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Asher is one of Jonas's closest friends in Lois Lowry's celebrated novel The Giver. Asher is depicted as a carefree, fun-loving child, who is unique in his own way and different from his peers....
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Jonas's society is founded on the principles of Sameness and completely controlled by the Committee of Elders. Individuality and personal freedoms do not exist and conformity is required. Privacy...
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Since this is a dystopian novel, I think it would be interesting to try to build a case for how Lowry shows that creating a perfect utopia is impossible through her use of various literary...
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Jonas'relationship with his family is very clinical, formal, and structured whereas Jonas' relationship with the Giver is emotionally charged, informal, and unfiltered. For example, when Jonas...
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Jonas's community is highly structured, organized, and founded on the principles of Sameness. In his society, individuality does not exist and conformity is mandatory. Citizens also lack privacy...
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The Giver
In Lois Lowry's celebrated novel The Giver, Jonas lives in an austere, structured community, which is founded on the principles of Sameness. In Jonas's community, the Committee of Elders controls...
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As part of Jonas's Assignment, he is required to experience painful, traumatic memories and is prohibited from taking any medication to relieve pain that is related to his training. One of the...
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Lois Lowry’s The Giver is about a dystopian totalitarian society. As such, there are strict rules guiding everyday life for the characters, including rules governing language. School children must...
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The Giver
Jonas lives in a dystopian society that is founded on the principles of Sameness. In Jonas's society, the Committee of Elders is the ruling government body and has complete control over the...
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The Giver
The society in The Giver has laws to regulate the community. The laws range from regulating daily life, such as the ritual of families sharing feelings at the end of the day and reducing any strong...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which ensure complete uniformity, stability, and comfort by restricting citizens' individual rights and oppressing the population's...
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In The Giver, the leaders of Jonas's community (referred to as the Elders) go to extreme lengths to censor information and maintain stability within the community. Individuals who defy community...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been known by many names throughout history. This is partly because it had been often failed to be comprehensively understood. In the late 18th Century,...
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There are numerous examples of foreshadowing in The Giver. First and foremost is Jonas' apprehension about the Ceremony of Twelve. This annual ritual is the biggest event in the life of the...
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In The Giver by Lois Lowry, there are several incidents that could be viewed as Jonas’ epiphanies. First, there is the incident that occurs with the apple. Jonas does not understand it at first. He...
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It seems to me that you are asking about euphemisms contained within "The Giver." A euphemism is defined as follows: the use of an indirect, mild, delicate, inoffensive, or vague word or...
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1. The first important event is when Jonas’s father brings home a baby named Gabriel. We learn that the baby was not developing fast enough, and Jonas’s father got special permission to take him...
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Jonas's community is founded on the concept of Sameness, which champions uniformity, dramatically alters the environment, and completely eliminates individuality. Therefore, Jonas's community is...
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Jonas gets a memory of snow, sunshine, a sunburn, a red sled, a rainbow, hunting elephants, a sled crash, being burned, hunger, ocean, a battlefield, riding a horse, a birthday party, Christmas...
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Jonas lives in a community that is full of rules; however, most real world societies have a lot of rules too. The goal of those rules is to protect the community members, make sure society runs...
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Jonas's highly organized, structured community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which create a mundane, completely uniform society where individuality is nonexistent but citizens are...
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When we look at this quote, we are reminded of the plot of The Giver, in which a single man holds the collective memories of the entire community. In a society where there exists no hunger, pain,...
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Jonas's highly organized, structured community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which create a completely uniform, stable society. In Jonas's community, individuality it virtually...
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The disaster that took place in Jonas's community happened ten years before he became the Receiver of Memory. The previous Receiver of Memory was named Rosemary and happened to be the Giver's...
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After Jonas is selected to be the community's next Receiver of Memory during the annual December ceremony, he reads his list of rules and is surprised to discover that he is prohibited from...
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If you are creating a two column chart, the items on the left should be gained in order to give up the items on the right. They give up choosing their own jobs in order to lose unemployment. Even...
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It is clear early on in The Giver that the Elders are in control of not just families but pretty much everything that happens in their society. Still, the level to which they control families is...
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The main negative effect of the elimination of human emotions is the emotional distance between individuals. In Jonas's world there is no love. Individuality is censored. Since our emotions...
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Each ceremony contains a symbolic meaning as children age. The nature of the gift depends on how the child is maturing. The community has determined what milestone each age group should meet. If...
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The question asks about "suspense" in chapter 8 of The Giver, so a useful starting point would be to define what we mean by "suspense". Dictionary.com defines the word as: a state or condition of...
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In chapter 4, Jonas arrives at the House of the Old to complete some of his required volunteer hours before the annual December Ceremony. Once Jonas enters the House of the Old, he proceeds to...
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In chapter 15, Jonas arrives at the Annex and realizes that The Giver is experiencing extreme pain. Jonas offers to relieve The Giver by accepting some of the difficult memories. The Giver proceeds...
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In Jonas's community, the Committee of Elders determines each citizen's occupation and gives adolescents their Assignments during the December Ceremony when they turn twelve years old. In order to...
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Jonas lives in a highly organized, controlled society, where everything is strictly regulated and each citizen is on a tight schedule. In the story, there are several references to the "Collection...
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Jonas lives in an austere, highly organized community founded on the principles of Sameness, which require complete uniformity and obedience at all times. There are several scenes that depict the...
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In chapter 4, Jonas travels to the House of the Old, where he plans on completing some of his necessary volunteer hours before the annual December Ceremony. As Jonas is riding throughout the...
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Many of these differences are contained in the folder which Jonas brings home after he receives his Assignment. He is now exempt from rules governing rudeness. In Jonas's community, it is rude to...
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Lois Lowry’s The Giver is about a dystopian totalitarian society where nearly everything is decided by a committee. People have essentially been stripped of free will, and the society dictates what...
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In chapter 3, Jonas sits down to do his homework and notices that Lily's ribbons are untied. He recognizes that there will surely be an announcement over the Speaker directed towards Lily and...
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Lois Lowry’s The Giver is about a dystopian totalitarian society. There are strict rules, and children must learn and memorize the “Book of Rules.” There is a stringent need to adhere to the rules...
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In Jonas's community, the Committee of Elders regulates the birth rate and examines each newborn to determine if they are healthy and meeting their appropriate developmental goals. Any child who is...
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In Jonas's highly organized, regulated society, citizens have few personal freedoms, and the ruling Committee of Elders makes every significant decision in each citizen's life. For example, the...
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I think that one of the reasons that Jonas has such an effect on The Giver is because they do have a lot in common. The obvious similarities are that they both have pale eyes and the Capacity to...
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There are so many rules and regulation in the society of The Giver that the citizens of the town don't question the rules. For example, Jonas' father is a Nurturer who works with newborn babies. In...
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At the Ceremony of Twelve Jonas is awarded the very great honor of becoming the next Receiver of Memory. This is one of the most important assignments in the community and carries with it enormous...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which champion uniformity and completely eliminate individual choice in order to ensure stability, comfort, and safety. The citizens in...
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The rule regarding nudity in Jonas's community is discussed in chapter 4, when Jonas travels to the House of the Old to complete his required volunteer hours. For his volunteer hours, Jonas helps...
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While this isn't strictly an example of figurative language, one literary device in chapter 15 is allusion. An allusion is a brief reference to a person, place, thing, idea, or event of historical...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which champion uniformity, comfort, and obedience. In Jonas's community, sunshine, colors, music, and personal choice do not exist. In...
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In Jonas's community, which is founded on the principles of Sameness, the Committee of Elders selects a certain number of women to give birth and populate society. Birthmothers enjoy three years of...
