...In the book The Giver , Jonas shows intelligence by understanding the community and through his common knowledge. First he is intelligent because he knows release is murder. Jonas really understood this when he saw his dad kill the twin. Next the Giver gave Jonas a memory. The giver gave him a memory of war. After the memory of the war he is angry. When Jonas sees his friends playing war, Jonas gets mad and tells them to stop. Jonas’s friends are mad at him for telling them what to do. Jonas sets up an escape plan with the giver. Jonas in not happy because of all that he knows he is missing out on in the community. Jonas gets mad at the voting committee for removing individualism. The main character jonas was very intelligent as he made he...
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...around for thousands of years, and there is still no cure, but at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Dr. Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, causing muscle wasting, paralysis, and even death. The disease, whose symptoms are flu like, struck mostly children, and in the first half of the 20th century the epidemics of polio were becoming more devastating. Salk, while working at the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, developed a polio vaccine, and the medical trials to prove its effectiveness and safety are still being analyzed. Fifty years ago the largest medical experiment in history took place to test Salk’s poliomyelitis vaccine. Close to two million children across the United States and Canada were involved in the trial, which was administered by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), also known as the March of Dimes. The foundation, created in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (a polio victim) and his law partner Basil O’Connor. Across the United States, 623,972 school children were injected with the vaccine or a placebo, using a double blind technique in which neither recipient nor administrator knew which one there were getting. The results, announced in 1955, showed good statistical evidence that Jonas Salk’s “killed virus” preparation was 80-90% effective in preventing paralytic poliomyelitis. The statistical design...
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...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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...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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...starvation, no fears, and no threats. But did they really live in a perfect world? Jonas and his own community lived in a "utopia." When Jonas was selected to be the Receiver of memory, everything changed. He came to know that his world hadn't always been the way it was. Things were different, there was diversity and there were variations. Jonas learns things that he would 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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...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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...said “. Today is a declared unscheduled holiday.” “Jonas and his parents , and Lily all turned in surprise and looked at the wall speaker from which the announcement came from. It happened so rarely...”(130).The structure of the day allows people to always have something to do because the entire family is completely surprised by the announcement. They are shocked because of how rarely they have a day off from their jobs. But the con of the structure of the day restricts the freedom of doing something new. On page 68 there is a list of Jonas’s rules for his new job, The Receiver, that he is expected to follow everyday. The structure of the day restricts the freedom of trying new things because he no longer has time to hang out with his friends, and his routine is restricted to only 8 things each day. No more, no...
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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 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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...For more than nine decades, the name Walt Disney has been preeminent in the field of family entertainment. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to today's global corporation, The Walt Disney Company continues to proudly provide quality entertainment for every member of the family, across America and around the world. The Birth of a US Icon October 16, 1923 Walt signed a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies — this date is considered the start of the Disney company first known as The Disney Brothers Studio. In 1923, Disney joined his brother Roy O. Disney in Hollywood. By the time he arrived on the West Coast, word came from New York that a company wanted to purchase the rights to a series of Disney's live-action cartoon reels, ultimately titled Alice Comedies. A distributor named M.J. Winkler offered $1,500 per reel, and Disney joined her as a production partner. November 18, 1928 Steamboat Willie is released at the Colony Theatre in New York -- this marks the release of the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon, and the first appearance by Minnie Mouse. Taking on Television: 1950s In 1954, the "Disneyland" television series premiered. The show included an introduction by Walt Disney and incorporated film clips from Disney productions with live action and coverage of Disneyland. Some four million people tuned in each week. Disney also made a national folk hero out of Davy Crockett when he devoted a three-part program to coverage...
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...main character, Jonas, is an eleven year old boy who undergoes a series of changes after he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory during the Ceremony...
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...(AGG) People have used other people for there self growth or hundreds of years starting with slaves but this is a new level. (BS-1) Before Jonas learns the feeling of love he agrees with the society not knowing it is against it. (BS-2) Jonas starts to question and disagree, now having a part of the wisdom and love the giver gave him. (BS-3) Jonas gets pushed to the point of rejection by losing all of his friendships and family members. (TS) This book states a clear message, people will do anything for love. (MIP-1) Before Jonas learns the feeling of love he agrees with the society not knowing it is against it. (SIP-A)Before Jonas learns more, his feelings of the the community are very normal, he doesn't think anything about what is...
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...The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas, the main character had courage, he took many risks that could have got him into trouble, and he figured out what feelings are. Jonas had courage to overcome many obstacles. For example, when Jonas was escaping from the Community on his bike, he fell and his knees ”were scraped and raw” (Lowry 214). Then he instantly popped up and continued forward. Jonas kept going forward because he was so determined to save Gabe, and get out of the town. Questions were against the rules his whole childhood until he became the receiver. For instance, It was really hard for Jonas to be brave enough to ask. At first Jonas was apprehensive about asking the Giver questions “Jonas looked self consciously into the pale eyes... sir I apologize” (Lowry 95). Since Jonas was courageous, he overcame many obstacles by being courageous....
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...leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.” Pascal Mercier once said. Jonas in The Giver, by Lois Lowry, leaves so many memories when he says his farewell to the community, but it is for the best. Jonas makes the correct decision by leaving because it benefits the citizens, Gabriel, as well as the Giver. Jonas is right to leave the community so the residents can continue on in a more sincere life. When Rosemary, the “failed Receiver,” was released, the community experienced all memories transferred to her, giving them a sense of reality. Unfortunately, the truth was taken back by the council. The moment Jonas leaves, so many thoughts are scattered, and too many to capture. Although there is some pain and sorrow, citizens are able to be more prepared in threatening situations. Jonas, when leaving the community, is able to see the bright colors and weather of the outside world, and best of all, hear music. Everyone in the community is able to experience colors, the elements, and culture, all things crucial to an enjoyable life. The...
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...about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives an average life with a mom, a dad, and a sister. Jonas' family has the privileged to take care of a young child named Gabriel only because he wasn't doing as well as he should be. In this community they pick the jobs you are supposed to do at the age of 12. Most kids get chosen to be a doctor or a road cleaner but Jonas got chosen to be the most important job there is, he was chosen to be the Giver. When you are the Giver you get to be privileged with every memory there has ever been. Some memories are hard on Jonas, like war. The previous Giver feels bad about giving Jonas bad memories but he feels it is needed in order to properly do his job. Some memories are good, like love. Jonas is given some rules to use as a Giver. He is allowed to ask anything from anyone, he is allowed to lie, and he is also not allowed to take any medicine unless he needs it for an injury or illness. In the community Jonas lives in they make you take medicine so you don't go through the stages of puberty. But, because Jonas is the Giver he doesn't have to take this medicine. Jonas begins to wonder why everyone in the community talks about release and what it actually is. Jonas requests a video of the latest release and finds out that they drug people into death. After most of his training is complete, Jonas realizes that the world he lives in isn't fair and he needs to get out. Jonas and the previous Giver make plans to leave the community. Jonas knows that if he...
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