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    Diversity In The Giver

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    communities have no ways of spreading culture. Imagine a place where there is no color‚ no choice; a place where individuality and freedom have been traded for sameness and security. Lois Lowry has created such a place in the novel The Giver. First‚the community‚ In The Giver‚ is set in the future and is supposed to be a kind of utopia where everyone obeys the rules. The citizens have no connection with their past or what they have given up. The Community has control over the people’s choices‚ their freedoms

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    Essay on the Giver

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    | The Giver | By: Lois Lowry | | Justice Otterstrom | 2/20/2013 | I thought that being the Receiver was a punishment. He had to know everything from before his time‚ and he had to live with feelings while no one else had any. Being the Receiver was more like a burden than an honor‚ even though it was considered an honor to the elders. It was a huge punishment to all of the previous receiver’s and the previous givers. Some Evidence to prove that it is a burden... "He found that he

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    the giver notes

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    those‚ when I was selected. And here in this room‚ all alone‚ I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.” ― Lois Lowry‚ The Giver “He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear‚ to fade away‚ not to exist.” ― Lois Lowry‚ The Giver I believe that Jonas’ assignment as the next Receiver of Memory is an honor. It has only a few negatives‚ but many important and serious positives. I will start with

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    Birthdays In The Giver

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    In the dystopian novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ and in the current American Society‚ birthdays are celebrated both similarly and differently. In both societies birthdays are acknowledged‚ however in unlike ways. In The Giver‚ Jonas’s society acknowledges birthdays through a mass celebration in December until they are 12 years old. Every child 12 or younger‚ celebrates their birthday on one out of two days reserved for celebration. “The Ceremony of 12‚” on the second day‚ is the final celebration;

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    Bread Givers

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    Success is achieved by hard work and dedication. In Anzia Yezierska’s book “Bread Givers” Sara Smolinsky shows how that applied to her life. The author can relate to the story because she was an immigrant from a small Polish village and had to overcome many obstacles to become successful. She rebelled against her parents’ wishes of following the traditional path of a women immigrant and left home at the age of seventeen to live at the Clara de Hirsch home for working girls. The American dream for

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    The Giver Essay

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    The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry (1993) is a fictional novel about a boy called Jonas and how he responds to his community’s lack of choice and individuality. The novel explores Jonas’ encounter with memories of the past‚ and how he feels towards the lack of freedom within his highly controlled society. As the novel develops Jonas starts to question the ways in which his community work and disagrees with the strict laws of his society. People in the community in The Giver are unable to make choices

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    The Giver - Essay

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    Paula Barragan Period 2 Ms. Bui 11.01.12 Euthanasia becomes a very important topic and conflict in ‘The Giver’ as Jonas realizes what ‘releasing’ really means. What impacts him the most is the fact that his own father is the responsible of many newchildren‚ or newborn children‚ being ‘released’. Which leads him‚ Jonas‚ to take a really important choice to make the Community realize of what really happens and not just what they know. In our society‚ euthanasia is a very relevant concept‚ due

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    Symbolism In The Giver

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    had asked the giver why are there no colors. The Giver said‚ “Our people made that choice‚ the choice to go to sameness‚” (Lowry 95). This describes how in Jonas’s community there is no climate as the community made the choice to have this type of climate control; and this exists in our society today. In The Giver‚ Jonas finds out that his community doesn’t know what the meaning of color and the feeling of it. Climate control still exists in our world today. Readers of The Giver in this world

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    Women In The Giver

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    sisterhood is full of strength and pride directly linked to their ability to sustain themselves. Whereas in The Giver‚ adolescents are medicated during puberty in order to suppress the urge to have sexual desires. The act of carrying a child is connected to sexual acts in a vulgar way the community is not allowed to discuss. Does the presence of man inherently make conception an obscene act? The Giver in a society of both men and women outwardly cover up the process of natural conception‚ while Herland celebrates

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    Wisteria In The Giver

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    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 unthinkable happens...Everyone in the community is gathering for the Age Ceremonies‚ including the Giver. Wisteria is very excited because one of her best friend’s‚ Jessimay‚ who was a birthmother‚ baby is going to be named. She

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