Lea Vilna Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Log Entry 4: Chapters 7-8: Question 2: In chapters 7 and 8, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory and although the Chief Elder calls it the greatest honor,it might give him more hardship and pain than fortune. She explains that the selection is rare and his role is very important because there is only one Receiver and it takes integrity, intelligence, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond to be that person. At first he wants to tell he has no idea what she means and that he doesn’t have it until he notices a change in the crowd that was quick but he knows that he isn’t dreaming because it’s happened before but to his apple. Then he realizes
After reading the chapters and articles on reciprocity I was really intrigued by the idea of reciprocity. I have been to Africa many times and I was reminded a lot of the Senegalese people when reading the articles. Many people in America do not really understand how much of what they get is so good when compared to other countries. We live in a place where we think we are the best and deserve everything and expect everything to get handed to us. An example of Generalized reciprocity in America are the farmers of our world.
The author also tries to pass on his own culture's tradition of friendship and brotherly love through the act of gift giving. He finds that the ! Kung Bushmen constantly criticize the meat he purchases and makes him feel inferior and belittle. They tell him that the ox he bought is just a bag of bones. In this ethnography, the author presents the importance of humility
The Giver Compare/Contrast Essay When some people hear the words ‘perfect society’ what do they think of? Take a look at our society, then take a look at Jonas’s society, between our two societies there are some comparisons and a vast amount of differences. For instance, the rules are different, as well as their family units and their individuality. While our society is more on the modern side, Jonas’s society is plainer. When it comes to the rules in our society, we don’t normally think of rules that are very extreme.
One of the main themes in “The Giver” is the importance of individuality. The people in the community are not given any freedom to be individuals. They are not allowed to be different, and this creates less understanding of the world. This is why the community needs a receiver to understand these things for them.
Is Jonas’s society different than ours? Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.
It is difficult to imagine being the most extraordinary and honored person in a community. This is something The Receiver inherits when they are selected to be The Receiver, honor. To be selected as The Receiver is an enormous honor that only absolutely brave people can handle. Whoever is selected obtains incredible memories that no one else knows besides The Giver. They are also considered the bravest out of everyone in a community
“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry). In other words, this means that to get what you want, you have to get rid of other things you have. Although there are many similarities between The Giver and our society, there are a lot more differences like families, rules, and personal freedoms. For starters there are many differences with families between their society and our society.
There are differences between modern life, and "The Giver.'' In a modern family you are allowed to have as many kids as you want, but if the family units in "The Giver," wants to have children then they have to choose either one or two children of each gender, only if they apply for a spouse. Modern family units don't have to apply for a spouse, because they are allowed to mate with each other, unlike the family units. When the family units apply for a spouse the have to go to the head of the community and ask them.
Modern Society V.S. The Givers Society Imagine living in a world where people have to do and say certain things. In The Giver they have to follow a lot of things, unlike our society where we have lots of freedom. The Giver has many different rules, technology, and precision of language unlike our society. Even though modern day society and The Givers society is somewhat similar, they do have many differences.
A dystopia and a utopia are two very different things. A utopia is a world where everything is perfect and there is no crime or poverty, while a dystopia is the complete opposite. Both of these words have been used to describe Lois Lowry’s young adult fiction novel The Giver. This novel is a very controversial work, with many wanting it to be banned from schools for exploiting bad parts of government, among other things. Specifically, the bad government in The Giver is the Committee of Elders, who made the choice of moving the community to Sameness, which has parallel views to socialism and communism.
(AGG) Sometimes all you need to do is break away to find the truth. (BS-1) Jonas always followed the rules until he started to notice small issues.(BS-2) Jonas starts to receive memories and he begins to turn against the society.
The Giver teaches us that love is essential. When the Giver transmits the Christmas memory to Jonas, Jonas learns of a feeling that his community is devoid of, love. “ ‘I liked the feeling of love,’ he confessed… ‘I wish we still had that,’ he whispered.(158)” Jonas now truly understands what the community has been missing, and what the community should be like. Without love, the community could never completely experience loss, therefore the release system survived and no one questioned it nor thought badly of it.
Read chapters 1 and 2, and answer the following short essay questions. Short essay responses should be in complete sentences/paragraphs, with intro and concluding sentences, AND must be specific (citing specific examples). Think of some of the feelings you have had today in a specific situation. Put your feelings into words like they do in the book. Using examples from The Giver, answer the following questions: a. Why would they share feelings like this?
Why do we give each other Gifts? Sociologist Marcel Mauss wrote “The Gift” in 1925 to analyze this question. He argued that the ritual of gift giving fulfills several key social obligations. Mauss believed that gift giving is an organising principle of social cohesion and act as social glue. For him gift giving is usually used to establish or strengthen an alliance or to achieve reconciliation.
