The Giver is about two main characters‚ Jonas‚ and the Giver. Jonas is a young boy living in a “utopian” society in which everyone’s life is controlled by a group of elders. When people who live in the society become a twelve‚ they are assigned a job. Jonas expected to receive a normal job like everyone else in the society. However‚ he was assigned the most important and honorable job in the entire society‚ the receiver. He then undergoes training for his new assignment that opens his eyes to many
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Jonas‚ a pale-eyed‚ different‚ calm‚ intelligent and determined kid was introduced in the plain Giver´s society by Lois Lowry; society in which everybody most be the same in terms of physical appearance and psychological structure‚ theres always tension because of fear of braking rules and being released (that in this specific community means to be killed)‚ theres a permanent seek for perfection that reaches the point of killing the weird people and the needs and worries of individuals are not even
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December is coming around the corner. Jonas is trying to find the right word to describe his feelings. He thinks he is frightened‚ and then decides that frightened is the wrong word to describe his feelings. Frightened is when an unidentified aircraft flies over his community and orders everyone to keep their bikes aside and go into the nearest building. He is very wary about his language‚ unlike his best friend‚ Asher. Asher always mixes up words and phrases. Jonas remembers the time when Asher was
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and joy adds more value to one’s life. The people who lived in Jonas’s community were unable to express any type of feelings. Jonas was the only person who received the memories of love. The way the author compares Jonas existence with the others in the community is in his ability to vividly see colors. Colors are used as a symbol of different feelings. For example‚ Jonas felt sympathetic toward Gabriel‚ and wanted to be
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use everyday‚ But in Jonas’s world it was taken from them by the elders of the past. The first reason you should read The Giver is because of the amount of descriptive language. One example of descriptive language is in one of the memories that Jonas receives from the Giver. “He heard voices calling out to one another. Peering from the place where he stood hidden behind some shrubbery‚ he was reminded of The Giver had told him‚ that there had been a time when flesh
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to dress up to go out with friends because they all wear the same thing. An example of this is when Jonas said “mirrors were rare in the community (…) but there was no real need for them” (21). This shows that people haven’t cared about what other people
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How the book tries to warn us about the importance of right of choice‚ feelings and memories. The Giver is a very distinguished novel written by Lois Lawry. It follows the story of a boy through the twelfth year of his life. Jonas´s world was perfect‚ and everything was under control. In his “community ” there was no war‚ no pain‚ nor choices. At the time he turned twelve ‚ he was assigned as the new memory receiver and was singled out to receive special training from the giver. So as he undergoes
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saying‚ in the book The Giver‚ Jonas’s society celebrates birthdays much differently than our society does. For example‚ in Jonas’s society every member celebrates his/her birthday on the same day on December. No matter what month you were born in. Jonas reflects‚ “I could remember the Decembers back to when I had become‚ well‚ probably a Four.” To avoid jealousy‚ they have group birthdays. These are not considered to be birthdays‚ but ceremonies. In my society‚ every ones birthdays are different.
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nature and limitations. This claim can be supported by the fact that perfection is highly relative and humans are imperfect by nature‚ furthermore‚ we don’t have control over everything. Rosemary’s failure(p.76)‚ the pilot’s close flyby to the ground‚ Jonas running away and the plan to release Gabriel are all examples of failure even
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Act 1 Wisteria is a normal woman of the community. She works as an Instructor of Nines. She has a spouse named Aspen‚ who works as a Assistant of Elders. They have not signed up for children yet‚ because they are such a new couple. Both‚ Aspen and Wisteria have pale eyes‚ but Wisteria has a darker shade. Wisteria has great respect to the elders and The Giver. Aspen is quite a downer and thinks on the darker side of things‚ but Wisteria seems to cheer him up ( a little bit). All is normal until the
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