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    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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    The Giver Sameness Essay

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    Imagine a world that is perfect. A world where no one gets hurt‚ physically or emotionally. Where people don’t have to choose‚ or take risks in life‚ because all of their major life choices are made for them. This is the utopian world that The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ creates. There are no landforms or weather that couldn’t even hurt a fly. All big life choices are made for the people who live there‚ by an unbiased committee‚ so bad choices simply can’t be made. Most feelings are restricted‚ so that

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    Why Is The Giver Wrong

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    When a society strives for equality‚ there is a danger of loss of freedom and individuality among that society. In the book The Giver‚ the main character Jonas lives in a world where everything is perfect or so it seems. Everyone is controlled and are unable to make their own choices and they have count on the elders to make the their choices for them. Jonas realizes that the way they are living their lives is wrong and decides to change the way they live. The world that is Jonas’s community is wrong

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    you are ready to die because you are satisfied with your accomplishments and your life. However the question is; can you live a fulfilled life in a supposed utopia‚ if you are restricted and not given the freedom of decision. In the world of The Giver there is perfect balance‚ but no choices and sameness is strongly enforced. In Harrison Bergeron everyone is equal but those who are beyond others are restrained. In All Summer in a Day everyone lives on an alien planet in space‚ but are kept isolated

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    The Giver Society Analysis

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    they don’t have‚ the pain they never experience‚ what life was like in the past‚ he eventually makes a plan with The Giver and asks him to go but cannot. But no matter what The Giver says Jonas is still determined to make a change and reject his society in the way they live without the meaning of life. (STEWE-1) Knowing that Jonas will follow through the plan with help from The Giver‚ he asks him to come as well so he too can change the way society works‚ but yet he has to help the people when they

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry is a science-fiction book. Th story is set in a community where there aren’t any hunger‚ war and pain. Everything seems all right to him‚ until the day he turns twelve. Jonas is selected to be a receiver of memory‚ which is a job that there is only one person and the selection Helds once in ten years. After being the receiver of memory‚ Jonas’ life changed‚ and his happy and vital times is taken away from him‚ he became lonely. Later on‚ he discovered different dark sides

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    to choos what they wanna be when they become an adult. People are destined to change overtime.In this essay you will see what I mean It is about a boy from the book the give who changed overtime. In the book the giver they have this young boy named Jonas in this book everyone and everythingis the same everything is chosen for them..He is a good boy at the beggining of the story doing his community hours.They have to do a certain amount of community hour to get their

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    Desirable Living “You could not have strength without weakness‚ you could not have light without dark‚ you could not have love without loss” (Picoult). This quote perfectly describes Jonas’s society in The Giver (Lowry). Jonas has the perfect community without poverty and war‚ but it comes with a price. He is the only one who can experience real emotions and pain. Another imperfect society is the village from the video‚ “Christmas Kindness”. Oprah Winfrey says that one third of Southern Africa is

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    The Giver Color Analysis

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    of fairy tales. And if I’ve learned anything through that river of memories‚ it is that we can’t live in a walled world‚ in an ‘only us‚ only now’ world where we are all the same and feel safe. We would have to sacrifice too much.” In her novel The Giver there is a common message of sameness. It is in how people in the community dressed. It is how they looked. Their clothing and haircuts were always the same. Little girls wore ribbons and braids in their hair. It is also how they acted‚ and how they

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