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    I think that the world of the giver would be a dystopia because everything in there world is not perfect. For example, they kill babies if they don’t achieve a certain level of health or weight. Another example is they can’t choose anything for themselves or they can’t make any decisions on their own. My last example is that they don’t have any pain, illness, or even any feelings. My first reason why it’s a dystopia, they kill babies if their not healthy enough. In a perfect world they would

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    The Giver Theme Essay

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    past is arguably the most prevalent and important theme throughout The Giver. This theme is linked to the character of Jonas, The Giver and the Committee of Elders. Although in the dystopian society that Jonas lives in there is no communal memories, the committee of elders still recognizes the significance of memory. The Receiver is the sole keeper of all memories and therefore he/she is the only individual with wisdom. The Giver explains to Jonas that a memory “is how wisdom comes. And how we shape

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    Lois Lowry’s, The Giver is a unique perspective that is highly regulated to fit the idea of a “utopian” society. This society allows the government (also known as the Committee of Elders) to take ultimate control, deciding which humans should be “elsewhere” and which children are appointed to each “Assignment” .In this world humans become older, moving through stages and achieving new responsibilities at each stage. At the Ceremony of Twelve, adolescents are appointed their “Assignments”. When Jonas

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    Would the society in The Giver be a utopia or a dystopia?A dystopia is a beautiful place on the outside but on the inside is horrible on the inside.The community present in The Giver can be considered a dystopia because of the control, sameness and constant surveillance. The Giver is always controlled.The elders are the ones that make the rules to control the community.Jonas must follow the rules or he will get released. So being controlled is a big thing in the community.Jonas is the receiver

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author paints a picture of an imperfect society by the way she describes the community. People in the society are completely clueless about memories, feelings, and colors. The receiver of the community’s memories gains all the knowledge of the past events that have happened, so no one can receive any memories, and thereby have a sameness throughout the community. Life for these individuals is easy and controlled. When a person is a part of a community, having memories

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    Why share the memory of slavery? Jonas a 12 year old boy who is going to be the next giver who starts his training with receiving old memories.. In Jonas’s community a receiver is someone who gets old memories from generations back and his job is to keep all those good and bad memories. Jonas comes across the memory of slavery and he wonders to himself, should he share the stinging of a back after a whipping, the dripping of blood on the floor, and the loud noise of crying next to him. Based on

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    The Giver Maturity Essay

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    In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity

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    In modern society, the world is swiftly beginning to resemble a dystopian society. For instance, in The Giver Lois Lowry states, “We really have to protect people from wrong choices” (99). Jonas said this after he had an epiphany that if the community allows its citizens to make painless decisions than they will want to make more serious decisions. If the citizen decided the wrong job or spouse than it could have an extensive impact on the community. To protect people from choosing wrong the government

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    The Giver book and the movie has many similarities and differences. The book was published in 1993. The movie was made in 2014 so there is a big gap between those years. In my point of view there are more differences in the movie and the book than similarities. First of all the Giver book and movie had lots of similarities like Jonas first color he saw was red. The next similarity is that they discussed feelings at the table at dinner. Another similarity was that when Jonas was training to be a receiver

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    What if in our world we were all lied too, just so you could be protected by the awful memories and events that occurred in the past? Well, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist Jonas lives in a life full of lies. The most important differences between utopian society in The Giver and dystopian society are families, ceremonies, and release. Family is one of the most important things in the world.In Jonas’s society citizens must apply for spouse and are assigned by one of the Elders

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