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    The Giver Dystopian

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    Right The Giver strives to be a utopian society but the still can’t be perfect. The Giver is a book with the main character being Jonas, Jonas has no last name; however, no one else had the last name in their society. The Giver is a Dystopian because they get their memories erased, they are all equal, and they get assigned jobs when they are 12. In The Giver, they get their memories erased. They erase their memories from things like snow, hills, and color. The memory of color (red) The Giver claims

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    Emotions In The Giver

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    In The Giver, a dystopian story by Lois Lowry, there is a twelve-year old boy named Jonas. Jonas has been chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. This means that he will receive all of the memories from the community, so that they don’t have to experience pain. Jonas starts to feel different emotions and feelings and because of this he wants everyone in his community to experience these feelings as well. To do this he comes up with a plan that could either help his community forever or it could end

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    The Giver Banned

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    However only the Giver and Jonas truly see the Sameness for what it is; hell. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the book highlights many serious topics which are seen as controversial in the eyes of the parents. Many states across the country have banned this book because they, the parents, believe this book is disruptive to the learning environment and that it is unsuited for the age group of 12-14. This is completely untrue as The Giver should not be banned from schools. The Giver helps children to shed

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    The Giver Sameness

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    Living in a world where everyone is alike and everyone is monitored, all day, everyday. Sounds horrible, does it not? Well, this was what the community in the book, “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, was like. Everything was the same and no one had much free will, and there are three main ways this was shown in the book. The three main ways are, no one really knew or understood emotions, they chose to go to sameness for certain reasons, and everyone had to dress a certain way. In the book it talks about

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    The Giver Assignment

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    The Giver is a futuristic novel, written by Lois Lowry, about a boy named Jonas. Jonas was selected to become the Receiver of Memories, later he realizes his “perfect” community was not as perfect as he thought. Jonas makes a plan to escape to where the memories return to the other citizens of his community. The Giver falls into more than one genre. In fact, this novel falls into three: utopian, dystopian, science fiction. The story starts out as a utopian novel, everything seems ideal and perfect

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    The Giver Conflicts

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    The Giver: Symbols, Conflicts, Character Analysis Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver is mainly centered on the idea that memories from the past are forgotten. Only one person may retain these memories and convey them to the members of his or her community when needed to guide them through difficult situations. A few symbols are exploited in the novel such as the color red and a river. The internal conflict of Jonas builds up the novel because it deals with Jonas’ struggle with newly discovered

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    No Memories In The Giver

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    Imagine a world with no memories. In the novel, The Giver, memory is a critical theme. The characters in the story have no memory of the past. However, one person is responsible to carry memory; he is referred to as The Giver. This responsibility is eventually given to a child. He or she is known as The Receiver. Jonas is chosen as the Receiver. He is faced with the decision on how to handle good and bad memories from history. The society's leaders decided that no one could know about the past

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    The Giver Essay

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    The Giver, a book by Lois Lowry that was published in 1993, was not like anything I had read before. The novel is set in the future, or maybe the past, it never really tells the reader when the book was set. The novel was focused on a young boy, twelve years old, named Jonas and an older man known as Giver and what Giver teaches Jonas about their society and everything that is kept from everybody else. The Giver shares information and feelings that nobody else knows or feels. A few examples of what

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    The Giver Theme

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    not special in anyway. Everybody wears the same clothes, rides the same bike, the weather is always sunny behind clouds, and there is no color. Well Jonas had to live in the society for many years until his world was turned upside down. In The Giver, the Giver is the receiver of memory for the community. The receiver of memory is in charge of the memories of the past that the community doesn’t know about. The ceremony of 12 is when the people of 12 is given there jobs picked out by the elders. The

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    The Giver Reflection

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    is born. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, tells about such a society from the viewpoint of an eleven-year-old named Jonas. In his world, there are countless laws to ensure everyone’s equality, prevent war, and to keep the people from feeling pain. Sadly though, they withhold the joyous experiences of life. The Elders or the government of the society gave one person the authority to hold all the memories to protect the citizens. This person is the Giver. When chosen to be the next Giver, Jonas embarks

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