humanties, giver essay outline
Name: Henry Toll Humanities
7th Grade The Giver
Outline for GIVER LITERARY ESSAY
Themes: Utopia/Dystopia
Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)
Grabber Statement (G):
Do you think you live in an imperfect world? Well a little boy from a supposed utopia thinks so in the giver by lois lowry.
Introduce Plot Summary (I):
Jonas is a boy who is given a special job when he was 12, that he was not expecting this job reveals things that he didn’t know or see. The job is the receiver of memories this job gives him new sensations and new sense that everyone should have. His new jobs takes away his ignorance alone which give him new friend but stops other friendships. After he learns about the cold hard truth about the his world
Thesis Statement (T):
Jonas society is an Imperfect world because it has utopian and dystopian Quality, like ignorance which is good and bad because people don’t know, pain, choose, love, or robellian.
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Paragraph #2: Thematic Analysis
Topic Sentence (T): In Jonas’s society they created a utopia by abolishing warfare, change, and pain.
Explanatory Sentence (E): Jonas’s society abolishes warfare and change by getting rid of big emotions and keeping everyone ignorant which leads to less rebellion. They got rid of pain when warfare and change was destroyed because there is little way to get a major or fatal injury.
Evidence (E):
It says that the giver has all the pain from the community on page 96: “You and I wouldn’t have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part, the Giver sighed. You’re right, he said. But then everyone would burdened and pained.” They got rid of big emotions and knowledge by taking their memories of it and giving it all to the giver of memories. The giver of memories has all pains and joys of life from every person’s memories, which means no one has any pains and knowledge.
Analysis (A):
Jonas doesn’t think it is a very utopian way to fix a problem because you are taking all pains of life away from the general public and putting them into one person. This is not good because you are making one person be tortured by other people’s memories. That is not very sustainable because if this person dies or leaves sameness then all the memories will come back to the public and put them in danger.
Concluding/ Transition (C):
Even though the people who choose to enter sameness were striving to make a utopian society. But I think their utopian society has started to turn into a dystopia.
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Paragraph #3: Thematic Analysis Continued
Topic Sentence (T):
Some ways that this society is a dystopia is that there is no diversity, change, or rebellion.
Explanatory Sentence (E):
There is no diversity: everyone looks alike and no one has their own personal beliefs. There is no change: there is no diversity and no inconveniences or big problems. There is no rebellion: there is nothing to rebel against and most people have never even thought of it in their wildest dreams.
Evidence (E): On page 81 it says “The Giver shook his head. “No, flesh isn’t red. But it has red tones in it. There was a time, actually-you’ll see this in the memories later-when flesh was many different colors.” This is important: this means everyone has the same colored skin and this make everyone look the same. Which gets rid of racism, but I think that is not the best way to get rid of racism: the problem could just start again if sameness fails.
Analysis (A):
Some other examples that there is no diversity or inconveniences or rebellion are: there is no color or difference in clothes in Jonas’s society, and as a result everything looks like other things. There are no hills or snow: they make problems for transportation even though they are fun and change the surroundings. There are also no living animals even though they are enjoying and improve your happiness, because they cause an inconvenience and slow you down. Finally there is no freedom of speech: that is rebellion and causes change even though this is a way to have new good ideas.
Concluding/ Transition (C):
All in all, I think that now that we have finished the book, that the whole class probably thinks this is a dystopia and not a utopia because of all of these rules.
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Paragraph #4: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)
Reflection on Thesis (R):
The giver world is still imperfect because bad things from our world our gone, but that their are cost for that like, love, knowledge, and enjoyment.
Overview of Main Points (O):
This essay has proven that this world is imperfect utopia because the leaders have taken away bad things in our world like knowledge of death, war, and pain. But the leaders have taken too much away from the people, because to get rid of these evils in our world you have to take away love and personal beliefs because these our what encourages hatred. When you live by one thing then you might believe what you do is moral even if it’s genocide, torture, or terrorism.
An examples of a person how did this is Genghis khan because he was mad at a group of mongolia who fled across asia and genghis khan though since he was made he killed many groups of peoples.
Concluding Sentence– Comparisons and Connections (C):
All in all their is no such thing as a perfect world because people have their own opinions. But a question remains for you is america a perfect world? What would you change about our country to get it as close as possibly?