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God of Thunder made a very small rain shower in the corner of the kitchen floor. Keep an eye on him.
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The cold rain continued to fall. He remembered, suddenly, how Jean's hair curled and framed her face when it was damp. In contrast to the horrible stench that was growing stronger by the minute, he remembered the fragrance of her when she had kissed him goodbye. It seemed so long ago.
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Gio day , qua nhung ki uc , cau da thay duoc nhung dai duong , ho tren nui va nhung dong suoi chay roc rach qua rung ; va cau nhin thay con song rong quen thuoc ben duong da khac di . Cau thay tat ca anh sang , mau sac , lich su ma no chua dung va mang theo trong dong nuoc troi lang le ; va cau biet rang co mot Noi Khac tu do no xuat phat, va mot Noi Khac no dang chay den.
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The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; other hours of the day were so carefully regulated.
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He's changing, isn't he?" Matty replied, startling himself, because he had not spelled it out in his mind before, had not said it aloud yet, yet here it was, and he was saying it to Jean. He felt an odd sense of relief. Jean began to cry softly. "Yes," she said. "He has traded his deepest self."
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Artist?' Thomas suggested. 'That's a word. I've never heard anyone say it, but I've read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who makes something beautiful. Would that be a word?
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Maybe it is something that artists have," she said, liking the sound of the word she had just learned. "A special kind of magic knowledge."
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There are only three weeks left, Matty. After the border closes it will be too late. She won't be allowed to come. You must bring her here before that happens. "If you don't, Matty, I will never see her again." "It always seems strange to me when you say 'see.'" The blind man smiled. "I see in my heart, Matty."
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Ravaged all, Bogo tabal Timore toron Totoo now gone...
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loss
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That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.
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grief
kindness
sacrifice
death
redemption
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and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.
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metaphor
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somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed,
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But what wisdom do you get from hunger?" Jonas groaned. His stomach still hurt, though the memory had ended. "Some years ago," The Giver told him, "before your birth, a lot of citizens petitioned the Committee of Elders. They wanted to increase the rate of births. They wanted each Birthmother to be assigned four births instead of three, so that the population would increase and there would be more Laborers available." Jonas nodded, listenin..
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It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!
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But perhaps it was only an echo.
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eating together as always: Lily chattering away, Mother and Father making their customary
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Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.
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I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention.
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Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none."
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but it sounded very nervous. "Here! Here's a ransom note, right here on the desk! You read it, Mom. I can't bear to. It says steak, right at the top. They'll return Sam if we give them steak. Read it, and then call the FBI immediately." "That's my grocery list," Mom said." --
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A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera has been composed and performed. And soon
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It's Peter the goat-herd," murmured Tim in astonishment, "right out of Heidi! We can teach him to read and write, and then we'll all smile and hug and say religious things!"
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No. But why would I go back? I had found a home here, the way everyone has. That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.
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She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The
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IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, "Please sir, might I have some more?" would be ignominious, except that he isn't shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ignominious illustrations. They are shamefully weak because the person who drew them is not an artist."
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She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well.
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they were artists, the three of them. Makers of song, of wood, of threaded patterns. Because they were artists, they had some value that she could not comprehend. Because of that value, the three of them were here, well fed, well housed, and nurtured.
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Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. There was fear of beasts.
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There were more than usual this time. "It's a big group," Matty whispered to the blind man. "Yes, I can hear that it is. I wonder if somehow they have begun to hear rumors that we may close."
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Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed." "Is it true?" Alsy shrugged. "Likely not. But if the person thinks it, then the thinking eases the pain."
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Jonas, listening, thought suddenly about the bridge and how, standing there, he had wondered what lay Elsewhere. Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lives a being who looked exactly the same?
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But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had--well, this was the part that he couldn't adequately understand--the apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about..
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Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
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philosophy
wisdom
power
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mine." Kira had stood silently, embarrassed but proud, as the guardian examined the threading she had done. He made no comment, simply nodded and returned the small piece to her. But his eyes had been bright with interest, she could see. Each year following, he had asked to see her work. Kira always stood at her mother's side, never touching the fragile ancient cloth, marveling each time at the rich hues that told the history of the world. ..
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the history of Denmark has much to teach us all.
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Selected for what?" Claire had never heard of such a thing before. Rolf raised an eyebrow and shrugged. "I don't know." "Didn't she say?" "Yes, but I didn't understand what she was talking about. Did any of you?" He looked around at his coworkers at the table. "Not really," Edith said. "It was important, though. It had to do with the Giver and the Receiver." "Whoever they are," someone murmured. "Yes, it sounded really important," Eric agre..
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I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?"
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perseverance
taking-risks
innovation
determination
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Actually," the chief guardian said in a calm voice, "you have no rights at all. But I am going to tell you the decision so that there will be no misunderstanding. "The orphan girl Kira will stay. She will have a new role." He gestured toward the Singer's robe, still spread out on the table. "Kira," he said, looking at her, "you will continue your mother's work. You will go beyond her work, actually, since your skill is far greater than hers..
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Frie Danske
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In the new light, Gabe could see that the weapons had changed. They were broken toys, bits of rusted tin, as if a careless child had left them out in the rain.
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Matty had felt this sensation--the
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Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.
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rule,
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He wondered what lay in the far distance where he had never gone. The land didn't end beyond those nearby communities. Were there hills Elsewhere? Were there vast wind-torn areas like the place he had seen in memory, the place where the elephant died?
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