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    The Giver Response

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    Before I give my response on how I liked The Giver, I would like to give a quick summary over The Giver. The Giver is about a Eleven year-old boy named Jonas who lives in a Community that is isolated from almost everything. Everyone in the Community is assigned a certain role to do. At the 12-years-old Ceremony, they are assigned to the job that they will do for the rest of their life. When the day finally comes for all of the Elevens to become a Twelve and to be assigned their job, Jonas is

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    The Giver Essay

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    novel by Lois Lowry ‘The Giver,’ the title role is a 12- year- old boy named Jonas, as the lead the character in the novel he is put to various tests that define him. Jonas is seen being a noble character when he takes on memories from The Giver, they cause him pain intellectually and physically giving him a heroic appeal. Jonas’s challenges are similar to another heroic character deemed The Giver, who has carried excruciating memories for multiple years. This gives The Giver a brave aspect because

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    Truth In The Giver

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    summer was called “The Giver”. It is about a young, eleven year old boy named Jonas who lives a life of not being told the whole truth. As he turns a year older Jonas receives the responsibility of The Giver. When he goes through his training he learns about the past, and with learning about the past comes the truth. Through his whole life, Jonas and the people from the town which he lives, have been sheltered from the truth. No one truly knows the full story, except for The Giver. In this essay I am

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    The Giver Theme

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry is an adventure through a messed up “perfect” town where nobody has any freedom of choice, nobody can see in color, and nobody has any recollection/memory of the past. Readers learn about a boy named Jonas who gets a special job holding the memories for the community. The first theme is, “It’s not always good to be perfect.” The second theme is, “As you grow, the more responsible you become.” In this book, there are three main characters, Jonas, Gabe ( a new child a.k.a.

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    The theme conveyed through the Giver is that individuality should be valued. The story takes place in a utopian society where everything is the same. There are no choices, no color, and no love in the Community of Sameness. The novel starts out a month before the Ceremony of Twelve, where the 12 year olds each get assigned a job. Jonas gets the assignment of the Receiver of Memory, and he soon finds out that lying is permitted, and receives several memories of the past without sameness, with pain

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    The Giver Controversy

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    The Giver, by Lois Lowry is one of the most controversial books in American schools. It is the most censored book in America. Lois Lowry uses several themes in her book that have been labeled as being unsuited or inappropriate for the age group, meaning that the story is too dark for children to read. According to the ALA “parents called the book ‘lewd’ and ‘twisted’” (Munley). Themes explored in The Giver that caused disputes between parents and across America that made the book controversial was

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    The Giver Community

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry written in 1993 captures a setting of a dystopia of conformity and contentment where emotions and individuality are unacceptable and frowned upon in this type of society. The main character, Jonas, obtains his jobs as The Receiver and spends time with an old man who is The Giver, who keeps memories and knowledge from past communities. “Jonas, an adolescent boy of 12 who lives in a utopian society. In the Community everyone is equal, and there is only a gray routine of existence

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    Rules In The Giver

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    The Giver is a book written by Lois Lowry telling a story about an utopian world. After reading this novel, it made me rethink profoundly that rules is a double-edged sword, while having it in society, notwithstanding we can be benefited, it can also hurt us. In my opinion, rules is the protocol which protect citizens from the harm of greedy and competition, and to balance the criterion of morality. First of all, the very thing in this world which created by the author is that they is a rule which

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    Memories In The Giver

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    Lois Lowry's The Giver is about a town that has converted to a utopian way of living, where the community runs perfectly without any problems. A teenager named Jonas is elected by the town's government to become the receiver, a job in which he has to learn all the memories of the past. The man who is teaching him the memories, the Giver, makes Jonas realize that the people of their district are better off if they have all types of memories, good and bad, so that they can enjoy every single emotion

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    The Giver Sacrifice

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    sacrifices may end in all memories from the past to vanish in order to make that perfect world. The Giver Newbery award-winning book wrote by, Lois Lowry, and movie directed by Phillip Noyce, is based on a boy named Jonas that discovers the true reason of why all of his dystopia is in sameness. This story reminds us why history and color is important, and why not to take it for granted. The Giver has many visuals and technique styles, but in my opinion music, framing, and lighting are the best are

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