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Examples Of Defiance In The Giver

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Whether it’s in real life, or from an authors imagination, community will always impact a persons’ or characters’ actions during a difficult situation. Being in a troubling situation can bring out the best or the worst in someone. Unfortunately, a persons’ first instinct might not be the best or most favorable, and this can be a result of a community’s impact. In most science fiction stories the characters all show a similar trait, defiance. Defiance means to act with open resistance and bold disobedience. In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character is overwhelmed with the wisdom he receives and defiantly acts against his community. A similar situation occurs in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., when a character shows …show more content…

Unfortunately, this is more common than one would suspect. An appropriate example would be the teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. In the story someone is to blame for the strange happenings, and blame is passed around like a hot potato. When the blame is passed on to Charlie he says, “‘It’s the kid, it’s Tommy, he’s the one!’” (The Monsters are Due on Maple Street 681). Charlie’s defiance to common manners is shocking when he blames the young kid Tommy just get everyone else off of his back. The difficult situation of being responsible for something bad, overwhelmed Charlie to the worst point. The impact the community had on him was not helpful. With an angry mob hanging over him he felt pressured, which made him act unwisely and defiantly. Most importantly, the community's impact caused Charlie to act this way. In a community striving for all equality, Harrison Bergeron is a wreckage to their ways. He is a genius and athletic, which gives him an undesired advantage. Because of this, Harrison is imprisoned and given handicaps to slow him down in every way. The community throws all of the stress and pain on him, so the impact of all of it causes him to rebel. “‘I am the emperor’…..Harrison tore the straps of his handicaps off” (“Harrison Bergeron” 4). Unfortunately, the so called equal community tears Harrison apart, but he does all he can to show everyone what is actually happening around them, a true act of

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Martin Niemoller’s First they Came for the Communists, Eve Bunting’s Terrible things and Elie Wiesel’s Night are three stories that share a similar theme. Being a bystander will cause a negative effect that will reflect back on to you. In Eve Bunting’s Terrible things, The rabbits chose not to stand up for the other animals being taken away by the terrible things, but chose to be unsympathetic and talk badly about them. “Those squirrels were greedy, Big Rabbit said.

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The first reason that shows that Harrison Bergeron is a danger to society is that at his young age of 14, he went to prison because he was accused of trying to overthrow the government. He also has handicaps because he had talents that where above

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Have you ever been indecisive about anything? Such as whether you should have a smoothie or pancakes for breakfast. But what if you had no choice? Sometimes having to choose something can be difficult, but is a necessary skill in life. Conformity restricts you from having the option to choose, which in some cases can be bad.

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Harrison wanted to show society that there is beauty in everything and yourself. To prove the point “ “Now watch me become what I can become!” Harrison tore the straps of his handicaps…” on page 4. This piece of evidence proves that he wanted to show that society can hold him back.

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Debate-written Assignment, Conformity The idea of conformity is to eliminate individualism and to unite the society together, making it a safer place for the citizens to live, and develop in. A place that has no war, no hunger and no pain, where citizens create strong bonds between each other. The Giver written by Lois Lowry represents the idea of conformity in the society where they try to keep everyone the same as each other by following the same rules and trying to avoid having people stand out by receiving daily pills to lose the feeling of inclination between each other.

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For example, on page 299, “I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile, the wide bright eyes of a child, uncertain but easy to please. And I had been laughing at him too. Suddenly, I was furious at myself and all those who were laughing at him.” Here, Charlie was realizing that people were mean and rude to people who weren’t like them. That people looked down to people who were different than them or not as smart.

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Not everyone has a cure for what comes towards them but we do have a way to fight it. Charlies life has been an obstacle up to high school but he is about to make those changes, Charlie quotes ‘but even if we don’t have the power to chose where we come from, we can still chose where we go from there. The power of this message is strongly thought of especially during high school and the obstacles we fair to go through may hit us like a brick wall but that’s when we decide what we do with it and how we move on in life, as Charlie said its where we choose to go too from here. ‘I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with someone even if they could have, I need to know these people exist’ I think after hearing this quote and understanding the power of this novel that Its clear why Charlie writes

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