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Imagine living in a world without memories and living a colorless life. A world where your life is planned the second you are born. A place where you do not have the right to express any opinions and forced to hide away your own character. The Giver (Dir. Phillip Noyce) is a fantasy/drama film where people are fighting for their memories, individuality and freedom of speech while something similar is happening in the real world. In the film, there are various scenes where The Giver is passing on memories to The Receiver, Jonas, and slowly showing him the real world. The world in which we are fighting for our memories. Memories that we treasure because it has made us who we are and not being able to say “I remember that” is the hardest part …show more content…

People are fighting to help their loved ones to keep their memories same thing Jonas is doing in the film The Giver (Dir. Phillip Noyce). He tries to give everyone back the life they never saw or never remember. What is the reason why we do not support Alzheimer’s disease like we should? We do not know if that next person could be a loved one. The Importance of memory is what makes us who we are and we do not want to give that up and we do not want our loved ones to give up …show more content…

Phillip Noyce) portrays the lack of individuality, something it is being exposed in the real world. The world with the flaws that are being kept from the people in the film. In the film The Giver (Dir. Phillip Noyce), people do not see color, they do what The Elder tells them is right making them think that it is right. When in reality, it is all wrong. A scene from the movie shows that killing a twin because the baby is weaker is right. That they are helping the baby instead of having it live a traumatic life. People lack character, their own character who makes them different, but in that society, everyone must be equal. In our world, some try to be like other, but they have their own character. But everything has changed in our world, instead of helping people gain individuality, it is being taken away. In an article from BBC, Hannah Richardson

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Have you ever wondered if there could possibly be a community where no one has any idea of normal everyday things? Well then the Giver is just one example. The Giver has a long history, and it all started with Lois Lowry’s dad and how he forgot his memory of any bad thing and Lois Lowry started thinking what a Community would be like without any painful memories and she came up with The Giver. The Giver revolves around a young boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory which is the highest honor in his community. While Jonas is training he gets all of the memories that everyone else in the community has and then starts to think why can’t other people have these memories he then comes up with a plan to escape the community

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The Giver is a novel by Lois Lowry, about a dystopian society. At the beginning of the book, Jonas was obedient and loyal to his community; but when he gets assigned the job of the receiver he gains knowledge about his community which including colors, animals, and most of all, feelings. When Jonas learns these things, his opinion about his community changes, and he starts to feel resentment, anger, and hatred. At the beginning of the book, Jonas felt loyal and obedient toward his community.

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In the Giver, the writer, Lois Lowry reveals the theme through talking about an old profession in being the receiver of memory.. The theme of tradition is reinforced in the Giver through the character development of Jonas, a young boy chosen to do the job of the receiver. Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of memory a job in which he is given memories from, “Before the previous receiver and generations before him,”(77). This quote reveals how even having a receiver of memory is a very old tradition as it is said that they have been there for generations.

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At first The Giver warns Jonas that this process of receiving memories “will be painful”(Lowery 85). This pain comes in the form of both the joyful and the terrifying memories. The positive memories that he receives cause him pain because they make him see how much happier the people in his community could be. “Jonas’s realizations about the constraints of this rigidly organized life come gradually", but they begin to weigh on him (Chamberlain). Everytime he learns something new about the past he is overcome by the will to share all of his mental experiences with the rest of the population, but he knows he is not able to do this.

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The Giver is based upon a society in the future that has eliminated most forms of individuality. The Council controls everything that the people in this society are allowed to do. The Council has put an end to anything that may cause their people any type of pain or emotion. These people are no longer allowed to make any decisions of their own, the Council determines everything to

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Imagine a futuristic, perfect, and isolated world. Those are only some words to describe the giver. “The Giver.” In a place where problems don 't even exist. Poverty, hunger, climate change, crime.

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The Giver has some great giving news! Phillip Noyce is “movie crazy” which is a good thing because he’s unique compared to other directors! Since a early age Noyce, has experience with using cameras in his teenage years. Noyce has continued to make short documentaries on the more offbeat aspects of Australian life. The author Lois Lowry is a successful woman because she has written more than 20 books and with some novels, she has received award-winning awards.

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Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.

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Good versus Evil is an important concept. Evil sometimes overcomes our good but never exceeds good. The difference between evil and good is that good is an ability to have empathy and compassion towards other people. Evil is people who are selfish, self-absorbed and don’t have empathy towards others. Literature plays a vital role in developing concepts of good and evil and effectively portrays the morals of its time period.

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In a supposedly utopian world where everyone lives in conformity, people will discover that individuality and freedom of choice prevails protocol. In the movie The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce, Jonas, the protagonist, was given a gift of humane emotions and memories that were, a long time ago, wiped out to “restore” peace with one another. With this gift, Jonas soon realizes the significance and impact of genuine emotions that comes with freedom of choice. Through the filmic techniques of two dramatically different displays of colors, different camera movements, and close-up shots, Noyce includes the viewers in on Jonas’ journey to discover the importance of individuality.

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The Giver was a story of a boy named Jonas who lived in a false reality similar to Truman’s. Everyone was detained inside an area for live, never having full control of their own lives, because of the same purpose. This purpose was to protect us from the dangers of the real world, and create a haven. Eventually, both Truman and Jonas escaped their haven and returned to the outside world in order to regain their freedom.

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The movie “The Giver” sets place in a community that is very different than our own. The film is shown in black and white which represents the community and how they live their lives. At the head of the community is the elders who have come up with the rules for the community and choose the jobs assigned to the children. In charge of the elders is the chief elder who is like the president of the community; has the last say. One of the elders is very unique from all of the rest, he is the receiver.

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The most important assignment in the community. He must receive memories from the current receiver. The chief elder made the decision to make only one person bear the burden of the memories. Everyone thinks the community is perfect, a utopia, but Jonas sees all the flaws .Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

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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.

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The Perfect Place The society Lowry depicts in The Giver is a utopian society; a perfect world as envisioned by its creators. It has removed fear, pain, famine, illness, conflict, and hatred, all things that most of people would like to eliminate in today’s society. In this utopian community, major problems are rare, only minor problems such as scraping your knee would happen. Even when this would happen there would be medications sent to them.

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