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    In the movie The Giver the main character, Jonas, learns more than what society has been telling him and sees a whole new perspective. To explain, the government hides emotions, colors, music, and memories from the community and Jonas is fortunate enough to experience it all. On his first day of training as the receiver, he sees the vision of snow and a sled. Jonas is shaken by the memories he has learned but is deeply intrigued, begging for more information each day. In the film, the wooden sled

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    The giver book pitch I chose the giver as my deep book because my sister recommended it and I have always wanted to read the book. This book has been praised for being extremely descriptive and interesting. My sister said “it's an amazing book that makes you think in a whole different way of the American society and its future”.this book was featured on BuzzFeed's 32 books that will change your life. I would really like to read this book and find out why it has changed so many people. I am very

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    Summary: The Giver The Giver is a story about a boy named Jonas that lives with his father, mom, and his younger sister Lily in a sheltered community. This community regards age as an extremely important factor by tracking each boy and girl and assigning various labels based on their age. When Jonas turned 12 he was assigned his job. The elders in the community assign the jobs for the kids while Jonas’s friends and pears were assigned normal jobs he was selected to be the receiver a prestigious

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    At the beginning of “The Giver”, the reader is to believe that the community Jonas lives in is a utopia. It’s later revealed that this is quite the opposite of what it really is. A dystopia. Along with Jonas, the reader finds out how in Jonas’s community they they give the elderly and newborns lethal injections, constrict feelings, and prevent any form of decision making. When Jonas discovers these things through memories, he is distraught, and he has the right to be. He wants to show everyone what

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    Many characters in the book The Giver and the book, Dreamland, are comparable. For example, Cassandra O’Koren from Dreamland and Jonas from The Giver have many similarities. However, they also have a few differences. Cassandra and Jonas are alike because they both ran away and they have the same personality. On the other hand, their physical traits aren’t the same and they have different living conditions. First, Both Cass and Jonas ran away for the same reason. They felt they weren’t free living

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    really like to talk about the character “Giver” because I found him the most interesting character in the book. The Giver is the person who is responsible of keeping all the community’s memories and pass them on to the next receiver. In the book he’s an old man who is very wise and gentle, but haunted by the memories of suffering and pain. He didn’t do anything except giving memories to Jonas, and letting him know more about the community. But since the Giver was definitely clever, he already realized

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    The Giver When first beginning to read this novel the reader made then that the story is about. a happy and very safe world and you have an occupation you do your job and you are a good member of society. living among boys and girls with no feelings toward gender, but to live life one stage at a time. But actuality the world where Jonas lived in was not real they were corrupt and changed to make them feel different and also rather strange. The Giver was a very good book the book tells the life

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    The book The Giver by Lois Lowery has been a staple in the education system for many years. Many students today have even written papers on it trying to relate the novel to how times can be observed in their minds. With many of these students there might have been an abundant amount of questions remaining, with little answered, leaving them with anticipation to pick up one of the next four books in the series. The main similarities among the books are that they all deal with an utopian form of society

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    been traded for sameness and security. Lois Lowry has created such a place in the novel The Giver. This place, or rather a community, is expected to be in the future and is supposed to be a utopia where everyone follows the rules. The Giver is an amazing piece of literature; the characterization, thematic elements, and literary devices that are used just prove this point further. The characters in The Giver make this novel an amazing story. Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy and the protagonist of

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    The Giver is a great book and I recommend it because it’s a very interesting book to read. One reason I recommend is that it takes place in a community where they don’t tell pain and sadness. The main chapter of this story is Jonas be plays an important role in the story. In the community, they can’t leave the community they think they are the only once that are in the world. The main part of the story is that Jonas gets picked as the new giver. The giver is the one that once everything in

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