The Giver Argument Essay The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas who receives a painful job. He received the Receiver of Memory‚ which is one of the most honorable jobs in the community. Jonas receives memories from the past that are very painful for him to handle. With a small 2 year old named Gabriel‚ he decides to travel through the cold and snowy hills. At the end of the book‚ Jonas and Gabriel both survive the harsh weather and find themselves at a town in Elsewhere
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Study Questions 1. The ending of the giver has been interpreted in a few different ways. Choose one possible interpretation of the ending and argue its validity‚ using clues from the text to explain your conclusions. Answer for Study Question 1 >> The two major interpretations of The Giver’s ending are that (1) Jonas and Gabriel have truly escaped the physical boundaries of their society and discovered a real village in Elsewhere‚ and (2) Jonas’s vision of the village is only a hallucination
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The Giver: Compare and Contrast essay Have you ever read a book and imagine something that was totally different than what the movie had? In your opinion‚ was your imagination better? Even though movies take away the imagination that the books give‚ books give more of imagination and more detail than the movies and you can’t visualize what is happening when watching a movie. The setting in the movie and the book were very similar. In the book they described it as a utopian community where the
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The Giver There are many similarities between the book Giver and the movie Giver. The movie and the book had the Giver stay back to help everyone in the community like he trained Jonas to be the next receiver. The book and the movie both have Gabe staying at the Jonas house in the beginning of the movie and the book. In the book Giver and the movie Giver Jonas had the same rules to follow in his job of being the Giver. In both the book Giver and the movie Giver everyone chanted the person’s name
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can overwhelm you. Jonas and The Giver feel this way. In Jonas and the Giver’s society‚ one person must be responsible for carrying the burden that is all of the memories‚ not including their own. The leaders of their society have given a burden to that person‚ made them lonely‚ and denied the rest of the citizens the gifts of true emotions and true happiness. These decisions made by the leaders should have changed a long time ago. In The Giver‚ Jonas and The Giver had been selected by the Committee
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Babies and Birthdays To start off‚ the book The Giver compared to my normal living society is very different. The Giver has a very controlled life style. They are not able to make any choices for themselves; it’s all made for them. As of our society‚ it’s more free-willing and not as controlled. We are able to make our own choices. The way families are made in Jonas’s society is different than our society. Also‚ the way birthdays are celebrated is pretty odd too. They live a very different life
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My book The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry is about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic world where there isn’t much diversity‚ there are no fear‚ misery‚ and other awful conditions in life. In this world‚ you don’t have many choices. When you’re the age of twelve you get assigned a job in the community at the Ceremony of Twelve. Jonas was enthusiastic about getting his job. He didn’t really prefer a job‚ but he liked to volunteer in the community. Jonas was privileged with
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The worlds in “The Giver” book and movie are similar and different in many ways. The movie doesn’t stay very true to the book but makes the story more interesting to watch. The movie still holds true to the main story as the book‚ but just adds some more exciting and dramatic moments. Here some of those similarities and differences. There are numerous similarities between the worlds in “The Giver” book and movie. Firstly‚ the setting in the book and the movie is pretty similar. The community
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Movies and books are always different; in a movie you can show multiple characters‚ and in most books you’re stuck in one character’s narrative. For instance in the book The Giver the character Fiona doesn’t care about Jonas as deeply as she does in the movie. In the movie she stops her injections‚ and she starts to love Jonas. However in the book she only “enjoys having Jonas’s company”. In the movie she also helps Jonas steal Gabe before he is killed‚ and she is put in the community jail for helping
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Do you know that you should always read the book before you watch the movie. In The Giver Jonas experiences many new places‚ and memories. In the movie and book Jonas experiences many similar activities‚ however there are also many differences. There are many similarities and differences of the setting between the book and the movie‚ The Giver. It takes place in a futuristic city in both the book and movie. In both the Giver still talks about climate change‚ and why the community doesn’t have memories
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