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Persuasive Essay For The Giver

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In a world with no feeling, no bad choices; a utopia with no color, no hunger, no questions, except for one. The Giver holds the memories of their community, and in distress they help with their memories. Although they have lots of usual similarities, the differences between The Giver. But for the Giver having all the memories therefore it creates sameness and no free will. This is one of the most common utopias. In the book The Giver you have your life half chosen for you. You spend your life only riding a bike, going to school and serving community hours until your 12. Once you are 12 you get assigned your job for the rest of your life, and it’s chosen by what you did in school and your community hours. After you turn 12 and get your job, your age no longer matters. There are many types of jobs although they are only jobs the community needs or wants. Two of the jobs are taking care of the elder and the new, but when you turn 12 you go into training to do the taking care of the new. But one of the most important jobs is The Giver. …show more content…

When Jonas, the new receiver training to become the new the Giver, saw a hole in their system he wanted to change it by giving the community their memories back. “’…that when she was gone, the memories came back to the people. If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever’” (Lowry 134). He wants the Giver to come with him but he says this to Jonas to change his mind. “’If I go with you, and together we take away all their protection from the memories, Jonas, the community will be left with no one to help them’” (Lowry 147). See the Giver has a hard job and Jonas gets really made that he can't share or talk about the memories, he’s even mad that people wouldn’t been allowed to see colors or… “He calls it the Capacity to see beyond.” (Lowry

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