Polio: Jonas Salk and the Spread of the Disease Its 1955 Jonas Salk just came back from the store. He came back with anything he could find. Right Know Jonas is in the middle of an apocalypse of zombies that spread around the world fast. Salk is in San Diego, California and right now he is the only survivor that he knows about that is still alive. When Salk came back from the store a group of zombies were chasing him and followed him to his house but as Salk was on his way home he attempted to lose them by running faster but as he ran more and more food fell which just attracted more zombies so the group got bigger and bigger as he ran. Salk could hear the zombies growling and roaming around to look for him. Salk was behind his house and …show more content…
He couldn’t stand the fact that at any moment he would be dead. Horribly as Salk watched the zombies growl and bang on the door he kept his momentum moving looking at the TV and back at the door worried and sweating from his hands. Every few seconds Salk had to take a second to wipe his hand on his blue jeans and his plain black shirt that he had been wearing for months. Salk took a moment to get his breathing back to normal by taking deep breaths and all of a sudden he saw everything going slow from the sound of the zombies to Salk looking back and forth. Minutes later Salk took a big deep breath and shot five times each time making his hand reflect back almost hitting him in the face. As he watched the bullets break through the two layered wood door and hit the zombies at an amazing …show more content…
Salk slowly put his gun down and watched as the smoke came out of the gun. All Salk could think about was that he just killed a person he just killed a person but after realizing what he had done he got himself back on track and one step at a time breathing heavily like if something was about to pop out. But as Salk walked up the last step he lifted his gun back up turned his shoulder and put his left shoulder on the door slowly he pushed on the door with little strength then more and more as time passed. After a while of pushing Salk had the door open and pointed his weapon straight to the floor where the zombies laid and made sure they weren’t moving. Salk pointed at the zombie that was twitching, pointed at its head and shot
What determines a society to be either a utopia or a dystopia? Would it be everyone following the rules? In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a new “Utopian” culture blossoms from the previously failed society. The Giver’s nation starts out with the intention of creating a utopian society; however, the strict limitations turn it into a dystopia where there are receivers, like Jonas, that hold the good and bad memories from the past culture. Jonas will experience great pain and great joy through his job as the Receiver instead of the whole community sharing the burden. The Giver’s world is a dystopia because of the following three reasons: they kill people that disobey the rules, they do not get to pick their own jobs, and, above all, they beat children if they do not use precise language.
Do you think that by having twins, the one twin you don’t like gets killed? In The Giver Jonas’s Community has no freedom nor choice in anything they do. They think that by taking away all this freedom that they could have a perfect community newsflash, nothing's perfect. Do you think the Giver is a Utopia or Dystopia? In my opinion The Giver is a Dystopia because they don’t have color, they release kids for bad reasons, and why the Giver is a Dystopia not a Utopia.
In The Giver, a narrative by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s father illustrates his feelings during his Ceremony of Twelve and Jonas tells about his own feelings concerning the forthcoming event. In the text it states, “‘But to be honest, Jonas,’ his father said, ‘for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be,’”(Lowry, paragraph 3). This segment of text elucidates the reason of Jonas’s father’s lack of surprise of his Assignment. As stated above, Jonas’s father was already certain of his Assignment, which he continues to explain to be a Nurturer. Jonas’s father explains that as a result of the love he showed all the Newchildren and the time he spent at
The Giver and Matched are both futuristic societies with a lot of rules. In The Giver the Elders choose their match as well as their children. Jonas starts loving Fiona but isn’t allowed and stops taking the pill. In Matched the officials choose their match but they can have their own children. Cassia is matched with Xander but also loves Ky and doesn't know what to do. In both story they all get jobs for the rest of their lives but in Matched they just call it vocations. Jonas gets the Receiver of memory and Cassia is supposed to be the sorter.
The zombie sequence has become extremely popular with the increase of novels and films recently produced. George Romero and Maximillian “Max” Brooks are two popular screenwriters focusing on zombie stories and horror films. George Romero is an American-Canadian film director and producer best known for his horror film Night of the Living Dead (Staff, 2012). Max Brooks is an American horror author and screenwriter best known for his novel and now film World War Z (Staff, 2012). Romero and Brooks are both zombie fanatics who have many similar interest in undead creatures and numerous differences as well. The ideal view preferred in society is fast-moving zombies. Both authors scripts reflect this preference. Romero and Brooks are both talented authors in showing others their beliefs in zombies.
He finds out that there are many survivors just like him who must fight each other and the zombies in order to survive. It is a TV series and most of the locations shown in this series are out in the environment and everything looks like a ruin. The roads have cracks in them and there are abandoned places. The survivors take refuge in a camp outside the city. There are several burned vehicles and burned vehicles which are shown on the road.
... middle of paper ... ... Works Cited Bateman, Daniel. A. “Dead Easy to Fight Zombies.” Townsville Bulletin 29 Mar. 2008: 441.
The Giver: Analysis of Jonas On the surface, Jonas is like any other eleven-year-old boy living in his community. He seems more intelligent and perceptive than many of his peers, and he thinks more seriously than they do about life, worrying about his own future as well as his friend Asher’s. He enjoys learning and experiencing new things: he chooses to volunteer at a variety of different centers rather than focusing on one, because he enjoys the freedom of choice that volunteer hours provide. He also enjoys learning about and connecting with other people, and he craves more warmth and human contact than his society permits or encourages. The things that really set him apart from his peers—his unusual eyes, his ability to see things change in a way that he cannot explain—trouble him, but he does not let them bother him too much, since the community’s emphasis on politeness makes it easy for Jonas to conceal or ignore these little differences.
An adaptation from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner, and based on a true account during the calamitous holocaust; Letters to Sala is an amazing story of a young girl's survival during wartime-Germany. In the span of five years, taking place in seven Nazi labor camps, and over 350 hidden letters written by this child. Sala Garncarz Kirschner kept her secret for over 50 years, concealing her immensely painful history in a Spill and Spell box. Everything changes when 67-year-old Sala reveals the cache to her own grown daughter, Ann, in 1991, as she prepared herself for triple bypass surgery. For nearly 50 years, she had shielded her 3 children from her Holocaust years; never talking about her Polish-Jewish family’s experiences during World
Bang! Bang! Bang! Jonas knocked on the door. A tall shadowed figure came to the door, it was the giver. He let them in and put them on a bed. Jonas started to ask questions to the giver, “Where are we.”
There are many traits to describe the dystopian protagonist, Jonas, in the story The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Even though there were so many to character traits to choose from, the best one, was that Jonas was strong. Jonas is strong because he accepted a position of being the Receiver of Memory, even though he was sitting there after everyone else was called, he also is able to take the memories in without applying for release or giving up his job, like Rosemary did, and lastly, he was strong enough to get Gabe and himself to the outer boundaries of the community without giving up. At first, in the beginning of the book when Jonas was at Ceremony of Twelve.
Perfection is something that people have been trying to achieve since the beginning of humankind. The Giver and Pleasantville are two of the many fictional societies that try to reach this so-called perfection. Both societies limit or eliminate differences and freedoms of their fellow citizens. This usually leads to the downfall of a society, making it a dystopia. The Giver has ideals such as no bad weather and hard decisions are made for the citizens while Pleasantville has no extreme weather. Issues like fire are practically non-existent. In both stories, the protagonists reject their society by breaking laws. The communities in The Giver and Pleasantville have their similarities and differences, making each society one-of a kind.
In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the reader is left with an uncertain ending about what happens to the main character of the story, Jonas, and his little friend, Gabriel. The plot of a story usually ends with a resolution, where the conflict of the story is resolved; however, this is clearly not the case with The Giver. It is not possible to be completely certain on the ending of this book by reading this story alone; however, it is possible to gather the evidence and assume what likely occurred in the ending of The Giver. One cannot be sure on what happened at the ending of The Giver; however, I believe that Jonas and Gabriel did not survive. I also believe that there could have been a more effective ending to the story; I highly disagree with Lois Lowry’s choice of leaving it up to the reader to decide what happens in the ending of the story, for it leaves too many unanswered questions. Overall, I did not enjoy the ending of The Giver due to its ambiguity.
“We are under attack!” Jimmy, our patrol man, yells leaping for the trench. A bullet pierces his skull before hits the ground leaving his body lifeless and bloody at my feet.
In recent years, there have been a plethora of film releases that pertain to the central topic of zombies. Typically “zombies thrive in popular culture during times of recession, epidemic and general unhappiness” (Drezner). Zombie films began around the 1920’s, and continue to fill modern day theatres. These films, although dramatized for entertainment, are something that truly could, and have, occurred. These films have been modernized, in order to fit the desires and demands of a modern-day audience, and therefore are tremendously different from their original zombie-film counterparts.