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The Giver By Lois Lowry.
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The Summary This book follows a smart young name, a
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smart young child named Jonas.
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He's 11 years old, and he lives in the utopian
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society. That is, you know, has technology has come kind
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of scientific element that makes it so, um, this community
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basically, it's all sameness, meaning that they all basically they
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don't really have any emotions like we do in any
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normal you know, environment.
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They don't really feel love or happiness or pain or
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hatred or jealousy, and if they do, it's like conditioned
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out of them.
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So there is a ceremony called the Ceremony of 12
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and when Jonas turned 12 he is given the job
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towers. They were of memory.
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So with this, he is going to be taught under
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the giver.
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The giver is the older man, and he's also the
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older receiver of memory.
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So he's basically transferring all the emotions and memories of
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the whole entire community, basically into Jonas, Um, but with
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this, they both feel like the community should be able
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to feel these emotions.
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So with that, they have a similarity, and his father
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comes home Monday.
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He is a nurture which means he takes care of
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Children or newborn babies.
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In the nurturing center, he meets Gabriel, who is a
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twin, and he is, I guess, technically, the weaker one.
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But his father wants to be neutral and give this
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child a chance to see who will come out in
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the end.
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But Jonah soon realizes that Gabriel is to be released
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or, you know, killed.
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And that really angers him.
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And he does love Gabriel like a son or brother,
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and he wants to protect him so they basically run
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away, which leads them to finding a cabin, which is
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playing Christmas music.
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Characters are Jonas, who is the main character new receiver
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of memory.
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He's compassionate, and he so is a really strong sense
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of perception, which I think is why he was given
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this job also him and the giver both.
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What a better world for his community.
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So the giver rules of old man.
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He is the current receiver of memory, and he's teaching.
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Jonas the giver also lost his daughter.
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She wanted to be released because she couldn't handle all
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the emotions and memories because she was once a receiver
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of memory.
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But she did not make it.
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Then we have Gabriel, who's the new baby.
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And then we have Jonas's father, who is a kind
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man and also a nurture and the nurturing center.
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We have Jonas's mother, who works in the part of
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justice and is basically, I guess, you could say, on
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advice giver.
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She basically just once the best for notice.
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Fiona and Asher, both his really good friends, Fiona he
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has more of a romantic ALS feelings to, in a
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sense of, like, a crush.
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But he also has dreams about her, which is not
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okay in this community, then asked was just a fun
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friend who likes to have fun and just get into
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stuff. And some famous I saw throughout the story is
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obviously a coming of age.
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The that's one of the first things I really ever
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noticed because of the ceremony of 12 and then a
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memory is a very, very common theme throughout this whole
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book. Even I mean, the whole premise of this utopian
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society is to censor their emotions and memories to make
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them all sameness.
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And, you know, Jonas realizes that this is not okay
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and that people should know how to love and they
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should know happiness and you know, pain and grief so
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they could actually feel something and live a life worth
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living and also control.
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I feel like every book I've read with a utopian
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societies, always underneath a dystopia.
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They want to control basically every aspect of these people's
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lives, and they have rules for them.
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I mean, it's like a teacher and a student.
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It's not equal in any way.
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And like they control, who gives birth, who gets married,
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who can they marry?
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Um, who gets to be released?
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I mean, who like who lives?
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It's a very, very not utopian society.
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Yeah. Um, two questions I did for my analysis.
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The first one is what fantastic or scientific elements is
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most important to this book.
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Why? How does it impact the story?
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Characters. So the scientific element that I kind of based
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this around is that utopian society with this obviously utopian
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societies are kind of more futuristic with technology and what
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not and I have already talked about how I think
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this is.
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Let's Utopia is in this book, and it's just really
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important because this whole book is based around trying to
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make everyone equal and sameness.
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But you soon realize that, like always, the leaders of
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the community are not so woke toe.
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What they think is what they think they're doing right
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is more of that.
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They're taking away someone's basic human, you know, instincts to
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feel, um, a quota, like is we gained control of
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many things, but we had to look out of others,
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which I kind of analyze that they that they did
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could train.
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They did gain control of many things, but they basically
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had a let go of basic human rights citizens.
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I believe.
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I feel like if someone was to tell me that
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I couldn't feel love or happiness anymore than like that
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doesn't sound very fun.
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I mean, like, how do you live life, you know?
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And then my second question is, what does the fantastic
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or scientific elements highlight in this story?
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Consider the major themes in character development.
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So I talked about the major theme of memory, and
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I believe memory is a key factor of being human,
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and it's what helps us remember what emotions are like.
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Say, I broke my arm when I was seven.
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I'm gonna remember that I'm not gonna just forget unless
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you know I'm older and something happens to me.
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Uh huh.
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And like, without knowing these memories of pain and, you
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know, happiness, these people's minds don't even know like what
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it really is.
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And Jonas, I would say his character development in this
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story really shows that he wants to let people have
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memory, that he wants people to feel these emotions because
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he wants people to feel how he feels because he
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says that it's very lonely.
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Here's a quote.
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The worst part of holding the memories is not the
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pain. It's the loneliness of it.
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Memories need to be shared, which I totally believe in.
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I think that's how people connect is that they can,
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you know, talk about how they feel, and then they
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can have some sense of clarity because they know they're
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not alone.
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And if I was in Jonas's, you know, place and
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I had to realize this at a 12 years old,
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I mean, that's a very big character development.
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He took the responsibility of running away with a child
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to try and protect this child because he loved him
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as a son or brother.
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Well, that is my project.
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Thank you.