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The Giver By Lois Lowry
Tornike Obolashvili
English F Block
Manana Mgeladze
26/02/2014
Essay It is an uninteresting book teacher! It was phrase which I told, when I started reading of The Giver, but after a few chapters I understood, that it was good and ideally book with deep thought.
The Author of this book is Lois Lowry. The main character is Jonas 12 years old boy, who lives in community in where everything is calculated and there are no feelings. People move with bicycle and every year they celebrate their birthday with teaching something new and getting something new mission. On 12s birthday children get the jobs, government chooses profession for them. Children don’t have choice, they can’t choose their own profession. In this community people have 3 chances of breaking rule. If they break rules more than 3 times, they get released which means that they died. People drink pills everyday, which is for hiding the emotions and feelings. The main idea which The Author
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1. Life without feelings and emotions is life wasted. If you don’t love someone and don’t feel anything, life is less interesting and there are no reasons for living on the earth. When you love someone you can make everything for her/him and life isn’t wasted, because you care about someone.
2. We can see in this book, that government uses people very easily and they don’t listen to the man (the giver) who is very wisdom person. When people don’t know about love and about friendship they will be very easily ruled, because they don’t have feelings and they won’t stay together and they won’t go against government there are no reasons for it, because government makes every bad things hidely.
3. In one of the chapters of this book there is a moment when The Giver gives Jonas a memory of the new year where there are grandparents and family members. Jonas didn’t understand what ceremony it is, because he didn’t know what love is, what snow is and what grandparents

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