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Explain thoroughly and specifically how eliminating and/or limiting choices will cause the citizens to have a better or worse life experience. Commentary: Provide clear analysis as to why eliminating and/or limiting choices either improves or deteriorates the citizen’s life experience. A QUOTE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE YOUR ONLY EVIDENCE.Ģ. Supporting Evidence comes from paraphrasing information from the book about the role and effect that eliminating and/or limiting choices has on the community.Ī) TOPIC SENTENCE: By depriving/protecting the citizens of/from choices, the creators of Jonas’s society made their community an improvement / a deterioration from our world.ī) ONE DIRECT QUOTE: Use one direct quote to illustrate your points from the Supporting Evidence. Thesis Statement: In one or two sentences, state your opinion by taking ONE side of the issue. Start with an attention-grabbing sentence to introduce the issue of creating a perfect society. The Final Draft must not exceed two pages and must not be shorter than 1 ½ pages. Rough drafts must be revised and edited when turned in with the Final Draft.ĪLL (rough and final) Drafts will be color coded, typed with 10 or 12-point font, and follow all other Writing Guidelines.

Notice the obvious differences between a Persuasive structure versus a Literary Analysis structure. Persuasive Essays can be done in different ways, but you are asked to follow the outline that I have provided. Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay in which you decide whether the society in The Giver (which has eliminated and/or limited choices and desires) is an improvement from ours in 2009 or a deterioration. Did the creator’s of Jonas’s community truly improve society as we know it today?

To most kids in our society, the changes in Jonas’s world would be difficult to accept because we in America value our freedom to choose and to voice our desires. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature.

Assignment Sheet: The Giver Persuasive Essay