The Community In The Giver

In a community that values Sameness, there is no room for individuality, which is an important theme in The Giver. In Jonas’s community, being your own person is frowned upon. The Chief Elder says at the Ceremony of Twelve, “You Elevens have spent all your years till now learning to fit in, to standardize your behavior, to curb any impulse that might set you apart from the group.” It is only in their Assignments that their differences are acknowledged and honored (Anderson 37). Children do not celebrate individual birthdays, they do not even know their actual birthdays; instead, they turn the next age with their group mates at the December Ceremonies.

In Jonas’s Society, when minors turn a certain age, they get the privilege to do something and/or give up something they did in the previous age. “The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then” (Lowry, 13). Furthermore, “‘Lily’, her mother said fondly, ‘your very close to being an Eight, when your an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away’” (Lowry, 18).

People often tend to move on from the past and leave it behind, but for Emily Grierson, the past was a simpler and better time to live. After her father´s death years ago the town takes away her taxes and states that she no longer owes any. Now several years later new leaders of the town try to take Emily´s money. People around her are modernizing their homes and Emily stays old fashioned. The town soon starts to see that Miss Emily shows a reflection of the town 's past .

Teenagers should not even think about sexual intercourse until they are ready to have a baby because that could happen even with the first

The reason why it’s an emotional journey instead of a physical journey is that she is going back to a memory. She is not traveling anywhere to accomplish a mission. Instead, she is going back in time to her twelfth birthday. She is watching the memory to get one last glance on what life is like. While she is watching this memory she says, “... I love you all, everything.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland” (Remarque 20). This excerpt can be interpreted to mean that the young soldiers are too young to have a real place like home, causing them to feel insignificant, but the older soldiers have a reason to live, for their “wives, children, occupations and interests.” The author uses the phrase, “taken no root,” to convey how the young soldiers have never been anywhere long enough to grow their “roots”, suggesting that they have no safe place, a place like home. This quote implies that the extreme confinement from loved ones have caused the soldiers to become secluded from their family, obliging them to think that they don’t have a purpose, and feeling like a “waste land.” The speaker refers to himself and the young soldiers as a “waste land” to symbolize that the men consider themselves insignificant, they perceive themselves as pawns in a chess game, causing repercussions to their familial relationship.

For instance the Cunninghams want their kids to be successful and have an education while the Ewell’s come “the first day every year then leave”(27). Lastly, they are complete opposites when it comes to working. Mr. Cunningham was eager “to keep his land”(21), but Mr. Ewell was so poor and lazy that landowners let him “hunt out of season”(31)

As adults, they work to sweep the street. In this community system, individuals are not able to communicate with one another for friendship and developing theoretical and material innovations are nonexistent. Society in The Giver might is better to live in than that of Anthem because Anthem oftentimes is shown to limit individuals from creating new ideas and practices, communicating with one another, and choosing a job of

If he becomes an adult in the life, he thought his own free will disappear or decrease more quickly than other children. “In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” (Barrie 199) He has his own thought that if the children grow up in the life, their own free will disappear more quickly, so he does not want to grow up for his own free. According to Treasure Island, “The night passed, and the next day, after dinner, Redruth and I were afoot again and on the board.

Therefore, adulthood is someone who accepts responsibility, makes independent decisions, and becomes financially independent and age doesn’t help people consider young individuals as adults because going through adulthood is different for everyone, so people mature at different time or

Baby boomers challenge the stereotypes about aging is that they do not want to retire at the age of 60 years old. They already know that the economy has changed and therefore money is not available for a lengthy retirement. The average baby boomer today is more active than a person would think that they are active. They take a important role in exercise and are open to new ideas. Examples of families in later life that dispel negative myths on aging is the fact that people are living longer.

No one in this society is allowed to be what they want in life. They aren’t allowed to have goals.

Sharon Olds’ poem, “Rite of Passage”, describes the mother’s concerns of the boys at her son’s birthday party. Through the author’s symbols, syntax, and imagery, the speaker asks the reader to contemplate how society expects young boys to be men by being violent and intimidating. In the poem the boys at the son’s party act like generals and are skeptical of each other and try to convince each other that they are the ‘stronger man’. The author’s detail furthers the tension between the tumultuous transition between child and adolescents.

Fostering a tolerant, inclusive and friendly environment for special needs children by creating activities which will bring them closer to the community they live in. The activities to which they will participate outside school such as visits at museums or other activities will make children visible in the community and contribute to a better understanding in society of disability and the role of community in integrating them in their daily life.

“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another” (Romans 12:10). Long ago, there was a time when courtesy emerged. During that time, civilization valued standards, morals, etiquette, and politeness. Certain regulations existed for speech, which ensured no one was confused or unnecessarily offended. There were also numerous laws regarding behavior, which made sure everyone’s needs were cared for and no one was harmed, insulted, or excluded.