Is the book The Giver by Louis Bowery a Science Fiction Book?
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The author of The Giver is Lois Lowry.  It is set in an undisclosed time, but it is understood to be some time in the future in which society operates very differently.  People do not live with a traditional family, but rather a "family unit."  There is no love felt for these people with whom one lives, no emotions at all for anything really, but there is a mutual respect and understanding for one's "family."\n\nAt the age of 11 (if I remember correctly), boys and girls attend a ceremony at which they learn which trade they will be apprenticing.  The main character of The Giver is a young man who will take on a very special trade...\n\nAnd that is all I will say about that...except this one last thing: This is one of the best children's books I have ever read.  I teach fourth grade, and I recommend it to all of my students who have not yet read it.
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Absolutely.\n\nHarry Ppotter is a fantasy story and coming of age story that kids can relate to. there is no satanic message, it is all fun, and it really encourages kids to read. No other book in the past 30 years has goten more reluctant readers to pick up a book and read. We WANT TO ENCOURAGE this.
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The desire of ages, and the great controversy by ellen white. Also Believing God by Beth Moore. A trip into the supernatural by Roger Morneau, and The purpose driven life by some guy I can't recall.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry\n\nI have found 6 summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://litsum.com/giver/\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=1061\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=The+Giver+by+Lois+Lowry+\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary.\n\nLowry narrates The Giver in third person (“He said,” as opposed to “I said,” which is called first person), using a limited omniscient viewpoint (only Jonas’ thoughts and feelings are revealed). Through Jonas’ eyes, his community appears to be a utopia—a perfect place—that is self-contained and isolated from Elsewhere, every other place in the world.  More……..\n\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-113,pageNum-3.html\n\nhttp://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=347\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The giver is an amazing book! Its about a boy named Jonas who lives in a communtiy with no color or emotions.  Jonas is at the cermoney of 12 and what happends is the community of elders pick out the jobs.  Jonas gets the job as the giver and hes frighted because no one knows about this job.  Through out the chapter he gets to see all colors and gets his emotions.  Theres a baby named Gabe and his family takes him because he wont fall alseep.  Jonas can transform memories too gabe because they have pale eyes.  JOnas's family contains for people. They dont call it a family they called it a unit...well thats all i can say im so excited and idk why......you should read the book its facinatiing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Naw, I think it should be in the fantasy/sci-fi section. Come on, have you read the thing?How alternate reality can you get?
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Do your own homework.  They're both excellent stories... reading them will be enjoyable.  I'm partial to Bierce myself.
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poor fella! nobody's answered. there is a story, a complicated one for that matter. it ties into the bag-on-line adventures, a couple comic books written by singer claudio sanchez that are quite sci-fi in nature. umm... hit up the coheedandcambria.com links and see if you get some more in depth info. hope that helps and be prepared to be mindboggled :P
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I have read this book a couple of times and am looking forward to the movie.\n\nI think it is a great piece of fiction.  Sure, there are some truths in it, but for the most part it is pure fiction.  I have been to many of the sites that he pointed to in the book and some just aren't the way he stated.\n\nI think that it makes baseless claims about Jesus being married and having a child, and a few other things, but that is his perogotive as a writer of fiction.\n\nI am Catholic and am not in a hissy or upset or mad that the book was written, but I am upset and mad when people use it as a basis to trash my Catholic faith.  It is FICTION!  He says so himself!  But regardless of being true or not, I look at it this way, if Jesus was married and had a child, what better roll model for me, as a Catholic father to have?
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It's John Titor.\n\nJohn Titor was the name used for a purported time traveller from the year 2036 that posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/2001, making many ambiguous, but seemingly falsifiable, predictions about events in the near future and giving an account of his supposed native time period. Whether or not John Titor was a hoax seems to have been a topic of controversy on web-based paranormal discussion boards.\n\nThe postings claimed Titor to be a serving soldier who was assigned to a government time travel project. He was supposedly sent from 2036 back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he claimed was needed to "debug" various legacy computer programs in 2036. The postings also described various future events between 2000 and 2037, including World War III (predicted for 2015) followed by two decades of recovery.\n\nAlong with the prediction of World War III, another notable prediction is that of a Civil war in America, which was predicted to begin in 2004, around the time of the presidential election, and would escalate until 2008, which, according to Titor, "[is] a general date by which time everyone will realize the world they thought they were living in was over."\n\nAnother prediction was that 2004 would be the last year in which the Olympics would occur. This seems at odds with real-world events as the 2006 Winter Olympics began February 10, 2006. However there has been some argument as to whether the Winter Olympics was included in the prediction. Some have also speculated as to whether the predictions made by Titor were predicting only one course of the future, suggesting humans may have created an alternate future by going about things differently. This is an example of the many possible interpretations of Titor's seemingly specific predictions.
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Theme Analysis \n\n\nAlice Walker depicts Zora Neale Hurston's work as providing the \nAfrican-American literary community with its prime symbol of "racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings" (190). Appropriately, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, provides an enlightening look at the journey of one of these undiminished human beings, Janie Crawford. Janie's story - based on principles of self-exploration, self-empowerment, and self-liberation - details her loss and subsequent attainment of her innocence, as she constantly learns and grows from her difficult experiences with gender issues \nand racism in Their Eyes Were Watching God. \n\nAfter joyfully discovering an archetype for sensuality and love under the pear tree at age sixteen, Janie quickly comes to understand the reality of marriage when she marries Logan Killicks, then Joe Starks. Both men attempt to coerce Janie into submission to them by treating her like a possession: where Killicks works Janie like a mule, Joe objectifies her like a medal around his neck. In addition, Janie learns that passion and love are tied to violence, as Killicks threatens to kill her, and both Joe and Tea Cake beat her to assert their dominance. Yet Janie continually struggles to keep her inner Self intact and strong, remaining resilient in spite of her husbands' \nphysical, verbal, and mental abuse. Janie's resilience is rewarded when she finally meets and marries Tea Cake, who represents the closest semblance to her youthful idealism regarding love and marriage. \nAnother male figure playing prominently in Janie's life is the white man who raped her grandmother; her lineage determines, therefore, that Janie will look whiter than other black women. This fair complexion eventually attracts the ambitious Joe Starks, yet also contributes to Joe's objectification of Janie. Yet, outward appearances aside, Janie's identity takes shape in response to the white male tyranny that made her own birth possible. \n\nFor example, Janie's husband Jody paints his house "a gloaty, sparkly white," (44) humiliates the citizens of Eatonville in similar ways as the white man would, and forces Janie into the slavish servitude reflected by the identity-confining head rag he makes her wear (51). Yet, Janie fights Joe's tyranny by telling him off just before he dies in Chapter Eight, then reclaims her own identity by burning up "every one of her head rags" (85). Similarly, Janie encounters Mrs. Turner, Hurston's symbol of internalized racism, who doesn't "blame de white folks from hating [African-Americans] 'cause Ah can't stand 'em mahself" (135). Again, however, Janie remains true \nto herself as she continues to form her own identity by refusing to leave Tea Cake and class off as Mrs. Turner suggests. \n\nRather than self-destruct under the constant realities of racism and misogyny she receives throughout her life, Janie Crawford does the opposite at the close of Their Eyes Were Watching God. The novel's final image states what Janie does throughout the story - taking her difficult past in and growing stronger and wiser as a result of it. Author Zora Neale Hurston believed that freedom "was something internal….The man himself must make his own emancipation" (189). Likewise, in her defining moment of identity formation, Janie "pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see" (184). At the end of a novel focusing on self-revelation and self-formation, Janie survives with her soul - made resilient by continual struggle - intact.
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Definitely love.  If you have ever read the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, then u should understand.  If you have not read the book, it about a community where everything is in black and white, and there are no real feelings such as the forementioned.  All they feel is minor pain, which is immediately extinguished by "relief of pain pils" and happiness, which is not really that strong.  They kill people, calling it "release", and they don't even realize what they are doing.  After reading this book, I realized that the strongest emotion you could ever experience is LOVE.  the main character, Jonas, is shown through "memories", which are like virtual video clips that you can play in your head (kind of complicated, so i won't go into it) deep emotions such as pain, hunger, sadness, anger, grief, and love.  He realizes what he is missing out on and goes out in search of a better place, letting out the "memories" and spreading them out to the community.  This forces everyone to know how the world used to be, and helps them to face the real life, as well as enlightens them with the feelings of love and happiness.\n\nmy answer is LOVE.
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I don't really think so, although I'm not really speaking from a completely educated point of view here.  Asimov's Laws of Robotics, I'm not familiar with, but being a former Trekkie, I'd love to take a phaser blast at this one.  If you think about it, the prime directive was both a really really good idea and also kinda silly.  It prevented them from interfering in otherworldly affairs unless they had developed Warp capability.  In a way, it seems almost arrogant, like they're not good enough for us to get involved.  It's actually almost alleghorical.  Isn't it a widely accepted idea that the only prayer God will hear from a sinner is the sinner's prayer?  So basically God's "prime directive" prevents him from interfering with worldly affairs unless they've developed "warp drive" (a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.)  Not to mention Sci-Fi stands for Science Fiction, and Fiction is exactly what it is.
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I'm reading the book now.  It is about a supposed secret society that protected the secret that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalen and had a son.  The artist da vVnci was supposed to have been a member of that secret society, and hid clues about it in his paintings.\n\nRemember, it is a work of fiction.  Not a bad read, and makes you think, but still fiction.
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Remember "The Mule" in Isaac Asimov's Foundation books?  I'd like to be able to change people's minds.  I won't do it to everybody.  Just a handful of the crazies in the world that are threatening the rest of us.\n\n:)
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Orson Scott Card did a masterful job of effectively using basic literary techniques to create an excellent commentary on the conflict between necessity and moral codes.\n\nWhat specifically are you looking for? Your question is very vague.\n\nContinued: Ah, forshadowing and such.  Well, let's see...\nThink about how Graff's comments about Ender set up your expectations for his behavior. Look at Ender's brother and sister...and be aware that Ender is a mix of the two. However, you mostly only see his "nice" side, except when he defends himself. How does Peter's personality manifest in Ender's?  On another tack, how do you think the "game" played by the teams reflects the eventual battle setup with the Buggers? What about the private game played with the Giant? You could do an entire paper on the metaphor of the Giant, as a symbol either of the Buggers themselves and/or a symbol of Ender's internal demons.\n\nGood luck!
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The originator who is the semi-famous science fiction author "L. Ron Hubbard" started it.  Remember the movie "Battlefield Earth"?  it was based on one of his books.   He has been known to say "If you can create your own religion then you would be rich..."  his Dianetics seems to be a mixture of psuedo freudian pop science. It is a cult.