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The Giver Flaws

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Lois Lowry, in her novel The Giver, shows that the one who stands alone preserves the most. In the utopian society, everyone is the same, no one is an independent person. This causes all citizens to be identical, with their personality, appearances and all parts of their day to day life. In this society, it appears that they hold the key to a society where there are no emotions, no conflict, and no problems. It might seem like everyone in the society is brainwashed into believing everything is perfect, that is until Jonas. Jonas, the main character is not like everyone else. Jonas receives memories from past lives and realizes how flawed his seemingly perfect society is. Jonas begins seeing the flaws that frame his utopian society. Jonas begins questioning everything he …show more content…

Jonas was one of the only people in the community who had an idea as to what love was. Jonas believed that his parents must love him, but when he asked his parents “Do you love me?” (Lowry, 127) his parents didn’t even say they loved him, but that they enjoyed him. Jonas is even reproved when he even uses the word “love.” To have any type of feelings in their community is outlandish or to use to word love, it would be unheard of. All individuals in the society are permitted to never show love or affection. It is prohibited to even touch another citizen in the community. Jonas was the only one in the community who even know what love was. In the family units of the society, the family members don’t love or frankly care about others. They are just comfortable with each other. There is no love in relationships because partners are chosen for each other by the Committee of Elders. The children of the family units are also selected for their families. No one is bonded by blood or have any real feelings towards each other, but no one except Jonas and the Giver understands

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This quote shows how Jonas feels very loyal to his community because he is talking about how after he and Lily grow up they will probably never see their parents ever again, and in this quote, he is saying how it works the way they do it even though he is sad about it. This quote also shows how he didn't know any other way to live until he became the receiver. I easily understand how he feels so loyal and obedient to his community because if I had lived a way for my whole life and everyone else had to I

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Dystopian Conventions In The Giver

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171) The "citizens" of the "community" had no knowledge of the word, that the father told Jonas the right thing to ask was, “Do you enjoy me” (pg. 171) or “Do you take pride in my accomplishments?” (pg. 171) Neither of these suggestions expressed the true meaning of what the parents felt. The examples of evidence, control, has been demonstrated, it shows how control is a typical convention of a dystopia through knowledge being restricted, especially to keep the true meaning of release hidden and not knowing about death or the feelings of love and hate, as the "community" believes that these restrictions will not damage the peace and lead to a demolished society.

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The Giver: Driven To Become An Antihero

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So Jonas is now starting to push away since to him ” ‘It’s the choosing that’s important’ “(98). So Jonas wants to pick and decide things and not let anyone make decisions for him. But later on Jonas starts to contradict himself since he is starting to believe that he “ ‘ really have to protect people from wrong choices’ "(98). Since to them people deciding their jobs and choosing the wrong one was scary. But over all, Jonas is starting to lose his trust within his community, but at the same time still wanting to believe in what he was told word for word.

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Examples Of Perfection In The Giver

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Perfection is not necessary to have a good life. In the novel The Giver, the author, Lois Lowry, uses Jonas to show this message. Jonas lives with his family unit, with a set or rules that Jonas did not like. Until he met the giver, and everything changes Jonas´s life. This message of the novel Giver, shows perfection is not necessary to have a good life.

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The Giver Quote Analysis

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(TS): Throughout the entire book the one thing that Jonas wants is relationships, he goes through many different ones in the book, but in the end the reason for everything is based around Jonas 's desire to have somebody to be with. (MIP-1) Jonas is happy with his world because he believes that he has the relationships that he wants, so he listens to the government so he can keep these relationships. (MIP-2) Jonas begins to question the government and moves on to questioning his relationships. (MIP-3) Jonas is rejecting his world and abandoning his meaningless relationships in order to get

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The Giver Rhetorical Analysis

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They asked Jonas if he understands, Jonas say yes but does mean it. He didn't understand why that didn't feel that way toward him, the way he did for them. The Giver explains that the people of the community don’t feel emotion and feelings the way the two of them did because of sameness. (chapter

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Jonas: Changing The Community In The Giver

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He didn’t know love or any deep concern of anything. As the book went on Jonas felt love. He felt it for Gabriel, the Giver, Fiona. Before Jonas felt love Jonas thought it was a meaningless and useless word. Like the rest of the community.

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The Giver Compare And Contrast Essay

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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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What Is Perfection In The Giver

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Instead of dealing with that pain, they cultivated a seemingly perfect facade and a seemingly perfect society. The problem with this is, nobody is flawless, even the protagonist of the novel. To make this society perfect, the weight of every struggle in the history of mankind was put on Jonas’s shoulders. But, the only thing that resulted from this was anarchy. From this I learned that although perfection is desirable, it is not attainable.

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Communism In The Giver

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This is a typical family in our society as well. In Jonas’ society they do not live with their birthparents, but this are more and more normal in our society today. The parents in Jonas’s community are matched together by the Elders. The Elders analyzes the people who search for a mate, and sets together cupules who has the same interest and can fit echoers personalities and skills. This seems kind of weird for us, but it is not far from the way people in our society finds each other today.

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Family System In The Giver

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They even do not have their biological parents and could never know them. The kinship is acute absent in the community. Therefore, all the citizens in Jonas’ community cannot feel the emotion called

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How Does The Community Promote Sameness In The Giver

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If there was no sameness then the community would be a mess. It is because if a person chooses their spouse wrong then they will have to live with them for the rest of their lives. It is also the same when getting a job, if they pick their own jobs and they pick bad then they’ll be stuck with that job until their death. The elders think that sameness is good but Jonas is not happy. Jonas thinks that all people should have their own voice so that they can decide what they can do.

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Examples Of The Perfect Society In The Giver

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Although in our society, anyone can get opportunities to make their life great and can prevent some pain from entering their life like physical or heartbreak, but everyone loses someone they love and that’s something no one is able to control. Everyone has to bear the pain and learn to live without them knowing they can never be replaced, but not in Jonas’ society. Since there is no love, no one knows how to care for others who have passed or been ‘released’, “He pushed the plunger very slowly, injecting the liquid into the scalp, vain until the syringe was empty.” (Lowry 149). Before

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Love In The Giver

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