"The Giver"

"The Giver"
by Lois Lowry

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Lois Lowry's The Giver is an excellent read that depicts an unusual society where the unrestrained choice is addressed. Human feelings and encounters are missing. The novel makes an interesting exchange with respect to life and enduring: would a perfect world join torment? The Giver delineates life that is methodical, predicable and effortless. In the group of Sameness, each individual has a particular, beneficial part to exemplify and execute. Decision is nonexistent and individual flexibility is impossible. Upon his twelfth birthday, Jonas is esteemed the new Receiver of Memory and must start preparing for this exceedingly regarded position. The Receiver conveys every one of the past's recollections that include both delight and agony — no one in the group is "troubled" with such information. Amid instructional meetings, the present Receiver must give Jonas these recollections. He gives him truth, the different substances that include the human experience. The Receiver of Memory is in charge of putting away upsetting recollections, which thusly, counteracts languishing over others. Yet, in the event that torment and enduring are wiped out, is the experience of life itself additionally smothered? I tend to believe that we can get which means from overcoming difficulty, from rising above agony into quality. The Giver depicts a strict society that endeavors to shield its individuals from agony and happiness. Yet, in the event that agony is wiped out, if sentiments and a combination of encounters are rejected, it offers an unsettling conversation starter: would we say we are truly living by any stretch of the imagination?

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The Giver

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        It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
  No. Wrong word, Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep,
  sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
  Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an
  unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice. He had
  seen it both times. Squinting toward the sky, he had seen the
  sleek jet, almost a blur at its high speed, go past, and a second
  later heard the blast of sound that followed. Then one more time,
  a moment later, from the opposite direction, the same plane.
  
        At first, he had been only fascinated. He had never seen aircraft
  so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the
  community. Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo
  planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode
  their bicycles to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the
  unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away
  from the community.
  
        But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a
  squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot
  jet. Jonas, looking around anxiously, had seen othersadults as
  well as childrenstop what they were doing and wait, confused, for
  an explanation of the frightening event.
  
        Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest

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