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Term Paper Title	The Giver: A Critique
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The Giver: A Critique

     The purpose of this book was to show us a possible version of a "Utopia".
It  was a fantasy oriented book, that was suppose to make you think about the
possibilities for the future.  The setting is a supposedly perfect society where
everyone is taken care of and no one is different.  The author Lois Lowry does a
fine job portraying this supposedly "ideal" society.

     This book began with a description of sameness and release the two
general principles the society functions on.  It then continues while Jonas (the
main character) waits to receive his assignment in the community.  Waiting to
find out what his assignment is, and what it entails doing are  rises in action.
The climax is when the plan to escape the society is being conceived and the
actual escape itself.  The falling action is when he is escaping from the search
planes and trying to keep himself and Gabriel alive.  The ending is when he
feels triumph at the top of the hill and then sleds down it to his new family,
his first memory that belongs to him.

     There were many characters in this book the main one being Jonas.  Jonas is
a child in this supposed "Utopia" who ends up with the most important assignment
of all the "Receiver of Memory".  The Receiver holds all the memories of the
whole community so the community does not have to be bothered with feelings and
the emotional baggage that comes with them.  Jonas's trainer the "Giver" is a
old man who passes the memories on to Jonas and eventually thinks of the plan to
escape.  The Giver also adopts Jonas and Rosemary as his own kids in a way.  He
had a previous "Receiver" named  Rosemary who applied for and received release.
Release is the term for death in this community.  So when Rosemary was  released
her memories went back to the community.  Jonas and the Giver were talking about
this when the Give...

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