... is what happens in Lois Lowry's 165 page Newberry winner titled, The Giver. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in the future in an almost perfect community. Jonas is chosen to be the person who carries all the memories of the past, given to him by the giver... There are many good and bad things in The Giver. Some good things are that hardly anyone gets hurt. When ... anyone. No one sees color except the receiver because the memories are in color. The Giver's community is a stupid, boring place. Nothing ever happens there very interesting. There are lots of pointless rules. Th...

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... Jonas and he thought he was worth nothing, but the called him last for a special reason. He was to be the next Giver. The next major event that took place was when he went to meet the Giver for the first time. He went to where the Giver lived and they introduced there selves. In the Giver's office he had access to everything the community didn't. They couldn't even see color. They ... had no hills rivers or even storms. The community leaders thought it was best ... communities, but really they kill them. Jonas did not know that though. Then, one day he was with the Giver, he asked the ...

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... allowed to disappear totally for the sake of preventing the community from making past mistakes, so the Receiver must bear the pain. Jonas obtains both the positive and negative memories of the past, from the existing Receiver, a very wise older man who asks Jonas to call him the Giver.  Memories are conveyed from The Giver to Jonas through the laying of hands. As the Giver places his hands on Jonas ... 's bare back, piece-by-piece society's recollections are received. Through the reception of memories from the Giver ... to change things in his society forever. Using his daughter, a pre...

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... is obedient. In this society, there is the Receiver, and the Giver. The Giver was an old man who uses his wisdom to help the Community of Elders make better choices. The Giver believes that everyone in the community should be able to keep their memories. Without them, the difference between right and wrong becomes blurred. As the people in the community, take the pills, emotions and memories are stripped. When ... Jonas was chosen to be the new receiver, the Giver was ... want to rid themselves of a harmful memory, since having bad memories can have a great impact on a persons life and...

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... his own needs behind the needs of the whole. He becomes a slave to the ethics of self-sacrifice, enduring his job and performing it to the best of his ability for the good of all. However, the societies in The Giver and Anthem create different gender oriented situations. Anthem illustrates a male-dominated society in which the elders assign women menial jobs in the fields. In The Giver, women hold down jobs ... to in groups, such as Equality 7-2521, International 4-8818, and Union 5-3992. Each of these "groups- stands for a singular person. Likewise, in The Giver, the young children are...

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... "His childhood, his friends...-all that seemed to be slipping away from him." (135) This quote was pulled from the part after Jonas has been transmitted all tons of memories via the Giver. Once he's had a taste of color and life and feelings and his knowledge has been augmented, he cannot relate ... more: politeness, compromise, kindness, etc. These qualities are very important in a person. Someone can also learn some of these skills from mistakes. In The Giver society, there are no choices that could make you more diverse than your peers. Without choices, citizens are missing out on im...

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... a giant influence on the whole concept of the giver keeping all the memories. It is an illusion of her father's memories being taken away like how the giver holds them for the community. "My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past" (Lowry 77). The giver in the novel holds all the memories from the past so that the rest of the community doesn't have them ... . He keeps all the bad memories and the good. This is a reflection of Lowry's father ... those happy memories of puppies and picnics and take away the sad memory of the day her daughter died" ...

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... have a certain ordinance on manners or behavior; they are promiscuous and, for the most part, outgoing. The characters in Brave New World do not know the meaning of the world love. They do not have the slightest inkling of what it is like to have a family; the idea of parents and childbirth repulse them. The Giver has a society that believes in having families for stability, but they do ... his problems to anyone who would understand. His emptiness and feelings of guilt drive him to suicide. In The Giver, Jonas is plagued by almost the same problems. He knows too much and is forbidden t...

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... country or community. One way to maintain peace and order in a country or community is to have proper rules and customs.one of these communities is Jonas community. In the novel The Giver, the author Lois Lowery describes that how a community should have rules/customs to prevent problems such as wrong choices and pain and also to have order, this is shown through character ... them down. So--" He waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to disappear. "Sameness," he concluded (84). In this proof the Giver says that in sameness they destroyed hills so that the conveyance would not...

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... skip him. He did not know what this meant, but he would soon. The last name and duty was assigned but still nothing about Jonas. They saved the best for last; the job he was assigned was the most honorable in the Community, the Giver. Having the job of the Giver, Jonas, holds everybody's memories. The Giver that is retiring and having Jonas take his place must transfer all his memories ... to Jonas. He does this by placing his hands on Jonas" back then Jonas receives the memory. Jonas" roll as the Giver is to use his knowledge to help advise the rest of the committee in shaping the futur...

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... and began training immediately. This was the day that Jonas was chosen to be the new "Receiver". This was considered to be the most honorable occupation in the entire community as well as the most demanding. Jonas had to begin training with the current "Receiver of memory" who was now dubbed "The Giver.". Jonas was assigned to train with "The Giver" at his personal annex. "The Giver" now transmitted all his current ... he had seen in a previous memory given to him by the "Giver." He then mounted Gabriel and himself onto the sled and slid down the snow-covered hill. As they approached the ...

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... one can feel emotions? In the novel, The Giver, a community had made its world all equal, until one day, a boy thought that this was wrong. Jonas, the main character of the novel, discovers the emotional growth possible in the memories long suppressed by his community. The climax is when the plan to escape the society is being conceived and the actual escape itself. The conflict of the story is definitely man vs. society ... being to save Gabriel's life. Jonas is also very generous. For example, when he left the community he gave up everything he knew to help benefit it. The Giver is th...

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... , he is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. As the Receiver he has to get every memory from all over the world from the old Receiver he calls The Giver. The Giver: The Giver is the man who is the old Receiver. He is also the one who gives Jonas the memories. In the community were Jonas lives is everything is controlled, even people's memory. The Giver is the only one who is not controlled ... . It is the Receiver's job to store the memories of the community and pass them on ... to the next Receiver. Gabe: Gabe is an infant ... ...

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... . Another bad thing is that they can't love anyone. Their spouses are picked for them and they consider the word "love" improper English. They take pills so they do not love anyone. No one sees color except the receiver because the memories are in color. The Giver later gives Jonas his consent to escape their town to go search for a normal and happier world. Jonas ... his baby brother whose twin gets killed by Jonas' dad. Jonas and the baby escape out the town into a normal world at the end of the book. The rest of the book, is about the visions that Jonas has, and explains how the Giver...

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... by many other totalitarianistic practices. These were all done by the pigs in the animal farm, which are thought to be the smartest animals, but are really just the slyest. They rule the animal farm in a total monarchy and the animals are none the wiser. In The Giver, everything is the same so there is no choice possible at all. The people here are also unknowing of this and almost nothing ... because everything is chosen for them. These pigs choose what they animals eat, how much they work, when they do anything and everything. Also, in The Giver, everything is exactly the same so ther...

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... she had received were released into the community, causing chaos until they were assimilated. The Giver has also long questioned the community's values. He and Jonas develop a plan to force the community to share the burden of the memories. If Jonas can escape the community, the memories he has received will be released. The Giver will stay behind to help the community cope with the shock. Because there is no appropriate replacement old ... enough to take Jonas' place, the community will also be ... ...

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... excited to learn that he has been selected for the most prestigious assignment in the community. He is to become the next Receiver of Memory. Jonas is to be instructed in his duties by the previous Receiver of Memory, who has now become the Giver. Jonas is now charged with the enormous job of maintaining all the memories of the community from snow, colors, grandparents, love, and Christmas to ... love him, not ones who apply to have a son and then only "like" him. Jonas is not sure whether or not the people should be sheltered from these essential characteristics of the human spirit. As...

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... go immediately to his job, after his training at his job he has to go home immediately, he can be rude, he can't discuss his training with anyone except for The Giver, he doesn't have to tell people about his dreams, he cannot take medication for his pain from training, he cannot apply for release, and he can lie. Most of ... see beyond, though, he could hear beyond. His job was the receiver but now Jonas is the receiver. He now is The Giver. His job as The Giver is to transmit all of the memories that he has (all the memories of the world) to Jonas. When Jonas gained more knowledge, he...

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... Policemen often wage war on criminals. Why can't the world live in harmony? If the earth were to obtain this unachievable unity, what would be the cost? Is this peace worth the price? These are some of the questions that author, Lois Lowry, wanted the reader to ask himself as he read The Giver. Lowry wrote The Giver as an investigation to the questions above. By using diction ,epiphany, and ... anecdote, Lowry is able to illustrate the possible sacrifices the world would have to make for tranquility. ... him to escape this unjust community that steals its citizen's divine rights and di...

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... pick up his heat signal. Jonas couldn't help it and he knew they where going to get him. By that time he had lost most of the memories The Giver had gave him and had been released into the community. He had lost all of them except for one speed. With Gabe in his hands he ran as fast as he could. Reaching over ... there with Gabe, just waiting for their destined fate. The pilots came and hand cuffed Jonas and carried Gabe back into the plane. Bringing them back to the Elders they have came up with a different punishment, they thought this one was way past a punishment of being released. ...

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The Giver I recently read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. This is a science fiction novel and won the Newbery Medal for American literature for children. The main characters in the story are Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy and the Giver, the man who gives Jonas memories that no one else in their community has. Jonas? parents and his sister Lily, and his friend Asher are also very important throughout the story. Jonas ... lived in a community where everything was the same. Everything was controlled to be perfect ... arrived at where he was supposed to be, and met an old man who Jonas was to ca...

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I have read many books throughout my life. One of my all time favorites is The Giver written by Louis Laurie. This Book is about a Utopian society where everyone is the same and life is supposedly "perfect." I haven't met someone who has read this book and hasn't absolutely loved it. I would highly ... is their own community. At twelve, everyone is assigned to a lifelong job. Jonas on the other hand is selected to be "The receiver of memory." This means that he will receive memories from a man preferred to be called the giver. These memories will be painful and wonderful experiences that no o...

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... between total control and free will. He makes the choice to run away and leave The Community, because he doesn't want to suffer any more of the experiences and memories he has received so far. He and The Giver hope this will provide enough momentum for The Community to change. In The Community, where people are denied the freedom of choice, everything is determined for them and if ... for Release to Elsewhere, they are secretly killed. Any change at all goes to The Committee for study and the matter is just lost somewhere because they don't want change, but are also too afraid to bother...

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... suicide rather than a self-inflicted and painful death. In the book, the importance of a family unit is highly emphasized, attempting to show the importance of a caring family. This has some rather adverse affects in the novel including: the requirement to apply for a spouse, the government feel that spouses should be carefully matched the Government does this. The Government perform a similar procedure to have a child, each ... personally see logic in this although this crushes human's desire to decide and have unplanned emotion. In the novel "The Giver", they live in a society regimen...

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... Thursday that would expand restricted zones at airports to include control towers and give police access to all passenger information." This excerpt was taken from the Associated Press, and was written on November 22nd, 2001. This is a clear example of freedom taken away, not only freedom, but this ... to become his community's Receiver of Memory, although this position with the highest honor in the community, it left him feeling depressed and alone. The Giver transmitted the memories of the entire world to Jonas, so that he would gain wisdom from the world's past. Jonas received memories...

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