The Giver By Lois Lowry "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is about a community that is monitored very closely. Everything that the people of this community do is watched and recorded. They are punished for not doing something right or by the rules, and they are rewarded when done right. There is a procedure for everything, and they must follow the procedure or be punished. There is even a specific way that they are to ... , 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 mem...

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... 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. The way things are today is much better. In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry the important part of the book is the community. Without the community the town would be lost. The community chooses what you would do in ... life, who you would marry, and when you would die. The community only allowed each family to have only two children ... . People in the community had to apply for c...

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... and Dystopia in Collectivistic Society In a world of "WE-, where the individual has no sovereignty, where each person has an obligation to the community, where authority stamps out dispute, and where those who discover self strive to free the minds of those imprisoned by conformity "collectivism and dystopia dictate law. Ayn Rand's Anthem and Lois Lowry's The Giver demonstrate two archetypal dystopias. War, hunger, violence, and pain ... don't exist in these ostensibly "perfect- societies of interdependent existence. When one dissenter finds Ego in a world of Nos, and appreciates the wi...

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