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Laurin_B Devoted Fan
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: The Giver |
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Some of us were chatting in the Jonas section, and someone pointed out that the main character in Lois Lowry's The Giver is named Jonas. We came across some other similarities:
1. Children are placed with "adopted" parents.
2. There's a ceremony performed for the elderly, etc. called the "Ceremony of Release."
3. Hearing music is considered to be a special gift. In trying to achieve "Sameness" certain genetic traits are considered to be anomalies and these mark certain people out, either positively or negatively. In Jonas' case, he can see color, and his Giver can hear music. This marks them out as being good candidates to be Receivers of Memory. They refer to as Capcity to See Beyond.
4. Emotions are suppressed (perhaps the "brainwashing" in Bree?)
5. The point of the whole exercise to achieve utopia.
These are just a few of the things I found, mostly from Wikipedia. (It's been a few years since I've read it )
What does everyone else think? Something here? _________________ "And then Max cried 'Let the wild rumpus start!'"
"Bee-otch" ~Bumblebee
"You a-holes are in trouble now. Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my friend--Optimus Prime." ~Sam, Transformers
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Spades Owen's Helper
Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 1679 Location: Cassie is watching, and so is everyone else, she's not that special.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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My younger cousin had to read the book for his English class.
I had thoughts like these but I pushed them aside, thinking they were not important.
But I thought that Jonas could see colors, and that is what made him special, being that everyone had been engineered or something to make the world black and white, or because they took all the memories of color and gave them to the Reciever, making it impossible for people to know what color was?
Here is a thought though: In reality, Jonas was not getting a great honor, instead he was being forced to hold all the memories of the world, many which included great suffering and anguish. They wanted to do this for two reasons, the first being that they did not want to deal with them, so they gave them all to one person, and two, it made the people easier to control.
Perhaps the Giver Jonas is more like Bree than LG15 Jonas. The Order will use her for their own reasons, and push aside her wants and needs. _________________ I like music, a lot. And yea, that's it.
Oh ****, forgot about beer.
And I listened to that song, and it sucked. No offense. |
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Laurin_B Devoted Fan
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I don't think that Jonas=Jonas. It just happened to come up that they shared characters with the same names, and then from there . . .
I don't know what any of it means, but I thought I'd throw it out there. _________________ "And then Max cried 'Let the wild rumpus start!'"
"Bee-otch" ~Bumblebee
"You a-holes are in trouble now. Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my friend--Optimus Prime." ~Sam, Transformers
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Spades Owen's Helper
Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 1679 Location: Cassie is watching, and so is everyone else, she's not that special.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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There is definitely some similarities between the two. _________________ I like music, a lot. And yea, that's it.
Oh ****, forgot about beer.
And I listened to that song, and it sucked. No offense. |
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Melisa Enthusiastic Fan
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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I just thought I'd mention that I love the book. :] _________________ LG16 - Never forget. |
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JustAnotherLonelyGirl. P. Monkey's Agent
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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This has already come up somewhere, and I placed my thoughts there, but I thought I'd reiterate how utterly incredibly The Giver is. I read it in 4th grade, and it remains one of my top 5 books to this day. _________________ "Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."
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Broken Kid Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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This seems like a good discussion for the Reading List _________________ President of the Owen Fan Club |
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allie Suspiciously Absent
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Melisa wrote: | I just thought I'd mention that I love the book. :] |
ditto |
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Shaneener Enthusiastic Fan
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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That book was great. <D
Actually, the moment I dicovered this series, I thought 'THE GIBBER!' when I saw Jonas.
(I caught up in about four days... I was caught up by 'The Human Ransom'. I first video I saw was 'First Kiss'. Or something like that. The video where Bree talks about Danny kissing her.) _________________ Sorry, what's that I hear?
That's the Hymn of One,
singing for you to be happy. |
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BlogGirl14 Enthusiastic Fan
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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hey its my theory! lol |
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exanimatebylove Enthusiastic Fan
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Dunno about the theory. But, good book. _________________ *mwah* Angie!
Get lost within the things that make you happy, and you will never be alone... |
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