The Community In The Giver

Justin Rojas ElA- Essay #1 Mr. perino Due 03-07-23 How do society rules help us or hurt us Society rules can help us in many ways. The rules that we are following till this day keep us alive or being safe. These rules show us how we are supposed to act during a situation.

Furthermore, age is relative—some women may look and feel younger than their years, or they might seem a lot older than they actually are. This does not mean that just because they have celebrated a certain number of birthdays, they can act beyond their age or be “pre-mature”. Coleman's story discusses the relationships between three

Everyone has a birthday, that’s the way it is. Some might not know when theirs is, but they have one. Every year on the same day, you turn a new age, but don’t you still feel like you’re still that previous age? That is how Rachel feels in the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros uses figurative language, repetition and imagery to characterize Rachel as a young child who wishes to grow up and be stronger.

So now let's talk differences, as I stated earlier Annie is 17 years old and from Barbados, and Marita is 12 years old, and from the Bronx, NY. Annie John is being sent to England to begin her new life as an adult, and study to be a nurse. On the other hand Marita is just starting out her life practically, she's in middle school and randomly selected to be in her school, it's a special school called KIPP, Annie John's parents set her up to go to England and study to be a nurse so she could have a better life. Another thing I would like to point out are the culture differences, on one hand you have this a girl from a tropical place like Barbados, and then you have the other girl from grimy Bronx, NY.

Is Jonas’s society different than ours? Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.

This personification revealed how there no longer is a limitation to the hours that women and children have. Instead, they are expected to work all night long. New Jersey’s present to the boys and girls who had just turn 14 is that they need to work

In the story “The bicycle’’, by Jillian Horton, Hannah experiences a transition from an ignorant, obedient and disciplined child to a rebelling, disobedient and independent adolescent.

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry). In other words, this means that to get what you want, you have to get rid of other things you have. Although there are many similarities between The Giver and our society, there are a lot more differences like families, rules, and personal freedoms. For starters there are many differences with families between their society and our society.

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.

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.

Age: the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed. In the short story“Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. Talks about Rachel the main character on here eleventh birthday. Cisneros uses this to her advantage to characterize using details, specific language, and figurative language to explain her day.

The children of the Community are raised with a set of rules engrained into their brains. The most important rule of the Community is that they are forbidden to lie, with a focus on the younger community members. They are required to share every aspect of their lives, feelings and dreams, with each other. These Rules are enforced by speakers around the Community, in public places and in private homes, to ensure that all members of the society are obeying all the laws. They have no privacy.

The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques in “Eleven” to characterize Rachel by using metaphors, comparisons, and repetition. In the beginning of Sandra Cisneros’s short story, she states that when a person becomes an age older they will not feel a difference. The character Rachel explains that in different situations, for example, “Like some days you might say something stupid, and [you will feel ten]” a person might feel different from their actual age. She then competes growing old to layers of an onion, rings of a tree, wooden dolls that fit inside each other because, according to her, “that’s how being eleven years old is”.

For this assignment I have been presented a short story and a poem to analyze and compare. I enjoyed both of them. The poem and the story are different and very similar at the same time. The poem is about an Asian girl who is being raised in America and is just like every other American. Though she is treated differently because of her heritage.

3. Joey makes a big deal of having fallen in love with John in 20 minutes--practically love at first sight. Is this significant in light of how long it takes other people to make other decisions in this film? I don’t believe that it is significant to other people to make decisions quickly since other people like John and Joey’s parents demanded for more time to think about their decision. For example, Mr. Drayton asked for more time to approve their marriage to both John and Joey.