Imagine a world where everything is the same, day by day. Imagine living a life where you don’t live up to your potential. You shouldn’t follow society’s expectations and just do things you are expected to do. Two good examples are the books The Giver and Cinder.
The Giver is a good example of following who society wants you to be or follow your heart's desire and be happy. Sameness means the lack of variety. In the novel The Giver, you can’t see color, the climate is controlled, and everything is chosen for you. Jonas is assigned the job of being The Receiver of Memory in his community. The Giver transmits memories from the past to Jonas. He starts receiving memories of events like war, famine and disease. After receiving these memories
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This story follows Lihn Cinder, a cyborg. Cyborgs are more advanced beings than humans. Cyborgs are people who have lost limbs that are replaced with mechanical prosthetics and are seen as secondary citizens. The physical components of the cyborgs are connected to brain and nervous system. The human population looks down on cyborgs because they think that they can’t feel. Cinder was adopted by the Ardi family but is seen as more property than a family member. Her step-mother blames her for her sister’s illness letumosis also known as the blue plague. After a heated argument Cinder is given to the government for medical research. Cinder is immune to the plague and and finds out her sister passed away. Lunars are the humans that migrated to the moon and adapted to the new environment in the past 150 years. The Lunars have the ability to control brain waves and are trying to use their manipulation to abstain more power. Very few people can resist it Cinder being one of them. When she does the leader of the Lunars, Lavana sees it as disrespect and orders her to be arrested. Cinder defies the Lavana by escaping from her cell and becomes known as a fugitive. She ends up planning to dethrone the Lavana and succeeds. She wouldn’t have know her full potential and defected society’s expectations if she didn’t do so never thought she was capable of . In conclusion Cinder has shown that no
The main idea through the beginning of the story is Moon trying to survive in the forest by himself and trying to fight off everyone. Then over time Moon realizes that he doesn’t want to live in the forest anymore and fight against anyone anymore. The conflict in the story happens a lot in the beginning of the story because Moon is trying to stay hidden but then towards the end of the story he doesn’t want to be alone for the rest of his life and fight off everyone that tries to take him away or help him. On page 3 he said “Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. He wasn’t worried about me.” So that quote shows that he was thinking that he could just beat up anyone that tried to take him away from the forest or anything else. But later in the story when he found out that he couldn’t just do that and get away with it he stopped doing it. On page 239 Moon was talking to a policeman and the policeman said, “You’re not gonna bit me or nothin’, are you? Nossir. I’m not aimin’ to try and whip up on anybody anymore. I don’t aim to bust out of anywhere, either.”
The things we want are often very difficult to get and achieve. For example, Jonas wants things to be like they used to before his leaders have taken away everything that makes his world different and fascinating. In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is living in a world where everyone and everything is the same. After the Chief Elder assigns jobs, Jonas has been assigned as the Receiver
Cinder is back, but with an even bigger conflict; she’s now an escaped convict and Queen Levana is out to get her, before she exposes that she’s truly Princess Selene. The determination within Cinder had kept her from losing her sanity throughout the entire book. There were some moments, however, where she felt like she was going to fall apart, but the motivation helped her go through the traumatic events. For starters, when she and Thorn go to Rieux, France to try and find Scarlet’s grandmother, the hybrid Lunar attacks begin. Cinder and Thorne were almost caught by police, when hybrid wolf-lunars jumped out and started ‘hunting their prey.’ A hybrid Lunar disguised as a human hid in the restaurant until the attacks began, and while Cinder had her bioelectrical manipulation on towards the officers, in the spur of the moment, the officer under control jumped in front of Cinder, resulting in the killing of the officer. Cinder was unbelievable traumatized by the event, as she had just accidentally forced the killing of an innocent. Shortly after. got back on track, and continued to fight her way through the event (360). This determination helped Thorne and Cinder escape. After they are abroad the Rampion spacecraft, Cinder had to convince herself that she could disguise the enormous spacecraft from detectors to safely escape. It reads, “Hide.” Cinder said the word slowly. Tenderly. A breathy plea ending in the soft, careful. “Hide. Rampion,
Cinder finds out the peony has died and is heart broken as she finally had a cure to save her. Queen Levana says that she has a cure for the plague but they can only have it if she can marry kai. They make a ball to celebrate that prince kai will become kind kai and Levana and him would marry. Kai asks cinder to the ball before he knows about the marriage but she declines. Right before the ball she gets a message that Levana will kill him on there wedding night. So she goes in a greasy gross dress to stop the
In The Giver by Lois Lowry, The leaders cause a disservice to the citizens of the community by having “Sameness.” In the book, Sameness was made to keep the people in the community safe, to not repeat wars that occured far back in their history and to make life easier, or so they thought. Sameness includes climate control, meaning no snow, no rain, and even no sun. Also, there were no hills and people weren’t able to see color. However, when the main character, Jonas, is selected as the new Receiver of Memory, he begins to experience life without Sameness.
Erland. Adri and Pearl, her other stepsister, prepare for the ball, where Kai will be named King, following his father’s death of the plaque. Kai continues to flirt with Cinder only leaving her with more pain, since her stepmother hates her and she knows Kai would reject her if he knew she was Lunar and cyborg. When the coronation occurs, Cinder receives a message warning that Queen Levana plans to kill the prince after their marriage. Cinder rushes to attend the ball in her dead stepsisters dress, only to try to stop Kai’s marriage to the Queen. She is discovered as a shell, or a Lunar hiding on Earth without Lunar powers, and Kai turns his back on her. It is only then she is imprisoned and Dr. Erland reveals she is really the Queen’s niece, long thought dead, and able to dethrone the “Evil Queen,” thereby saving the Commonwealth and Prince Kai. Cinder is instructed to escape, and meet up with Dr. Erland in Africa, hopefully in the future dethroning
“Blood-Burning Moon” carries a subtle theme of feminine power. While the men are physically and outwardly powerful, Toomer hints to the calm, collected, and mental powers possessed by women. This is not an obvious authority, but instead takes place in between the lines of the poem. Louisa is described in the introduction like "the color of oak leaves on young trees in the fall, her breasts firm and up-pointed like ripe acorns. And her singing had the low murmur of wind in the fig trees".
Much like the forest, the moon has an inherent affiliation with the image of magic. It is intrinsically supernatural, godlike and capable of much destruction. First, the image of the moon is supernatural. For example, the fairies move with the
Oh how the dark Silas loved the loving Luna, Amara. But love can be a curse and a blessing; for love at first sight, may be the reason for all the fights. When she came of age, her soul vowed to another man. Pack leader of them all, Klaus, Alpha of the Bloodrose Keepers pack. Soon Silas disappears out of rage, vowing to return for his childhood love, the luna, no matter of the cost. Ten years later the dark Silas returns, rough in all demanding a battle for Amara’s love -- truest warrior of them all. Clothed in white, the moon goddess, Isis, protects the pack over the so called rogue rebels, because that’s the way she designed them to be.
Since then the earth has been safe, under the arms of Luna and her people. Time has since then passed, and the need for the army of hope was dwindling. Luna was aging and weakening, and her children were fearful of being alone, being leaderless. Luna was on her own deathbed, her children surrounding her as she took her final breaths. She gave her power and leadership over to her first child, Avia, a weaker warrior who had little ambition to fight on the battle field. “But mother, I’m weak; I can’t even fight one of the sisters.” Her mother, with her thin arm lifted her child face. “Do not cry, do not call yourself weak; you are stronger in mind and body than you think. Lead your sisters, earn their trust and love.” Her body faded into the ground, a tree forming in her absence. Avia cried for six days and six nights, her tears forming a lake around her mother’s grave. The years after faded into a blur, Avia training with her sisters and trying to earn their respect; over centuries she grew, her mind and her body stronger, but she thought herself weak. She could not believe in herself, and this would cost her
moon as a rock coming towards the earth to destroy all them and their families. The
Because they where trying to say that their clients has no accountability of there actions during the full moon. This is where they come up with the “Lunar Defense”. Also another study was conducted by the University of New Orleans in 1995 there studied showed that many people in the hospital and the task force believed that many more traumas and crimes occurred during the full moon. On the other hand a publisher by the name of Eric Chudler who published a book by the name of Bad Moon Rising. Chudler had published that the research that was taken did not show that there was a change in violent or aggressive crimes during a full moon. The University of Washington also conducted a study on how crimes and violence may be affected by a full. There studies showed that 11,613 cases of aggravated assault out of that number many more of these cases occur during a full moon. Also that 34,318 crimes that has happened in a year span has occurred during a full
The Moon is a timekeeper, and the luminary that takes over when the Sun sets. In ancient Egypt, this Sun-Moon switchover was embodied by the Sun god Ra and the Moon god Thoth. When the Sun god Ra journeyed into the underworld at night, Thoth took over until Sunrise.
At moonrise, enslaved persons of all ages meet in a deserted Sugarmill. The group strikes for its freedom. The open sugarmill door shows the palm trees and stars outside; moreover, Popo, a ragged slave on sentry duty, paces just outside the building. A mother’s voice rises softly, yet abruptly, in the night, and her voice is calm and clear. Celeste, a mother, sings to her baby that she holds. Celeste proclaims the baby is her son, not a master’s slave. She thinks his freedom is paramount, or he will never have rest. At the door, Popo, tells Celeste to quiet down, before someone betrays them. There is a noise in the bushes, and Popo, upon investigating the sound, learns it is Azelia, the enslaved wife of Jean Jacques Dessalines. Azelia enter the sugarmill carting a heavy load of what appears to be fruit; however, she actually brings weapons hidden beneath fruit. The whips, swords, and pistols are weapons for fighting for freedom and for Jean Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the rebellion. They hide the weapons in a corner. Then, Azelia says
“This sacrifice happened on a full moon, which gave them power over the targeted victims.”Diana carefully thought, and said, “Since I can’t control the moon fully, it is imperative that we get someone who can. There is a girl doesn't