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The Giver Compared To Today

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In the book The Giver written by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas’ community thinks their world is perfect when it's actually anything but. In the book, Jonas discoveries how bad their society really is. Their society has different geography, animals and ways of getting a job compared to today's society.
Geography is what makes the landscape, it can be hilly or really flat. In Jonas´ society they have no geography. Their land is flat. In The Giver on pages 106 and 107 it says ¨He wondered what lay in the far distance where he had never gone. The land didn't end beyond those nearby communities. Were there hills Elsewhere? In modern society there are hills everywhere. If people around looked in today's society, they would probably find a hill. In some cases, people might even see sinkholes that go hundreds of feet into the ground or mountains that go thousands of feet tall. …show more content…

In their society they don't want people to have feelings. In present day society, when people see a puppy, they want to pet and play with it and take it home with them, but that is showing affection. Jonas´ society does not like people to have feelings or love for each other so they take a pill to stop having feelings. On the other side, the citizens of today love animals. Today's society has average of 43% of all houses in the the modern society have a dog. Not all animal are domesticated but we still have a place for them called the Zoo. But for the animals that are domesticated, people love them and always another

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However , this particular town is the exact opposite. The text states,”There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel cake, and called summit, of course”(O.Henry 11). This mean that although the town's name the peak of a mountain, it actually is very flat. The text also states,”About two miles from summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake”(O.Henry 12). This statement proves that there is a mountain only two miles away.

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The news leaves Jonas in shock because he didn’t comprehend how the community has the willpower to kill innocent humans. As one can see the community is very secretive to make sure the people from the community don’t find out what it means to be

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The Giver Compare and Contrast Essay Imagine a lonely, boring place with no freedom of choice, and everything is controlled by a set of rules. That is exact type of community that Jonas, from The Giver lived in. The Giver is a dystopian novel and was written by Lois Lowry in 1993. The book focuses on a boy, Jonas, who has many problems with his community. The movie was released in 2014 which was 21 years after the book.

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In the story Quiet, by Susan Cain, she states the differences, effects, and changes that the culture of character and culture of personality made on society over time. The culture of character is different from the culture of personality. They’re different because the culture of character focuses on self identity and the culture of personality focuses on how others view you. The culture of character focuses on self identity.

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Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.

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Compare and contrast essay By: Gabrielle Kurtz The giver society and today are similar and different. The giver is uniform, routine, planned out, and all the same. The giver society and today are very different in some ways and similar in others. In a world where color and emotion dont exist.

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Jonas’s society is extremely different than the one we live in today. The first difference between The Giver and our society is the number of family members. In the book they can only have two kids, one boy and one girl; however, in America we are free to have as many kids as we would want. The second

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The thing that is so unorthodox about The Giver’s setting is that everything there is so predictable and orderly to a point where Jonas’s community is isolated from the outside world. Sameness may bring may bring many advantages in today’s world such as, equality for all people, organization, and having the sense of belonging, But, do the benefits

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He left the dwelling shortly after the sky became dark and the community still.” So on chapter 23, page 180, when Jonas when to the boundaries it says, “ Downward, downward, faster and faster. Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him. Behind him, vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left. He thought he heard music too.

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Only people with power in their job can have more access to more knowledge than others. In our society we have access to libraries, which provide knowledge. The Giver and are modern society have many things in common, but also have huge differences. When it comes to families, rules,and how leadership works many things can’t be compared. The illusion of Jonas’ society being perfect is far from the truth.

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Imagine living in a perfect society. No pain, everyone is equal, and perfect laws that every person follows. Now imagine being exactly like every other person with all your daily choices being made by someone else for you. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, this is exactly how they are living. The author writes about how Jonas’ perfect society is not so perfect after all.

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