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Rough draft The book “The Giver” was written by Lois Lowry in 1993. The book is about a community where there is no disease or penury, but you get little individual choice. The community is basically the perfect world, no war, drama, etc. In the excerpt from StudySync, Jonas expresses his concerns about his soon to be assigned career path to his parents. In the first few paragraphs, Jonas appears to be nervous as his father talks about how his ceremony of twelve felt like and how it went. In the

Holes Essay Can you relate to your life being completely changed after a big event? This happened to Stanley when he met Zero. If he hadn't met Zero, he wouldn't have changed as much. Before Stanley went to Camp Green Lake, he was meek, but after he goes to Camp Green Lake, he was bold. Stanley was always shy and never tried to make friends before Camp Green Lake. He always tried to blame stuff on someone else. “Stanley wouldn't take up for himself when people bullied him.”(Sacher

In The Giver, the community decides to make everything the same. There are no differences. No color, no major or minor distinctions, and no feelings. The community believes that this leads to perfection. The people living there believe that the community is perfect. In the book, The Giver, the main character, Jonas, lives in this utopian society. Utopia means an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In Jonas case, he lives in a place that everything is not just “perfect”

Having the dystopian fiction in our future would not be the best. If you have read The Giver, you might notice that it the community is controlled by rules. Almost as if it is dictated. Worse than the rules we have. For an example you can not show any kind of affection(holding hands) unless it is inside your family unit. Today's world you can, it just has to be appropriate. Of course not all the time is PDA accepted but it still happens. In The Giver they have a lot of rules they live by, and if

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s community is oblivious to lf their world is a Dystopia or a Utopia. The community is a Dystopia. According to the passage “Utopias and Dystopias”,a Dystopia is a Utopia which things have gone wrong.An Utopian society is a place we can only dream about. Jonas community is no dream they are completely controlled. Jonas society is ruled by the Chief Elder. The Giver describes three different ideals including lack of knowledge, sameness,and complete control. There

The Graveyard Book is an amazing book written by the New York Times bestselling author of Coraline, Neil Gaiman. Though some readers may argue that it was tossed around, overall The Graveyard Book was unpredictable, adventurous, and heartwarming. The Graveyard Book is very unpredictable and will keep readers turning every page with excitement. It has just the right amount of plot twists, shocking, while not leaving the reader confused. Every page is a mystery where you never know what you’ll find

Can you truly achieve perfection? The Giver by Lois Lowry follows a twelve year old boy named Jonas who learns how imperfect his community really is. After receiving a new job Jonas’ eyes are opened to how horribly the community treats its citizens. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that the truth hurts. Although some readers may believe that knowing the truth is always the best option Jonas’ experiences show that some aspects of his life have

After reading The Giver, it can be understood that our world and their community has many differences, but there are also some similarities. In this fictional world, the government’s main goal is sameness. For that to happen there had to be some changes in the community and the people that lived there. This community, was meant to be an Utopian society, way different from our world, but as the time had passed. The perspective of looking at it changed in a dramatic way after more and more differences

If you did something really bad almost maleficent after you got caught where would you go? In the novel Holes by Louis Sachar, the main character Stanley gets accused of stealing and is sent to Camp Green Lake. The whole camp is almost a joke considering there is no lake and there is definitely nothing green. The setting and character had a major influence on Stanley. In the novel Holes, the main character goes through major changes after being sent to Camp Green Lake. “If you take a bad boy and

How does Stanley’s character change while he is at Camp Green Lake? The book Holes, is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by Louis Sachar. Stanley is a young boy who is accidently framed for stealing. He is later arrested and faces court. Stanley is then sent to Camp Green Lake. He thought it would be fun, but he was wrong. The boys there were all dirty and Stanley had to dig a hole every day, waking up early so the blazing hot sun wouldn’t blaze on them the whole time. The dimension