Lessons from The Giver Living in a world where nobody has memories, nobody knows about the past only The Giver and The Receiver know, would that really be a Utopian world? In this ¨Utopian” world, nobody can see color, everyone is the same, and no one has memories. Jonas becomes the Receiver of the community, and he receives all of the memories of the past. Later on in his Receiver career Jonas disagrees with this colorless, sameness, loveless world. Jonas sets out to change his community for the
so they can outperform other kids in their classes. The process of growing up can be gradual but when a transformations occurs abruptly and unexpectedly it can be difficult to handle. In the stories "The Lesson” written by West and Bambara's the authors prod their readers to consider what lessons young people should learn about the world's imperfections. Through the vivid lenses of the main characters we see how the children encounter and process injustice in the stories, and how the reader is to
There are always new lessons to be learned. From when we are just babies to when we are senior citizens, we are being taught these lessons. Most lessons are good for us, but some lessons are bad. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, both the good and bad lessons that the boys learn affect their decisions on the island. The good lessons, such as peace and survival skills, help the boys thrive on the island. The bad lessons, such as war and murder, bring chaos to the island. The positivity
Too Far There are many significant lessons in the story “Too Far” but we had to narrow it down to one. One significant lesson learned by Sean is how his own actions affect other people. This theme shows up throughout the story “Too Far.” In the beginning of the story, Sean does not care how his actions affect others. Later in the story, Sean begins to realize that he might be pushing Stanley too far. At the story’s conclusion, he realizes that he needs to change how he treats other people.
Leslie Bautista Prentice English 2 December 9, 2014 The Lessons Before Dying Jefferson learning to become a man wasn’t the only lesson taught in the story. Bothe Jefferson and Grant go through conflicts such as trust and mind set to end up learning something much bigger than a title of a man. These conflicts and lessons are still problems that are being fought. From racism to relationship with god, the novels big lesson could be fit to anyones daily life. Grant criticizes his society for most of
the reading “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara I feel what the narrator is trying to teach us is that money should be valued. You shouldn’t spend a lot of money on something that won’t last very long. That’s what the two younger girls in the story think as well. Their names are Sugar and Sylvia whose parents dress them nicely when there neighbor Miss Moore takes them out. Miss More is an African American lady who values the money even more then the girls. They react to the lesson Miss Moore was trying
In African American culture, there were lots of cultural traditions and storytelling from different families in different places. Ernest Gaines took these stories and had made them more meaningful for people to see how it was back in those times. Gaines, took these stories from family, friends, and neighbors, transforming them into some of the bestselling well known books. These stories from Gaines friends and family were very important because they played an important role in the history makings
Is it worth more than it’s cost? In the play The Piano Lesson by August Wilson there is an ongoing family feud between the two main characters Bernice and her brother Boy Willie. In order for Boy willie to get his land he needs some extra cash. However in order for Boy Willie to get the extra cash to buy his land he has to sell his family's grand piano. In Boy willies view point of the piano it is just a regular old piano to sell for quick cash, but to Bernice it is a priceless family heirloom that
neighborhood, real life lessons that would help shape who they became. Miss Moore takes them to a high end toy store, one in which they could never imagine how they could ever afford to pay for such extravagant toys. By going to the toy store, Sylvia learned a very hard cultural lesson, not everything in life is equal; you have the rich and the poor, the blacks and the whites, the educated and the undereducated, so on and so forth. Bambara captures Sylvia’s response to her hard learned lesson at the end of
describes it, “At seventy-eight, he was giving as an adult and taking as a child.” (P. 116 T). This means Morrie was able to give out all of his years of wisdom, but other people gave to him the care they would give to a child. This is an important lesson for all older adults to learn because most people develop some degree of dependency as they age. When people require help to do the simple tasks in life, they think they are worthless to society. However, learning to embrace dependency as Morrie did