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In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everyone is expected to be similar and if not the same. The main character Jonas doesn't want to be the same. Jonas wants to be different and thinks everyone should be their own person. The song King of Anything by Sara Bareilles would be the perfect theme song because it talks about how she doesn't want to be someone she doesn't want to be. Also in the song she is standing up to someone who is trying to change her and in the book that is what's happening to Jonas in his community.

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King of Anything - Sara Bareilles (with lyrics)

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enjoy & favorite. - love this song. no copyright in infringement intended.

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In The Giver by Lois Lowry the theme is sameness. A song that relates to this theme is F**k the Police by N.W.A. In the song the group talk about the black community and how a young black person “...got it bad ‘cause i'm brown…” The song talks gives us a glimpse of the harsh reality of the world. In the book everyone is the same, people don't see color so they one person can’t and won’t think they are better than someone based on their color. This is much more peaceful than the real world. In the world some people stereotype things. An example of this is how police think that every teenage age african person with “...a little bit of gold and a pager…” has these things because  “... every n***a is selling narcotics…” In The Giver the citizens don't have this problem. They are one community and they don't face discrimination and racism because everyone is “the same”. Sameness can be a good and bad thing. In this case it would be good because violence and discrimination isn’t a good thing.

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In Lois Lowry's The Giver the theme family is shown throughout the book. Jonas learns about love and everything changes when he asks his family if they love him. J. Cole made a song called 4 you eyez only and it is about his unborn daughter. J. Cole says that he can relate to his daughter can relate to him when he dies because J. Cole’s dad also died from being shot up by bullets and drugs.”so I know how you feels.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthfurNTcsU

In Lois Lowery's The Giver a main theme throughout the book is family. Jonas’s community's  idea of family is much different than our idea of family. In our families we have houses and we have many brothers or sisters and we have grandparents and other relatives. In the book Jonas calls his house a dwelling and every dwelling is the same in the community. Instead of calling his mother, father, and sister a family he calls them his family unit. In the song “We are family” by Sister Sledge, they talk about how they are a family because they are all together. “We are family, I got all my sisters with me” is the chorus of the song and it shows that having your sisters and family with you is what makes it a true family. In the community that Jonas lives in, they are trying to take out all the special differences that makes our families unique. His community always has the same population because each family unit has a girl and a boy. In our town people have larger families and we like the difference in our families. We don’t like sameness and that is the family theme in the giver. Jonas’s community is all the same.

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In The Giver by Lois Lowery, I chose family. This is because throughout the book Jonas learns that family does not need to be by blood to love someone. Jonas asked his parents if he loved him and they replied by saying, “We enjoy you”. They could not even get the words out because there was no meaning behind it for them. Jonas parents have not experienced the love he has seen and been with in his memories. When Jonas becomes a twelve he learns to cope with the strange rules that the giver has applied to him. Throughout the book Jonas learns about the importance of family even if they are not related to you. I chose the song “Home” by Phillip Phillips. In the song one line says,”if you get lost, you can always be found.” This shows me that Jonas and this song have a lot in common. Jonas may be apart from the Giver but he know that they always will be together even if he can't see him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoRkntoHkIE

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In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Ignorance vs. knowledge is really the main idea of the book because the Giver holds all the knowledge and memories and the people in the community are ignorant to it all. The elders hide all of the knowledge and memories so people are the same in every way so that they can have the perfect utopia. In the song “The Knowledge” by Janet Jackson one of the lines say “What you don't know can hurt you bad” which is true because when Jonas found out what happened when someone was released he was mad at his father and elders. He was mad at his dad for killing the babies and the elders for hiding all of the information from the community. The song is like the book because they are both about wanting more knowledge like the Giver having all the knowledge and giving it to Jonas and the song talks about knowledge and ignorance hence The name The Knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1NGu4kHf8

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Lois Lowry's book, The giver, shows that you must always stick by your friends and family no matter what. You should always trust the ones close to you. The song from High School Musical, “we’re all in this together”, perfectly represents The Giver. In the movie, he asks a lot of people to trust him, including Fiona. Closer to the beginning, he wants to demonstrate his learning to his friends, and he asks for their trust. Because Fiona trusts him, she has a fun time. This connects to the song because they stick by him, in order to help him, demonstrating togetherness. Later in the movie Jonas asks her to stop taking the morning injections, so she can experience major feelings. She instills a lot of trust, and gains strong feelings for Jonas. In the book and movie, Jonas and the Giver place a lot of trust on each other when forming their plan to expose the memories. Jonas must trust that the Giver is right about the “fence” being out there, and that he will have gained enough courage and strength to get there. The Giver has to have faith in the fact that Jonas can make it to the exit point. They depend on each other, and standing together, against something you don’t believe shows their strong bond. After going through their plan, Jonas trusts his instincts, by stealing Gabe, he needs to trust that he can raise Gabe alone, and be a good influence. In the movie, farther into Jonas and Gabe’s journey, they run into Jonas’ best friend, Asher. Asher was on a mission to destroy Jonas, and prevent the memories from spreading. When found, Jonas asked Asher to trust that what he was doing, was for the benefit of their community, to help them see what’s out there. Asher had believed in Jonas for so long that he went against strict orders to help a friend. Though High School Musical may not seem like it has any connection, both HSM and the Giver show that you should stick by what you believe in, and stick by friends.

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High School Musical - We're All In This Together

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In Lois Lowry’s book, The giver, it expresses the importance of knowledge and how everything changes when you grow up. The main character, Jonas, leaves his community and releases the memories of the world to the community which has been isolated from them for so long. I chose the song “Don’t you worry child” which very closely matches some parts of Jonas’ story. The song begins with the lines, “There was a time/ I used to look into my father’s eyes/in a happy home”. This connects almost exactly to Jonas because in the beginning of the book he is living happily with his family because he has no idea the world he is missing out on. Another strong similarity between the two is the song says, “Now the memory’s on the wall/i hear the songs/from the places where i was born”. When Jonas crosses into elsewhere and releases the memories he claims to have been able to hear music in the distance or, “the places where he was born”? Finally the last line that shows a connection between the book and the song is “I met a girl of a different kind.../we were so young/i think of her now and then/i still hear the songs”. This final line I would say is representing Jonas and Fiona’s relationship and once again how he heard the music when he crosses into elsewhere. Both the song, “Don’t you worry child” and the book, The Giver, explain the importance of growing up and how everything can change with time.

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Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child (Official Video)

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In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the theme of sameness is conveyed. When Jonas learns about all of the secrets that the community is hiding from them, he trades in his loyalty for rebellion. This makes Jonas feel betrayed and confused as to why the Elders wanted to do this. In order to created their “perfect” society, they deprived the citizens of the things that make them stand out and special. Once Jonas learns the truth, he can’t trust those in charge anymore, and makes the conclusion that taking matters into his own hands would be more beneficial to the community. In the theme song of Pretty Little Liars, a line mentions that “Got a secret can you keep it,” which is similar to what the Elders did to Jonas’ world. The Committee of Elders greatly rely on the lack of knowledge that the citizens have of the real world in order to them to happy. The source of his rebellious thoughts is when he finds out that he can lie and starts receiving the memories. In Pretty Little Liars, the girls depend on the secrets that they have to remain unknown so that they can have the best and perfect life. This belief is very similar to that of the Elders. But as the secrets start to become not so secret, things start to unravel and become out of control. As a result, their secrets are what caused their not so perfect life, and a bunch of chaos. When Jonas found out about the truth behind the lies that he had always been told, he wanted to leave and then instill the same chaos within the people once they got their memories back.   https://youtu.be/vyi4oMjVauk

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Lois Lowry’s The Giver explores the concept of memory while giving Jonas the opportunity to experience different memories. Memories are a very important thing because once they are made they are usually not forgotten and sometimes they are the only thing left. I chose the song “live like you were dying” by Tim McGraw because it is saying that you never know what is going to come. Jonas has to experience many bad and good memories. Even though some of the memories that Jonas receives are bad, he still decides to receive them because he knows that there is not always good. Jonas realizes that he can’t just receive the good memories because he needs to learn the bad and hard stuff to really capture the feeling of memories. Tim McGraw says “someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.” I chose this quote because the giver tells Jonas that these memories are going to be painful and aren’t going to be good but Jonas still decides to receive them because knows that it’s his assignment know and no one else but the Giver has these memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EbmIeck9uc

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In the book, The Giver by Louis Lowry it shows the concept of0 how they control everyones actions. They attempt a utopia or perfect world thats all the same. Everyone in the community is controlled to all be the same, unable to realize what makes them special. The song, "You don’t own me," by G eazy relates to the Giver by connecting the theme of how someone controls who you, treating you like a object and not expressing your differences. The song talks about how this one person controls them and acts like they “own” them. “ You don’t own me, i’m not just one of your many toys.” In the Giver, the community acts like they are all objects by enabling them to be different and controlling their actions in everyday life.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/grace/youdontownme.html

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          Ben Von Halle                                                    In Lois Lowry's book The Giver memories are a very important part of the book. Jonas wants to have everyone experience the incredible memories like sledding and snow that, as the giver he can experience.In the book Jonas learns more and more about memories in the begining he thinks all memories are good like sledding and then finds out memories like war and pain also exist. In the song Miley cyrus sings about good and bad memories like pain and happiness just like Jonas experiences. In song I choose “Wherever I Go" Miley Cyrus & Emily Osment memories are also a very important part of the book. I choose this song because its main topic is memories and how they can be good and bad. "Ive always got the memories"-miley cyrushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTl6McMBU8

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          Ben Von Halle                                                    In Lois Lowry's book The Giver memories are a very important part of the book. Jonas wants to have everyone experience the incredible memories like sledding and snow that, as the giver he can experience.In the book Jonas learns more and more about memories in the begining he thinks all memories are good like sledding and then finds out memories like war and pain also exist. In the song Miley cyrus sings about good and bad memories like pain and happiness just like Jonas experiences. In song I choose “Wherever I Go" Miley Cyrus & Emily Osment memories are also a very important part of the book. I choose this song because its main topic is memories and how they can be good and bad. "Ive always got the memories"-miley cyrushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTl6McMBU8

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One theme I think that Lois Lowry shows in her book the giver is to live the life you want to live to the best of your abilities. I also think when Jonas was escaping she was trying to show that you should take all the risks necessary to make your life the way you wanted it. At first Jonas lives life the way the community wants him. After he has had enough living a regular life and will risk his to make his life better for himself and Gabe. This reminds me of the song live like we're dying by Kris Allen. In the Song he talks about how you only have one life to live and how if you don't like how life is not going the way you want you have to do something about it before it's too late. ¨You have to live like you're dying¨. This is what Jonas was thinking and a major reason it left. He also says ¨You have to turn it all around and throw it all away¨. This is exactly like what Jonas did when he turned his life around and through the rest away.

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One theme I think that Lois Lowry shows in her book the giver is to live the life you want to live to the best of your abilities. I also think when Jonas was escaping she was trying to show that you should take all the risks necessary to make your life the way you wanted it. At first Jonas lives life the way the community wants him. After he has had enough living a regular life and will risk his to make his life better for himself and Gabe. This reminds me of the song live like we're dying by Kris Allen. In the Song he talks about how you only have one life to live and how if you don't like how life is not going the way you want you have to do something about it before it's too late. ¨You have to live like you're dying¨. This is what Jonas was thinking and a major reason it left. He also says ¨You have to turn it all around and throw it all away¨. This is exactly like what Jonas did when he turned his life around and through the rest away.

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In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is different than everyone in the community. I think one theme is alienation.He knows things that no one else knows about, so he feels very different. Once people becomes the new giver, he feels very alienated. “ And there's nothing wrong with me

This is how I'm supposed to be

In a land of make believe

That don't believe in me” Jesus of Suburbia – Greenday.

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Lois Lowery's The Giver shows a lot about the importance of being different. In Bliss everyone is living a very similar life. Only small differences exist in the community. Jonas seems to be born ¨different¨ and he gets chosen as The Receiver of Memory. He learns about Sameness in his community and what life used to be like, filled with many differences and uniqueness. I chose the song ¨Born This Way¨ by Lady Gaga. This song represents that people are born to be different, and she sings that she doesn't want to be the same as others. Jonas also wants to share his knowledge of being different, so I think that the two connect to each other well.

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In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry has included sameness throughout the community for everyone so that everyone is equal. If a baby is not in their healthy standers they have to release them. Boys have same cloths, and girl also do. In the song Stressed out by Twenty one pilots. It kinda has this one line where they say “It’d be like my brother, ‘cause we have the same nose, Same clothes homegrown a stone’s throw from a creek we used roam” this show sameness where the had the same treatment.

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In the Giver by Lois Lowry the message is that when you get older, things change. When Jonas becomes a twelve, he has to become an apprentice to the Giver himself, and take all the memories in. In Jacob Sartorius’ Hit or Miss, one of the lyrics is “I heard that life gets hard when you're older, And the fun stuff's just for kids”, It states that when he becomes the Giver’s apprentice, that life is going to get harder. It also states that because he has to take in the memories from the Giver, he can no longer go out and play, because “the fun stuff’s just for kids”. Another lyric from the song states that “So let's not worry about tomorrow” meaning that Jonas, doesn’t know what tomorrow will bring. The Giver might be in pain the next day and Jonas will get it off, or Jonas will have to take pain the next day.

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Jacob Sartorius - Hit or Miss (Official Music Video)

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in the book the giver by Lois lowry memories are extremely important in the community and part of the book. I chose the song history by one direction ( i hate this band but its the only song i could find) because they look back on their memories with each other when they made mistakes and when they ad a really fun time with each other just like what Jonas did looking back at the good and bad memories of the giver. like in the song it says all of the memories that they had like them going on tour and times they went out together. But it also mentions the hardship memories like rumors and drama in their lives. They mention that ¨without memories its just a lie¨ I think this book and the song represent that it is good to look back on memories and remember all of the good and bad times of your life.

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EricThe song is the Duck song. The theme is “alienation from community”. In The Giver, Jonas is alienated from the community because of his role as the Receiver and because he is questioning the rules of the community. In the Duck song, the duck (Which is enough reason for alienation in the world of men) is asking for grapes at a lemonade stand. Part of the duck song goes like this:"Hey! (bum bum bum) Got any grapes?The man said,"Look, this is getting old.I mean, lemonade’s all we’ve ever sold.Why not give it a go?"The duck said, “How 'bout, no.”This demonstrates alienation from community because he's a duck, and he's questioning rules by asking for grapes at a lemonade stand and refusing to accept that. Also, he's pissing off the lemonade guy. In the Giver, Jonas is alienated from the community because of his role as the Receiver, meaning he can't really talk to anybody about his job. Thus his isolation. In both the song and story, both characters are alienated from the community. One is a duck questioning reality, one is a teenage boy facing isolation from his community because of his job. Both are different, but both are alienated from their communities.

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EricThe song is the Duck song. The theme is “alienation from community”. In The Giver, Jonas is alienated from the community because of his role as the Receiver and because he is questioning the rules of the community. In the Duck song, the duck (Which is enough reason for alienation in the world of men) is asking for grapes at a lemonade stand. Part of the duck song goes like this:"Hey! (bum bum bum) Got any grapes?The man said,"Look, this is getting old.I mean, lemonade’s all we’ve ever sold.Why not give it a go?"The duck said, “How 'bout, no.”This demonstrates alienation from community because he's a duck, and he's questioning rules by asking for grapes at a lemonade stand and refusing to accept that. Also, he's pissing off the lemonade guy. In the Giver, Jonas is alienated from the community because of his role as the Receiver, meaning he can't really talk to anybody about his job. Thus his isolation. In both the song and story, both characters are alienated from the community. One is a duck questioning reality, one is a teenage boy facing isolation from his community because of his job. Both are different, but both are alienated from their communities.

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Charmie Galvin (Patrick Copied me just ask Eric) 

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Charmie Galvin (Patrick Copied me just ask Eric) 

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In Lois Lowry's book The Giver, we see a dystopian world through the eyes of a boy named Jonas. This world is very different from our own in key ways such as the way things are said and how families are put together. Jonas has two friends named Fiona and Asher. In the movie version, Jonas has very strong feelings for Fiona. This is also hinted at in the book when Fiona is the reason for the stirrings in Jonas. In both the movie and book, Jonas and Fiona have a special connection, but are not allowed/can’t/won’t be together. In this community, Women are pared to men at random, and then they marry. This reason keeps them from being happy, which is something that is unknown to the community. I feel that the song Sweatshirt by Jacob Sartorius (2016)  describes their relationship perfectly. Jacob sings about his love for a girl, but she might not be ready for love. This is just like Jonas and Fiona because Jonas is having all these new emotions and thinks he might “Love” Fiona, but she doesn't understand what love is. “You know that I can always be that guy/ you can think about me all night long/ but i think you need something to think of me/ Something that will keep you warm and show you we can be/ more than/ (...) Just this/ So baby if you are not ready, for my kiss/ Then you can wear my, sweatshirt” (Jacob Sartorius) I believe that sweatshirt is a metaphor for friendship. Fiona doesn't feel things the way Jonas does. She doesn't understand emotions or colours. Jonas thinks that if he can’t be there for Fiona as a boyfriend, he can be there for her as a best friend. Even if he want to be more than just friends. I ship it and I think Lois Lowry would agree with my song choice for Jonas and Fiona’s relationship

https://youtu.be/IvxRsDpXPGo

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Lois Lowry's book, The giver, shows that you must always stick by your friends and family no matter what. You should always trust the ones close to you. The song from High School Musical, “we’re all in this together”, perfectly represents The Giver. In the movie, he asks a lot of people to trust him, including Fiona. Closer to the beginning, he wants to demonstrate his learning to his friends, and he asks for their trust. Because Fiona trusts him, she has a fun time. This connects to the song because they stick by him, in order to help him, demonstrating togetherness. Later in the movie Jonas asks her to stop taking the morning injections, so she can experience major feelings. She instills a lot of trust, and gains strong feelings for Jonas. In the book and movie, Jonas and the Giver place a lot of trust on each other when forming their plan to expose the memories. Jonas must trust that the Giver is right about the “fence” being out there, and that he will have gained enough courage and strength to get there. The Giver has to have faith in the fact that Jonas can make it to the exit point. They depend on each other, and standing together, against something you don’t believe shows their strong bond. After going through their plan, Jonas trusts his instincts, by stealing Gabe, he needs to trust that he can raise Gabe alone, and be a good influence. In the movie, farther into Jonas and Gabe’s journey, they run into Jonas’ best friend, Asher. Asher was on a mission to destroy Jonas, and prevent the memories from spreading. When found, Jonas asked Asher to trust that what he was doing, was for the benefit of their community, to help them see what’s out there. Asher had believed in Jonas for so long that he went against strict orders to help a friend. Though High School Musical may not seem like it has any connection,

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In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry's, memory and love is a big topic. In their community love is a very strong word that they are not really supposed to use. In the Giver they are not allowed to love anyone. They do not get to pick to pick who they marry. In the song Photograph by Ed Sheeran all he talks about is love. He says ¨loving can hurt sometimes.¨ In the book when Jonas experience the memory of love it is hard for him. Jonas goes home and asks his parents if they love him. Jonas parents said that they enjoy him because using the word love was a precision of language. Love is the memory that made Rosemary the Giver's daughter release herself. Rosemary took the memory of love harder than the memory of war. Also, in the song Ed Sheeran says ¨we keep this love in a photograph we make these memories for ourselves, where our eyes are never closing and hearts are never broken.¨ In Jonas community there life is kind of like a photograph. Everything has to be perfect and organized. To make sure that there hearts are never broken they have to take these pills, to stop there feelings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwXNdTYtKEY

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In Lois Lowry’s book The Giver memories are a very important part. Memories from many different times are shared to Jonas. I chose the song the story of my life by one direction. I chose this song because Jonas is receiving memories and in this song they are talking about all their old memories of their life. It also shows some hard memories and some very happy memories. Just like Jonas has to receive some sad and painful memories and some very happy memories. ‘Written on these walls are The colors that I can't change” I chose this quote because all the memories are written in the walls just like the giver of memories holds all the memories of their community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TE_Ys4iwM

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Jonas's Struggle Against the "Nowhere Man" -Ms. Kennedy

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Jonas's Struggle Against the "Nowhere Man" -Ms. Kennedy

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Lois Lowry's The Giver explores the concept of community alienation through the eyes of its main character, Jonas. While initially Jonas is comfortable within the confines of his well ordered and sterile community, he eventually learns that there are significant human elements of life missing. In a similar way, The Beatles' 1966 song "Nowhere Man" addresses the limitations of a robotic, lifeless existence. John Lennon laments, "He's a real nowhere man / [...] Doesn't have a point of view / Knows not where he's going to / Isn't he a bit like you and me?" (Lennon-McCartney). The subject of his song is a "nowhere man" who lacks personality and is isolated from a purpose-driven life. Furthermore, McCartney asks, "Isn't he a bit like you and me?", implying that this "nowhere man" is the product of a greater societal problem. Jonas recognizes the same failing in his community after he starts to gain memories from the Giver. Eventually, he identifies the "telling of feelings" (5) ritual as a superficial stand-in for the true pain and happiness of living. Just like the "nowhere man", Jonas's family "just sees what they want to see" (Lennon-McCartney). The Beatles and Lowry use different mediums, but their message is the same. As members of society, we must be critical of efforts to keep us alienated from the messy (but ultimately most human) parts of life.

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The Beatles   Nowhere Man 1966    YouTube