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    The Giver Reflection

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    This the society in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. In The Giver, the story is told by an eleven year old named Jonas. At the age of twelve, the children receive their Assignments as a new adult of the community based on interests. Jonas receives the Assignment as the Receiver of Memory. This is a highly honored Assignment. Jonas is different from the others and with his Assignment, he learns things that he didn’t know before. An old man who he calls the Giver tells him memories from the past,

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    The Giver Arguments

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    Giver Argument Essay The book Giver by Lois Lowry is about a 13 year boy named Jonas. Jonas was selected for a special job because he can see beyond such as the color red. The special job is getting memories of the past such as snow and love from his mentor the Giver. Jonas also receives memories about death. He sees a release, which is where a worker of the community injects a liquid killing the person. His dad killed one of the newborn twins because no one in the community can look the same.

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    The Giver Selfless

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    In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas is the dystopian protagonist. There are many traits that Jonas has shown throughout the book although there are a few traits that he tends to show more than others during the book. One of these traits is that Jonas is a very selfless character. He has expressed this by worrying for Asher in the beginning of the book, he has taken away lots of the pain that The Giver has to experience throughout his everyday life, and he ends up risking his own life to

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    Color In The Giver

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    In the book, ¨The Giver¨, Jonas lives in a utopian society where there are no realistic characteristics of the everyday life. In his utopian society, there is no warfare, choices, differentiation, memories, or color. Yet, before being given his important assignment of ¨Receiver of Memory¨, Jonas sees an apple change color when tossing it back and forth with Asher. Flashing forward to after he is given his assignment, the Giver explains to Jonas the concept of color, along with the memory of it.

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    Differences In The Giver

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    In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the community is completely different than ours. The main character’s name is Jonas. In Jonas’s community nobody is allowed to choose their own spouse or keep their child. Nobody has memories and along with that nobody see’s color unless you are the Giver or the Receiver Of Memory. In each family unit there are only allowed two children and two books. Another big difference is that everybody is put into an age group, no matter when your birthday really is, you don't move

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    Sameness In The Giver

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    In, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, The Giver does something that contrasts to what he would normally do by giving Jonas a bad memory. This helps develop the plot and a theme in the book. Normally, The Giver gives Jonas memories of nice things, but now, he has begun to give him memories of conflict and death. This shows that life was not actually perfect, contrary to what Jonas had believed when he was getting memories of sun and snow. Getting only good memories made him confused as to why Sameness was

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    The Giver Conflicts

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    had problems when he was going to train to be the new Giver of the communtiy. In the begining, Jonas thought that his community was a safe and good place to be a part of. Jonas had problems with his training because he was learning the trust about the community, and he didn't like it. The main character Jonas was on his way to the Giver when he seen a color he never saw before the color red on a girl named Fiona's hair. Jonas wanted the Giver to tell hm why he was starting to the color red everywhere

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    Jonas In The Giver

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    (AGG)The main character in The Giver, Jonas, has to face the truth and eventually rejects his community. (BS-1)Jonas has some outlooks on his community that change later in the book (BS-2)There are some events that make Jonas think about his community differently, but have not made him fully change his mind. (BS-3)This section has made Jonas fully change his mind about his community and the way it works. (TS)In The Giver, Jonas has certain outlooks on his community that change later in the book and

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    The Giver Controversy

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    The Giver, published in 1993, is an American, young adult, dystopian, science fiction novel. This is the twenty-second book Lois Lowry has written. According to Marie C. Franklin, Children’s Literature: Debate continues over merit of young-adult fare (The Boston Globe, February 23, 1997, p. G1), some reviews have criticized The Giver for lacking originality. Set in the future, the society described in The Giver has eliminated war, pain, hatred, and fear. It is in the point of view of an eleven-year-old

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    Decisions In The Giver

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    Throughout the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas makes many decisions that sometimes aid him and sometimes hinder him. The Giver is a novel about a 11 year old boy named Jonas in a community where everything has gone to Sameness, where there is no color and no differences. But at the Ceremony of Twelves where he is chosen for Receiver of Memories that all will change. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that all actions have consequences. Although

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