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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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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, written by author Lois Lowry, was published in 1993 after being inspired by her father’s memory loss in his old age. From this sad occurrence, sparked an idea to write about a world where nobody has experienced a bad memory. That very idea later became a tale many have grown to love called, The Giver, which to this very day is a success, earning itself honorable prizes such as the William Allen White Award along with a Newbery Medal and even had been granted its own movie adaptation. Lowry

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    Title and Author: The Giver by Lois Lowry Setting: A dystopian universe far in the future Characters: Jonas starts as an immature eleven-year-old boy struggling to find his niche. The Giver is a wise man that takes in Jonas as an apprentice. Jonas’s family is introduced to Gabriel, a baby boy with a remarkable connection to Jonas, after he has difficulties sleeping in the nursery. Plot: In this future civilization, the Elders controlled the citizen’s lives, from their hairstyle to their spouses

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    SUMMER READING RESPONSE JOURNAL Printed Student Name: James Cook Selected Book Title: The Giver Personal Reactions: Choose 3 ( three ). I liked that this book showed how people can be so controlling, “Rules are very hard to change” (Lowry 17), such as making rules so that everything is perfect when it is not and if people do not follow those rules then you will be released/ killed which is not anyway to treat a broken rule. In this book The Council is lying to all of its citizens saying that this

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