In the novel “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry, a society that is rested on the ideals is placed in the picture. The family as a unit is shown to be a compliant unit in the society and status quo has been achieved throughout by means of deleting the memories of the people and making them feel no...
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The Giver: A Critique The purpose of this book was to show us a possible version of a "Utopia". It was a fantasy oriented book, that was suppose to make you think about the possibilities for the future. The setting is a supposedly perfect society where everyone is taken care of and no one is...
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When one examines the similarities between Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Giver by Lois Lowry, they may be baffled. They may think that Lowry just did a run off of Huxley's highly successful masterpiece. The similarities are extraordinary, but so are their differences. Many aspects of...
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There are many words to describe the community in "The Giver. " Everything they did in that story had to pretty much be done in unison, as everything had to be perfect, feelings were not a real option and responsibility was the biggest Factor in the community. Although its very difficult to...
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Jonas, the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry, is a very strong person, which allows him to go farther in life then the people that surround him. Throughout Jonas's life he has known nothing but "sameness". He lives in a Utopian community where there are no choices and everyone in his world...
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Book Report - The Giver The Giver by Louis Lowry was published in 1993. I did not choose this book it was recommended to me I classify this book as an inner adventure. As in Jonas goes through an emotional metamorphosis (if you will) Jonas lives in a community where pain, rudeness, and war are...
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He was a peaceful looking man, with a large round belly and rosy red cheeks. Jonas couldn't help but smile as he stared at the gentle looking figure. The man looked down at the freezing pair. He noticed Jonas' trembling blue lips and the tiny shaking bundle of blanket that was Gabriel. The man...
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The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas was making a new beginning by making an end. Jonas was making an end by leaving the community. He left with Gabriel because he wanted to experience things outside his community. He was very hurt by the community because he couldn't openly share his feelings. He...
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Jessica Schwartz LIT 203 Meg Martin 11/28/06 Literary Elements in ? The Giver' By Lois Lowry The literary element that I chose for this piece of work is symbolism, as it seems to run heavily throughout the book. The first recognizable symbol is baby Gabriel who is a working metaphor for the future...
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Chapter one ?Everyone was silent after an aircraft had flown over the community it was a Pilot in Training he had misread the navigational instructions. The Pilot was released out of the community. ?Asher is Jonas' best friend, he talked to fast and mixed up his words which Jonas thought was funny...
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Throughout history, people had made numerous futile attempts to create an Utopian society. The term "Utopia" depicts on an imaginary ideal state. Such a state is describe in The Giver. In The Giver, Jonas's community believes in the renunciation of personal properties, rights, one's unique...
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1. One of the more controversial topics that Lowry touches upon in the giver is euthanasia, or the practice of ending someone's life to ease their suffering. Jonas's community practices euthanasia on very old citizens as well as upon unhealthy newchildren. Jonas's horror at this practice motivates...
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The utopian society described in Lois Lowry's The Giver is very similar to the form of government described in the Republic by Plato, especially The allegory of the Cave. Both are descriptions of totalitarian dystopic governments included the separation of people by professional class, assignment...
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Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of...
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Imagine a world without fear, pain, warfare, poverty, hunger, or terror. It sounds like a perfect world, a utopia but as you read farther into the book you realize that to accomplish all of these things you have to take away some fundamental elements of life such as feelings, love, diversity...
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The giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. Everyone is unfailingly...
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As we finish Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, you will be writing an essay which analyzes her style and message. When authors tell a story, their goal is not only to tell a good story, but to tell it well, and to tell it in a way that communicates a deeper message. Writers use the elements of...
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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...
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THEMES ANALYSIS of THE GIVER The Importance of Memory This story developed from the author’s understanding of the importance of memory, an understanding which came from her observation of someone who no longer had their memory. When one has no memory they cannot remember painful episodes in their...
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In her book ‘The Giver’, Lois Lowry has created a futuristic utopian community where there are no feelings, no choices and Sameness prevails. Sameness, as the name suggests, is the idea that all aspects of life are almost invariably the same for all community members and life itself has no choices...
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