The Giver Short Answer by: William Nguyen (Core 2 Language Arts) While there are many themes that are present in "The Giver" and "Harrison Bergeron"‚ one theme stands out. That theme is‚ memories are important and if they’re lost‚ they can cause pain. In "The Giver"‚ by Lois Lowry‚ there are moments when important memories cause pain. When Jonas is talking to The Giver about [The Giver’s] daughter Rosemary‚ Jonas asks the Giver what happened when Rosemary was released. The Giver responds‚ "’The
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Hi I’m Angela Lacy‚ I was born and raised in the Brainerd Lakes Area. I’ve been a part of one community my entire life. I have grown up with the same people my whole life but have had many chances to travel all around the United States and to a couple different countries‚ so I have experienced many other cultures and ways of life. I grew up with very loving parents who have always been married. I have two younger brothers one in high school as a freshman and one in middle school as a sixth grader
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Throughout the entire short story‚ it has a lot of key underlining themes that help the reader understand who they are and what type of society they live in. Some of those major themes in the story consist of the danger of blindly following tradition‚ the randomness of persecution‚ brutality/savagery‚ the idea of a scapegoat. Each of these in there own way help shape the story into the incredibly marvelous piece it is. For the theme of blindly following tradition the story starts out with everyone
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Why do authors use the vehicle of theme to connect to readers? Throughout the book Grendel‚ John Gardner uses theme to emphasize a connection of the story to the reader. Theme is used because in a story like Grendel with “heroes” and “monsters” hope is used to further the interest of the reader. Themes can be viewed through different perspectives‚ but in Grendel the author uses the themes of fate and free will; also language to express human qualities to connect “monsters” to humans in modern life
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The themes of Medea‚ to me‚ were the most prevalent literary object in the play. They can describe almost every emotion and action of the main pro‚ and antagonists. The major themes of Medea are intelligence‚ manipulation‚ and ferventness. Her intelligence leads to the unnecessary death of her two children‚ her manipulative ways result in the unnecessary death of a king‚ and her ferventness is the main cause of distress for every single character involved in the tragedy. The tragedy of Medea is without
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Angela’s Ashes Pre-Reading Activity Before beginning Angela’s Ashes‚ answer the following questions in short answer format. (5 sentence minimum per answer‚ though you’re welcome to go into much more detail if you’d like) Do you believe in God? Do you belong to a religion? If yes‚ tell me a little about why you pray/go to church/youth group. Yes I believe in god. Yes my religion is Christian/Christianity and i also attend to church because that is like a religious center that I can get a
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Angela Carter’s A Souvenir of Japan tells the story of a young Caucasian woman temporarily living in Japan. This woman narrates her experiences and observations of Japanese culture‚ and portrays the low placement of women in Japanese society. Much of the language Carter uses to describe the narrator’s Japanese lover is magical and linked to fairy tales. The narrator muses over her relationship and portrays her lover as a mysterious‚ almost unreal creature‚ using words such as “pixy” and “goblin”
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looking at how Puritanism caused such havoc and destruction . Two themes that obviously dealt with the outrageous destruction and the attitudes of those people would be the philosophical theme of examined their inner lives closely looking for signs of grace or of being damned and the religious theme of which are certain that most of of humanity would be damned for all eternity. Miller had successfully used the philosophical theme of examined their inner lives closely looking for signs of grace
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In the young adult fiction story entitled Outsiders written by S.E Hinton is an outstanding book that focuses on many themes that eventually become extremely meaningful towards the end of the book‚ and one of those themes are that friends are like family. The reason I say this because in the book‚ a mob of friends stick with each other through thick and thin‚ and what’s significant about this gang is no matter what the situation may be‚ the support and care each one gives is exactly like if they
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was flourishing. From Fitzgerald’s writing the true picture of America in the 1920’s‚ which was a time when the government was corrupt‚ prohibition was affecting the economy. America was really just a dark place where people only saw the good that they wanted to see and did not want to believe the truth that America was not that great. The great Gatsby reveals that the American dream is a dark place that is hidden by only the good that people wanted to see by using the valley of ashes‚ and the relationship
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