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    These are some differences between the two. First off, in the book Jonas is 12 years old and in the movie he is 18. Which brings me to my next reason. They added a special ❤ between Jonas and Fiona that was not in the book. In the movie there was a lot of things left out. Like in the movie they skipped a year. When you look In the book it showed when he was a 11 and then his sister was waiting for a bike. Also when Jonas left in the movie the giver gave him the memory of strength and courage

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    Some of the things I noticed between the two books is the differences in what opposes each of the protagonists. For example, while both books had drugs and gangs that opposed the two in their rise to the top, Alfred in The Contender needed to help his friend James who had become addicted to heroin. While at the same time dealing with Major and his posse who get Alfred to make some bad decisions, such as underage drinking and smoking. Sonny on the other hand, has to deal with two people who call themselves

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    Response To The Giver

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    over everything do you think that they should keep all of the secrets to themselves and take all of the fun away from you just to keep us safe from feeling pain/grief?The book is about this community that is utopian and everything is controlled.When Jonas becomes the giver he starts training and get a year's worth of memories,but then there was this new child called gabe and he had the same type of eyes like the giver and Jonas.Jonas wants to leave the community so that all the memories would go to

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    The Giver Conflicts

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    the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.” (Lowry 49) That's a quote Jonas makes when he talks about love and begins to fathom the concept of it. Jonas is the Giver in training

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    Throughout history, we see how humans often don’t persevere and don’t continue if something isn’t easy. This theme appears throughout The Giver. Jonas often has to sacrifice what he has in order to obtain something. The community also makes sacrifices but these sacrifices are not necessarily the best sacrifices. For example, the community gave up differences so everything could be the same. Many other things were sacrificed too such as snow and colors. Lois Lowry conveys how persevering is imperative

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    Receiver is a burdensome, rigorous, stressful, and a punishing job.Jonas’s training would be alone, which is a punishment, Jonas is punished because he has to drive through the pain, and Jonas being different from other people is also a punishment. Jonas’s training would be alone, which is a punishment. According to the Giver, “His training would be alone and apart.”(62)Jonas being alone and apart is a punishment because he would not be able to talk to anyone but the Giver. Meanwhile, Lois Lowry

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    Jonas is a kid when he received his assignment from the Elder, learns most of the truths he thought to be true were false. This is Jonas and his assignment is receiver of memories. He later learned so many trues that is community knows to be false that he gives all his memories away. He leaves his community to find a better life. The secrecy of the elders control and lying to the citizens about their assignments are seen in the Giver‘s job, what release really is, and their being a place beyond Jonas’

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    in their world is perfect to them. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns that without memories your knowledge is useless, that those who do not feel sorrow cannot know joy, and that those who never take risks never grow. How do teachers not even know everything? One thing that Jonas learns is that without memories knowledge is uses; only the giver and the receiver have memories. The giver was talking to Jonas about how teacher and people know nothing because they don't have memories

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    originally intended to bring about order by eliminating differences between citizens of the society. In the beginning of The Giver, Jonas notes that after Asher shows up tardy to a class, he “...remained standing to make his public apology, as was required” (Lowry 3). The fact that a public apology was required shows that citizens take Sameness very seriously. When Jonas is thinking about the Ceremony of Twelve, he corrects himself to maintain “...precision of language, which was strictly enforced.”

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the topic of memories comes up throughout the story. As the book begins, Jonas is shown as a rule follower, that respects his community. However when he is selected to be the new receiver of memory, his values change. Jonas learns of pain, love, and all the things that are taken away from him. Jonas yearns for all these emotions, and he has a plan to get them back. In The Giver, the author uses tradition, emotion, and deception to develop the theme that memories

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