist in this community
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There are many strange things in The Giver. The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ has many good traits‚but even more bad ones. This book is a dystopia. A dystopia means world that looks perfect but is really not; utopia means a perfect world. The community is a dystopia because of lack of knowledge‚ sameness‚ and complete control. The Giver takes place in sameness. In sameness they have a lack of knowledge. The receiver of memory only knows the past.Each of the families have only two books. Every
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The main theme shown in The Giver is the idea that good cannot exist without evil‚ and evil cannot exist without good‚ thus making reaching a perfect society impossible. It does not matter how amazing an experience is‚ unless you have something bad to compare it with you can never taste the true meaning of that moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly‚ they also do not feel grief because they have never
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Stuffed toys‚ hair ribbons‚ and beginning school. What do those things have in common? They all represent childhood and getting older. In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry‚ the theme is growing up. There are three main symbols that prove that the theme is growing up. The symbols are the ceremony‚ the children getting their careers‚ and the house of the old. First‚ the ceremony where the children rise in rank. This ceremony is one of the most important in the entire community‚ as Father said “December brings
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Memories need to be shared”(The Giver pg.86). In the Giver‚ when the new receiver of memory‚ Jonas saw it that one person should not suffer like this and would be better if everyone would have a little of the memories. He saw from the memories that the community took away also took a lot of common great living from the people and made everything dull and boring from what it was before.
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In the book the giver do not think that Jonas and Gabriel die? What do you think. I think that they do die because in the book in the book it says " He was aware of certainty and joy that below‚ ahead‚ they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting too for the baby". So that tells me that Jonas and Gabriel are still alive. It also said that they were freezing and that jonas grew weak and could not give memories. So that also tells me that they are dieing. The second option is a bit more
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In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the protagonist lives in a futuristic utopian society. Jonas is selected to be the community’s Receiver of Memory‚ the only person who knows of the memories from the past. Jonas thinks nothing of life before becoming Receiver‚ like the rest of his community. But‚ when he receives memories‚ he finds the deeper meaning to life. Lowry’s characterization of Jonas reveals the importance of valuing life through her development of Release‚ the game of war‚ and saving
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