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    Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan and The Giver by Lois Lowry have two main characters. Jameela from Wanting Mor and Jonas from The Giver. These two novels are an adaption of emotional and physical oppression impacting these two young kids. They are oppressed by society‚ by their community‚ and by their own family. Jonas is part of a community with no climate‚ no emotion‚ no choices‚ and no memories. Imagine a world with no fear‚ pain‚ warfare‚ poverty‚ hunger‚ or terror. It almost sounds perfect. But

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    Receiver and the Giver The Giver by Lois Lawry is about a boy named Jonas. There is no war‚ fear‚ pain‚ or feeling in Jonas’ world. Nothing is special in Jonas’ life. However‚ after a ceremony everything changes. Jonas is selected as a Receiver and meets the Giver every day for his Receiver training. Jonas’ Receiver training from the Giver changes the way Jonas looks at his community. Jonas’ world is perfect‚ but at a ceremony‚ everything changes for Jonas. There is a ceremony every December. On

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    The Giver

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    Imagine living in a world with no pain‚ no color‚ no real feelings‚ no weather‚ no memories‚ no love‚ and more. In the book‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas‚ the main character‚ lives in a Utopian society. A Utopian society is a world that is perfect‚ a world with no problems or any bad things. As Jonas’s Assignment‚ he was selected to be the Receiver‚ the most honored job in the Community‚ and receives special training from the Giver. At first‚ Jonas enjoys the way his Community functions‚ but

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    The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ is a fiction story about a boy named Jonas who is given quite an interesting job. He is assigned to be a receiver of memory. He lives in a community that treats its people unfairly because they have no decisions‚ no feelings‚ and no color. I disagree with Jonas’s community because you have no options‚ no emotions‚ and there are no colors. Readers need to understand this because they will have a clearer opinion of exactly why Jonas decided to leave the community. In

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    In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the protagonist lives in a futuristic utopian society. Jonas is selected to be the community’s Receiver of Memory‚ the only person who knows of the memories from the past. Jonas thinks nothing of life before becoming Receiver‚ like the rest of his community. But‚ when he receives memories‚ he finds the deeper meaning to life. Lowry’s characterization of Jonas reveals the importance of valuing life through her development of Release‚ the game of war‚ and saving

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas and about the perfect community he lives in. Their life-style is a lot difference from ours because they don’t get to choose what they want‚ they are just told to do it. They also do things differently‚ an example would be the way they celebrate there birthday. Every children from 12 and under celebrate there birthday on December as a community. Another difference is the way they create their family unit. They are only allowed to have a certain

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    Progress is not possible without sacrifice. In the book‚ “The Giver” by Lois Lowry‚ Jonah‚ the protagonist‚ and all the members of the community lives a “perfect” live with total security. Everyone is assured a job and all insecurities and choices were eliminated such as music‚ color and even family members. Nevertheless‚ Jonah was willing to sacrifice this perfect‚ black and white world for a life of freedom and choice after discovering so much after given the job of the giver. In the end‚ when

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    The Giver - Essay The novel ‘The Giver’ was written by Lois Lowry. It’s about a boy‚ Jonas‚ who lives in a highly controlled world. The Elders of the community try to make the community a utopia but in fact they take away human privacy and freedom of choice. They kill people without the individual knowing what is happening to them. The Elders take away life and what it means to be human. The Elders spy on the community constantly. Surveillance is on every corner and in every home. Part of being

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    Jonas’ society is run completely by the government‚ where people have no rights. The book The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ depicts a dystopian society that a child named Jonas lives in. This society shares many similarities with modern society‚ but is also very different. Family units in the society featured in The Giver are extremely strict. This is shown on page 8 of The Giver‚ when Lowry states “Two children - one male‚ one female - to each family unit.” (Lois Lowry 8) Furthermore‚ each family member

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    Introduction Paragraph: Hatchet. Is the book I like the most among three. Written by Gary Paulsen and published in 1996 was even appointed to a Newberry Honor Book. It is a story whose genre is survival adventure‚ and its main subject is a broken parent’s boy’s survival in forest. Summary: Brian was a sad boy whose parent got divorced‚ and he had to stay with father for the vacation. While he was going to Canada‚ the pilot got a heart attack‚ and gas ran out. Then a plane went down to the forest

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