The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy‚ named Jonas‚ who lives in small town‚ but this town is different. They do not have memories‚ so that there is sameness in the community. By having sameness‚ they can control everything to a point where there is no pain. They govern sameness by having no color‚ no memories of the past‚ you do not choose your job‚ and you do not know who your real family is. Choosing your own book to read for the summer has many challenges involved. You will have a hard time
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Most of the characters in this book show a respect for some of God’s rules although they do it unintentionally. The Giver takes place in a society where there are really no emotions and the people don’t understand death. Because the Giver takes place in this kind of society where everything is the same there are no churches or religion. Because the characters in the book don’t understand death a lot of time they will kill people unintentionally. Such as when Jonas’s father has to release babies what
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“Why doesn’t it snow in our community? Because Jonas they must keep the community in sameness. If we had snow we would have to have seasons and if we had seasons we wouldn’t be able to grow crops year round so we will not have enough food to feed the community‚” (Lowry). This rule described in Jonas’s community in Lois Lowry’s The Giver may sound unusual to us. But climate control exists all around the world today. After reading The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ most people would think that controlling
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The Giver Epilogue Jonas and Gabe just kept going faster and faster. He was going so fast that he felt that he could not breathe. Strangely‚ Gabe started coughing. It wasn’t long till Gabe’s cough started to sound like a choke. Jonas could feel the heartbeat of the young child beating abnormally fast. Thump Thump Jonas soothingly patted Gabe’s back to try and help him out. But the heartbeat would only go even faster. Although‚ this time Jonas could actually hear the expeditious heartbeat. Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump
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17-19 1. Describe Jonas new level of feelings and what caused them? Jonas new levels of feelings were caused by the stirrings‚ he had pleasurable dreams‚ because he hadn’t taken his pills in about 4 weeks. 2. What was father’s responsibility when the twins were born? Father’s responsibility was to make a selection of the twins to figure out which one would be released‚ because they couldn’t have twins in the community. 3. How does Jonas feel about being the new receiver? Jonas felt that he was
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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 a job that called The Receiver
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Book Report English Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Setting: A controlled‚ utopian community Sometime in the future Protagonist(s): Jonas Antagonist(s): The Community Relationship between the Protagonist and Antagonist Jonas‚ the protagonist of the story‚ is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in a place called The Community‚ which is the antagonist of the story. In the Community‚ led by a Committee of Elders‚ almost all aspects of every citizen’s lives are controlled and planned
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The Giver: Study Notes Context: She was inspired to write The Giver—which won the 1994 Newbery medal—after visiting her elderly father in a nursing home. He had lost most of his long-term memory‚ and it occurred to Lowry that without memory there is no longer any pain. She imagined a society where the past was deliberately forgotten‚ which would allow the inhabitants to live in a kind of peaceful ignorance. The flaws inherent in such a society‚ she realized‚ would show the value of individual and
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utopia for everyone in there. Jonas is the main character. The utopia is perfect to everyone in the community. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve‚ he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. It’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. The time goes by‚ Jonas got one year training for receive
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the time. They dressed the same and ate the same thing as their neighbors each day. But one boy‚ in particular‚ Jonas‚ was granted the opportunity to experience choice‚ instead of Sameness. Jonas shows the readers that our choices sculpt who we are as an individual and make us special. Everyone who makes their own choices are creating their own‚ distinctive‚ personalities. Once Jonas learns about how people used to make choices for themselves‚ he exclaims to The Giver that‚ “‘If everything’s
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