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    The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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    a world with no fear and disorder. A perfect society, or so it looks. As the readers go on they come to realize that an ideal society is nothing like it sounds. The readers take for granted our rights to chose what we want to do with our lives; if the audience lived like the people in the novel, our society would have no individual rights. This is a community, created by Lois Lowry, where no one has memories, feelings, or ambitions. In a perfect community, there are secrets behind every person

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    The Outsiders is about two groups whose names are the Greasers and the Socs that don’t get along and always want to fight. “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about how nothing perfect in life will stay perfect. The theme of The Outsiders chapter 1 is divided community, the theme of “Nothing Gold can Stay” is nothing perfect will stay perfect forever. In The Outsiders chapter 1 Ponyboy, the main character says that the Socs were more wealthy than greasers. On page 3 chapter 1 Ponyboy says “We are poorer that

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    Community In The Giver

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    Lowry each book has it’s own utopia or perfect world. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines utopia as an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect. Each of the four books in the quartet is perfect in their eyes, but in others’ eyes it is flawed. For example, in The Giver the government suppresses individuality but, in Messenger the people of the village celebrate their differences. In The Giver Louis Lowry created a perfect world so different from our world today

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    In order to achieve false happiness; they used technology and drugs to make the society a perfect “heaven”. In the Utopian society, people are assumed to be in a world of sunshine and bluebonnets, and not care what lies beyond their Ford society. Technology is the mastermind in producing the perfect society, and the people are their lab rats. Drugs are used to hallucinate things, make us happy, and live a dreamlike life. Is having false happiness the best thing, do we need to forget what makes us

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    Perfection In The Giver

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    Lowry, the main character Jonas realizes that his community isn’t as perfect as it seems. Jonas’ experiences throughout the novel develop a theme over the course of the text by teaching the reader that you cannot achieve perfection. Although some readers may believe that perfection is possible Jonas’ experiences show that striving for perfection can lead to bad consequences. Throughout the book The Giver Jonas realizes that his community isn’t as perfect as he’s always thought that it is once he starts

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    Sameness In The Giver

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    in someone’s family unit are given to them by the group of elders. There is someone else out there that makes a community of sameness not so same anymore. That person must hold bitter memories so the community is safe. A community of that looks perfect might not be so perfect, f someone digs deeper and discover the secrets and chances people are missing behind a so call perfect community of sameness. Maybe many people are delighted

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    Utopian Communities

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    around for 4.6 billion years while the Utopian communities have been around for an appropriately short time. The utopian communities are a better place to live. One reason that life is better in the Utopian communities is that life is perfect in the Utopian communities. As well, there is no lying lie in the community. Of course that not everyone holds the memories. In the first place, life is perfect in the Utopian communities. In the Utopian communities, there are no arguments. On page 3 of the Giver

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    Ever heard of a society that is perfect from sex and drugs neither have I. In the novel Brave New World it seems that a way a perfect society for humans. With Community, Identity, and Stability three things our society needs. Is the Brave new world society perfect though? In Brave new world society there slogan does not show there unconnected community, No identity, and Instability. Community one of the most important things that makes up a society connects the people but when it isolates its

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    miss out on the meaningful lessons and themes in the story. Jonas is the main character in The Giver, a science fiction novel by Lois Lowry. Jonas lives in a society with no color, no music, no feelings, and no love. Everything seems perfect to the people of the community, but no one has any memories of what came before them. When Jonas is selected to become the new receiver of memory he meets The Giver, a man who has all the memories of the world. Together, Jonas and The Giver devise a plan to bring

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    of whether a perfect society is possible or even desirable suggests that our societies aren’t perfect as they are. In other words our societies are flawed and therefore imperfect and undesirable. In my opinion a society without flaws is neither possible nor desirable. Persuasive evidence to support my viewpoint is abundant in examples from literature, history and current events. Consider the case of “The Giver.” In “The Giver” Jonas seemingly lives in the perfect society. A community of conformity

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