...David Ochoa September 16, 2009 English-Mr. Harrison Summer Reading In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is taught that his world is perfect, but finds out that society is controlled. Jonas was one of the main characters of this novel. Throughout reading The Giver Jonas seems to always be seeking more warmth and human contact then what the society he lives in already allows. The character Jonas portrayed various characteristics. Three of those characteristics that he portrayed were intelligence, curiosity, and kindness. The first characteristic that Jonas portrayed was his curiosity. While he was at school he was playing catch with a friend he had noticed the apple change in a way. “ Does anything seem strange to you? About the apple?” ( Pg 24, Lowry) Jonas kept looking at the apple all types of ways trying to figure out what was it about the apple that would catch his eye and make him to wonder such things. Disobeying recreation area rules he decided to take the apple home so he can do further analysis on the apple. After trying to find a flaw in the apple all types of ways he somehow had to convince himself that the apple was perfectly fine, and he had curiosity get the best of him. One of the other characteristics that Jonas had was his Intelligence. His intelligence was considered to be one of his unusual characteristics traits, but was to his advantage. Only twelve years of his age but his decision making was good and would catch on to things quickly...
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...even a simple 'thank-you' for instance, which both acknowledges the presence of a gift and also proposes some form of equivalence with that gift, can be seen to annul the gift (cf. MDM 149). By politely responding with a 'thank-you', there is often, and perhaps even always, a presumption that because of this acknowledgement one is no longer indebted to the other who has given, and that nothing more can be expected of an individual who has so responded. Significantly, the gift is hence drawn into the cycle of giving and taking, where a good deed must be accompanied by a suitably just response. As the gift is associated with a command to respond, it becomes an imposition for the receiver, and it even becomes an opportunity to take for the 'giver', who might give just to receive the acknowledgement from the other that they have in fact given. There are undoubtedly many other examples of how the 'gift' can be deployed, and not necessarily deliberately, to gain advantage. Of course, it might be objected that even if it is psychologically difficult to give without also receiving (and in a manner that is tantamount to taking) this does not in-itself constitute a refutation of the logic of genuine giving....
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...Response to Literature Essay for The Giver The Giver is a novel written by author Lois Lowry. In this dystopian reading selection, the setting is a place called the community. The community is a place where everything is the same. Also, everything in the Giver community is safety-proofed. It is ran by a group of people called The Elders. The Elders are considered the wisest and most powerful people in the community. They are in charge of everything, from picking out job titles for the incoming twelves, to keeping track of the newchildren that are born. The setting of the giver affected the citizens by keeping them proctected from dangerous things. In doing so, trial-and-error cannot occur. Also, many of the citizens are used to everything...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...Before Jonas was The Receiver of Memory, he thought his community was perfect, but then, he found out secrets that were being kept from him and everyone else in his community. When Jonas became The Receiver of Memory his whole world changed right before his eyes. In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the author shows that being individually different is a good thing. She does this through Jonas seeing colors and seeing everyone in his community different in their own special way. Having the job The Receiver of Memory, is very difficult, because what Jonas believed what was true about his community was wrong, which scared him. Jonas had always believed that everyone is the same and that everyone always told the truth. "How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made (pg. 48)." This was what Jonas thought until he became...
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...In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s controlled community works to prevent world problems yet simultaneously restricts the people’s freedoms through the use of job assignments ,structure of the day, and lack of memories. His community controls how each of these aspects work and are used. All three have both pros and cons which work together to keep his town at peace. One aspect of Jonas’s controlled city is that he and his community are given job assignments. On the positive side job assignments prevent the people from becoming bored. For example, it is said “... The substitute Laborers ,would be given a different holiday, took over all necessary tasks: nurturing, food delivery, and care of the Old”(130). Job assignments prevent people from...
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...have never known. Some things were joyful, while other things were painful. But the most important thing is that Jonas and the Giver learned that they are more than capable to make a difference for difference. In the book The Giver by Lois...
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...Tradition is a significant theme in "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I find that tradition is critical. I personally believe that tradition is a fundamental part of our society; it helps bring our friends and family closer together at moments that hold significance to us. Tradition for us, in my opinion, is one of the most important things we can have. In "The Giver" they have traditions such as speaking with the family about how they felt during the day, this, in my opinion, is a very proficient thing to do, because it can resolve any bad or mixed feeling and emotions you've built up during the day. Furthermore in "The Giver" they also have traditions such as The Ceremony of Loss, an event that takes place after the death of fellow community...
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...sadness, happiness, jealousy, pain, or love. Some might think that this would be a perfect society, but as proven in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. In the book Jonas, the boy who was chosen to be the next Receiver, experiences a society that is different from his own. With the help of The Giver, the man who trains Jonas, he learns that “sameness” isn’t exactly perfect. The Community controls emotions in an effort to create a painless society; the result, however, is a society absent of true emotion. Once someone in the Community begins to develop feelings for someone they are given pills to control the emotions that they are experiencing. The...
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...The main difference between Robert Smithson’s tour of the monuments of Passaic and St. Brendan’s account of his voyage is that while St. Brendan is discovering new lands, never before seen, Smithson is returning to the place where he was born and is rediscovering it. On his voyage, St. Brendan discovers a pillar of crystal. He records this discovery by spending four days taking measurements. St. Brendan and his companions spend their time measuring and mapping as they continue their voyage, assisting future cartographers. Alternatively, Smithson records what he discovers in photos accompanied by an essay. In his essay, Smithson uses metaphors to describe his view of Passaic and debates the significance of the relics he finds. Smithson states...
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...The Giver Essay “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain, it’s the loneliness of it.” The Giver is based on many different rules in one little community. This paper will be about three different rules in that one little community. One rule in the community is you can only have two children in one household, one male and one female. The reason why they have this rule is because, so every family is the same and no family is different. An example of this rule from The Giver is Jonas’s family. Jonas’s family consists of his dad, his mom, himself {Jonas}, and his little sister Lily. Another example from my life is my family, my uncle Eric, my aunt Stacy, my younger cousin Ethan, and his younger sister, also my cousin Paige. That is...
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...In The Giver, they give up their personal freedoms and achieve peace. I don’t think this trade off is worth it they give up almost everything for peace. They don’t have everything that they want and they can’t make their own choices, they can’t be unique and they don’t have their own opinions. They all act like everything is fine but in my opinion and Jonas’s it is not ok. The personal freedoms that are taken away are the biggest reasons why Jonas doesn’t like the rules of the community. Making your own choices are big in your life you use it to pick something to wear in the morning or what to eat. In the book you have no choices and all you can do is follow the rules. In the book you have only one choice which is where to spend your volunteer hours. You can’t pick your own job or where you live it is all decided for you for “Peace”. You aren’t able to pick your own clothes or pick your own religion because if you would pick your own clothes, that could contradict someone’s belief and it could cause an argument. In the reality you are able to pick your own clothes, house and how you live and where you live. . The only reason the community doesn’t go into panic mode is because they are brainwashed to think that...
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...The Giver Lois lowry dystopian story The Giver takes place in a small community sometime in the future, where everybody is almost the same. They live the same life. Jonas is the most important person. He is the first person to do something different. One lesson you can learn from the book is being different is fine. One way everyone is that same is that people could not see color. They even took pills so they could not see color. Jonas had to take pills so he could see not color. But then he stopped taking them. Jonas was different because he wanted to see color. When Jonas became the receiver his job was to get all of the Givers memories. People in the community weren't allowed to have those memories. So it could be the same. Jonas was...
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...Imagine your whole life has been decided by elders. the person you marry, who your children are, and what your job is. You do not have the freedom to choose how you live. Life in the community, where everyone was the same, was boring as gray. All of the dwellings and clothes were very basic. You made no choices, unless you were the elders. The novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry shows the theme of avoiding a deal of pain if we are willing to sacrifice freedom. So you must ask yourself, Pain or Freedom? What if every time you fell or scraped your knee you wouldn't feel the emotion, pain. The Community do not feel pain. Whether it is physical or emotional. There was no feeling of pain. For example,"It's the choosing that's important, isn't...
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