...Lois Lowry's novel The Giver takes place way into the future. Jonas is chosen as the giver at the age of 12. He never had an assignment before. After getting this assignment, he started disobeying. He starts to disobey, he doesn’t believe in sameness and he doesn’t like all the rules. One lesson the story suggests is that when you are rebellious you can get in trouble and that sameness is not good. From the beginning Jonas always seemed to be a rebellious child, Lois Lowry describes how Jonas and the Giver were planning on how to sneak Jonas and Gabe out of the community. Because after all the memories that Jonas has received he wanted the community to see them and have them as well. Jonas, was not listening to the rules of the community...
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...David Ochoa September 16, 2009 English-Mr. Harrison Summer Reading In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is taught that his world is perfect, but finds out that society is controlled. Jonas was one of the main characters of this novel. Throughout reading The Giver Jonas seems to always be seeking more warmth and human contact then what the society he lives in already allows. The character Jonas portrayed various characteristics. Three of those characteristics that he portrayed were intelligence, curiosity, and kindness. The first characteristic that Jonas portrayed was his curiosity. While he was at school he was playing catch with a friend he had noticed the apple change in a way. “ Does anything seem strange to you? About the apple?” ( Pg 24, Lowry) Jonas kept looking at the apple all types of ways trying to figure out what was it about the apple that would catch his eye and make him to wonder such things. Disobeying recreation area rules he decided to take the apple home so he can do further analysis on the apple. After trying to find a flaw in the apple all types of ways he somehow had to convince himself that the apple was perfectly fine, and he had curiosity get the best of him. One of the other characteristics that Jonas had was his Intelligence. His intelligence was considered to be one of his unusual characteristics traits, but was to his advantage. Only twelve years of his age but his decision making was good and would catch on to things quickly...
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...Response to Literature Essay for The Giver The Giver is a novel written by author Lois Lowry. In this dystopian reading selection, the setting is a place called the community. The community is a place where everything is the same. Also, everything in the Giver community is safety-proofed. It is ran by a group of people called The Elders. The Elders are considered the wisest and most powerful people in the community. They are in charge of everything, from picking out job titles for the incoming twelves, to keeping track of the newchildren that are born. The setting of the giver affected the citizens by keeping them proctected from dangerous things. In doing so, trial-and-error cannot occur. Also, many of the citizens are used to everything...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s controlled community works to prevent world problems yet simultaneously restricts the people’s freedoms through the use of job assignments ,structure of the day, and lack of memories. His community controls how each of these aspects work and are used. All three have both pros and cons which work together to keep his town at peace. One aspect of Jonas’s controlled city is that he and his community are given job assignments. On the positive side job assignments prevent the people from becoming bored. For example, it is said “... The substitute Laborers ,would be given a different holiday, took over all necessary tasks: nurturing, food delivery, and care of the Old”(130). Job assignments prevent people from...
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...Tradition is a significant theme in "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I find that tradition is critical. I personally believe that tradition is a fundamental part of our society; it helps bring our friends and family closer together at moments that hold significance to us. Tradition for us, in my opinion, is one of the most important things we can have. In "The Giver" they have traditions such as speaking with the family about how they felt during the day, this, in my opinion, is a very proficient thing to do, because it can resolve any bad or mixed feeling and emotions you've built up during the day. Furthermore in "The Giver" they also have traditions such as The Ceremony of Loss, an event that takes place after the death of fellow community...
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...Imagine a world without any emotions. There would be no sadness, happiness, jealousy, pain, or love. Some might think that this would be a perfect society, but as proven in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. In the book Jonas, the boy who was chosen to be the next Receiver, experiences a society that is different from his own. With the help of The Giver, the man who trains Jonas, he learns that “sameness” isn’t exactly perfect. The Community controls emotions in an effort to create a painless society; the result, however, is a society absent of true emotion. Once someone in the Community begins to develop feelings for someone they are given pills to control the emotions that they are experiencing. The...
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...cwV-101 December 9, 2012 Family Television Review I decided to review Family Guy as my family sitcom. Although I have watched the show for a while I never really thought about what kind of worldview the family has or how it has impacted my own views on family values. In this sitcom it seems to me that the family does try to be good a Christian family and go to church but, they do not succeed in doing so. The family is rude to one another and the baby tries to kill his mother in almost every episode. I do understand that it is made for comedy purposes only I believe that sometimes they tend to overstep the boundaries. I do believe that they try to make the family seem like they would do anything for each other. In one of the episodes the mother tries to cover up for her son because they believed he murdered a man but it turns out he did not. To me that shows although he broke the law she was willing to do anything for him to protect him. I do believe that television shows impact our views on life and our views on family values. After watching this show I realized that it impacted my view on family values negatively. I would not want my family to be dysfunctional like the Griffin family. They make fun of the eldest daughter in many episodes, the second son Chris does horribly in school and both children to not respect their parents. The parents Peter and Louis love each other and I can see that in episodes and in all of the episodes I have seen they are monogamous to...
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...read only the main points of the event: dates, number of casualties, a few people who played major parts in the event, and a scattered bit of information to give you a general idea of what happened. Newspapers are effective for giving us important information, but books give us the ENTIRE story of what occured in the event, and every bit of information on it. Books are more in-depth on subjects than any other kind of literature, and are extremely detailed, giving us the ability to feel like we are experiencing the described event, or events, ourselves. This is why I think books are the best for learning about anything, and they are also excellent for expressing political or social ideas, which is exactly what Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, has done. Lois Lowry used the power of books to express a social message, that the world can never be perfect. That a Utopia is unachieveable, a place that we can only imagine. Lowry tells us this message through her story, and bases the Community on the world right now. There are many reasons that the Community is the complete opposite of a Utopia, an example would be the fact that citizens have absolutely no control over their lives. The moment they are born (hopefully they didn't have a twin that was heavier than them or their life would end right after being lifted off the scale), they are ASSIGNED, by leaders of the Community, to a family unit and then later on in their life they are assigned a job, a spouse, and a maximum...
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...Topic: In both The Giver and The Chrysalids, the communities strive to create utopias in their own ways. Discuss how memories are forgotten and/or emphasized to achieve this. In the novels The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and The Giver by Lois Lowry, both authors illustrate how, when communities emphasize or forget memories from the past, it will result in a dystopia. Further, it will also affect our future generations and the way people choose to live. In the Waknuk community of The Chrysalids, memories are recalled, emphasized, and then used to threaten and control the society. The leaders rule the community using fear as a weapon, forcing the people to believe what they want them to believe. The Waknuk community’s idea of a utopia is to have the people obey the rules, and to live under the will of God. A citizen of another community criticized the Old People, “If they had not brought down Tribulation which all but destroyed them” (Wyndham 157). The memory of Tribulation is constantly discussed, repeated and emphasized throughout the novel. The community believes that if they break the laws and rules of The Bible and Nicholson’s Repentances, their two only and sacred books, they will be faced with consequences like how the “Old People” of the past did. Tribulation is believed to be a period of time where the people of earth made too many mistakes, broke too many rules, that angered God, causing Him to destroy all of earth to give people a chance to start a new...
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...THE GIVER Lois Lowry ← Plot Overview → 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 polite. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers, who never see them, and spend their first year in a Nurturing Center with other babies, or “newchildren,” born that year. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in the society. Then they spend their last years being cared for in the House of the Old until they are finally “released” from the society. In the community, release is death, but it is never described that way; most people think that after release, flawed newchildren and joyful elderly people are welcomed into the vast expanse of Elsewhere that surrounds the communities. Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are also released, though in their cases it is an occasion of great shame. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient...
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...____“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” ____“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” ___“As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.” ___“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.” ____Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.” ____“All I wanted was a new life for my son to grow up free, and now you took the only thing that meant anything to me, I will never fly again, I will hang up my wings.” ____“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given...
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...If you enjoy being in control and need prefection, to the maximum, you may be the creator of sameness. Sameness is a process brought about by the elders and founders of the Communities. Sameness; the removal of all things that create differences such as the ability to see color, have weather, even down to not being able to pick out your own clothes, and Communities; the areas where everyone is located, are all from Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Within this utopic society, our main character, Jonas, lives in his community where sameness is present. In this society, your jobs are assigned and Jonas gets assigned as the Receiver of Memory, the most pristegious position according to the community, but what’s hidden inside the title can provide immense joy or immense pain. The book to movie...
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...Ayn Rand's Anthem depicts a completely collectivist society which is similar to the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry a futuristic society that had removed pain, fear, war, and hatred. Equality 7-2521 and Jonas are both in a society where they had no choice in what job was given to them. Equality was given the job of street sweeper due to his compliance to the council, while Jonas received the job of "The Receiver", which is the most trusted job in his society. It is one person suffering the knowledge of the past to make sure history will not repeat itself. Both characters were given their lives with no control over it. Past and present day societies treat their people in a similar way to Lois Lowry's Giver and Ayn Rand's Anthem's dystopian...
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..."The community of The Giver had achieved at such a great price. A community without danger or pain. But also a community without music, color or art. And books." Lois Lowry once said this. She is saying how the community of “"The Giver"” can be reached but everyone would have to give up books, art, music, and color. Music and color played a big role in both "The Giver" movie and novel. These elements in the movie and book are different and they have an impact on the story of "The Giver" in both the film and novel. "The Giver" book and movie are different because the music in the movie add more of a connection with the story and finding out about the loss of color in the film so soon takes away the insatiable feeling the reader gets in the beginning of the book....
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