In the Giver, only the Giver and Jonas have memories. Since the community had no memories of war, hunger, pain, hatred, they were unable feel and know love, understand how precious life was. That was why even though father seems to be kind, he was still able to release that is kill a baby. Another important theme of The Giver is by choosing Sameness, they gave up their freedom to choose. In the community, they celebrated group birthdays, allowing only one kind of clothing, haircut, same weather, assigning spouses, jobs, children and names.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better its not” This famous quote by Dr. Seuss said in the movie “The Lorax” perfectly sums up the whole movie. The Lorax takes place in Thneedville with a young boy Ted who wants nothing more than to find a real tree to impress his crush. With helpful information from his grandma he visits a man named Once-ler, who once betrayed the Lorax, in the journey to find a real tree. This is when the Once-ler tells Ted the story of betraying the Lorax in the process of his invention called a “thneed” by cutting down all of his truffala trees. After the thneed fad disappeared because there were no more trees to cut down, the Once-ler distanced himself from the society because of the guilt he held.
Although Forrest is exposed to foreign situations and new types of people, his will to do what is right always prevails. As previously mentioned Forrest was taught not to question things- including the good morals and values his mother installed in him. Forest is the true innocence of the film. For example, he never knew his father, yet he never questioned or wondered about him. His innocence was to such an extreme, that he believed his mother when she said his father was on vacation.
The novel is about these boys growing up and changing at Devon. Throughout the novel each character undergoes some drastic change which cause them to lose their innocence and gain a foreign characteristic that they use to protects themself from the thing which made them lose their innocence. In A Separate Peace John Knowles shows that as time passes the purity of everything vanishes. For example, “..... or else, like Quackenbush, strike out at it always and everywhere, or else like Brinker develop a careless general resentment against is, or else, like Leper, emerge from a protective cloud of vagueness only to meet it, the horror, face to face, and give up the struggle absolutely”(194). This show that all of Gene’s friends, Gene being the antagonist and main narrator of A Separate Peace, lost their purity, their innocence by gaining a contrary Terry 2 characteristic.
The summer before their junior year in high school was very casual, as were the decisions that they made. One day after Gene and Finny were walking in the woods, and Gene noticed “Underfoot the healthy green turf was brushed with dew, and ahead of us we could see a faint green haze hanging above the grass, shot through with the twilight sun” (Knowles 18). The boys were happy and content with their lives at the moment. The feel of the setting reflects the liveliness of the boys through the earth, the beauty, and peacefulness of the grounds. Later that day when Finny and Gene were walking to the dining hall they stopped and; “…could hear cricket noises and bird cries of dusk, a gymnasium truck gunning along an empty athletic road a quarter of a mile away, a burst of faint, isolated laughter carried to us from the back door of the gym, and then over all, cool and matriarchal, the six o’clock bell from the academy building cupola, the calmest, most carrying bell toll in the world, civilized, calm, invincible, and final” (Knowles 18).
This can change the readers’ perspective, as they have a direct connection to the main character in the novel. The Catcher in the Rye is a valuable piece of literature that can help teach children across the globe the value of education even when failure seems inevitable. The main conflict in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden’s struggle versus society. The novel is based around Holden’s struggle to find his place in life among schools such as Pency Prep. Many young people across the world are in the same struggle, trying to find their place in life, and constantly struggling upstream against society.
In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the relationship between the two main characters, Amir and Hassan, mirrors the decay in the life of a pomegranate tree as the two character’s friendship must endure many struggles such as racial and cultural tensions and the effects of the loss of innocence in Hassan. Set in a war-torn modern day Afghanistan, the two children, whose friendship starts out as beautiful as the tree itself, starts on a steady decline, and with the rape of Hassan, is destroyed. The tree then reflects these happenings, and plays a key role in representing the kinship of the two boys throughout this novel. Even though the two boys come from different backgrounds, the pomegranate tree in Hassan and Amir’s friendship allowed them to treat each other as equals, and it played a key role in uniting the characters. Hassan and Amir were separated by class struggles, as Hassan was a Hazara, and this caused him to be looked down upon by the natives of Afghanistan.
Despite the elements of caste, the boys share happy times together and enjoy each other’s company. The tree is lush and blooming which is paralleled with the boys lives which are full of promise and its branches provide shelter for the boys away from the bullies and Amir’s dads domineering influence. At this point, the pomengranate is not crushed and this parallels thein other words, there is still a relationship between the boys. The boys closeness can be demonstrated in the film as they carve into the pomengranate tree “Amir and Hassan, the Sultans of Kabul” and a close up shot shows this. Through the pomengranate tree symbolises, we find out about the important idea of friendship vs. betrayal.
Section 7 Half Page Response I really enjoyed reading The Harmless People. Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed the challenge and interesting facts that I was able to work together about the Bushmen. I truly do believe that the Bushman have lives as full as anyone, especially mine. I have no need to go hiking across miles and miles of desert to hunt or gather my days’ worth of food. Nor need I even hunt or gather for anything, in that matter.
Charlie Marlow had an immediate interest in the Congo River and the wilderness that surrounded it. However, when he hears of Kurtz, the very successful manager of the Inner Station, nothing stirs his interest. One day, the accountant remarks, “In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz,” and after he sees that this causes nothing in Marlow’s eyes, he goes on to explain that “he is a very remarkable person”(Conrad 74). Kurtz still holds no intrigue for Marlow. It is only when he learns of the details of Kurtz’s stay in the jungle that he becomes fascinated with the man and now centers his journey specifically around finding him.