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    The Giver Sacrifice

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    sacrifices may end in all memories from the past to vanish in order to make that perfect world. The Giver Newbery award-winning book wrote by, Lois Lowry, and movie directed by Phillip Noyce, is based on a boy named Jonas that discovers the true reason of why all of his dystopia is in sameness. This story reminds us why history and color is important, and why not to take it for granted. The Giver has many visuals and technique styles, but in my opinion music, framing, and lighting are the best are

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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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    The community in The Giver is a dystopia because of the lack of uniqueness , sameness, and complete control of the entire community . In the community in The Giver nobody is unique .Everybody acts the same and does the same thing everyday .Everyday they get up eat breakfast,go to school / work ,community service , and then they go home eat dinner ,share their feelings ,and go to sleep.you should be able to wake up in the morning and do what you want to do and be who you want to be . Sameness is

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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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    Dbq For The Giver

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    perfect society be perfect for everyone? The Giver is a novel that was written by Lois Lowry. She got the idea from her father who was suffering from memory loss. This made her think, what would it be like to live in a society where all pain was gone? And thus The Giver came to be. Is The Giver a utopia or a dystopia? It is a dystopia because of releases, limited choices, and the lack of knowledge. First of all, let’s start by saying that The Giver is a dystopia because of the releases or deaths

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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 tells the story of a boy named Jonas who learns about imperfection. Jonas grew up in a seemingly perfect community. He has just become a twelve and is given the job of becoming the new Receiver Of Memories. The Giver is Jonas’ mentor and gives him memories. Memories of perfect imperfection. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by informing the reader of many different examples of imperfection. Although some readers believe that the theme of the book is that

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    The Giver Dystopian

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    The Giver, written by Lois Lowry is a book about a world different from ours, which is seen as a utopia but really is a dystopia. In The Giver trust, is presented through the doors never been locked in the community while in our world we lock our doors to assure we are safe along with our possessions. People are not aloud to go around the community asking each other questions or it would be taken as offences in some cases like if it was a problem. Then it would be okay if it were not then it would

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