Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Name an occupation in the community, which is mentioned in The Giver, for which math would be inportant.

In The Giver, the occupation of Giver
would be benefited greatly by abilities in math of all levels. The Giver's task, as he
explains to Jonas, is to remember and transmit the memories "of the whole world." His
apartment is lined with books. Though the first memory the Giver transmits to Jonas is
the pleasurable and painful memory of snow, the books are archive of some of the world's
greatest knowledge, greater than snow but not more important. The books contain the
ideas of philosophers and mathematicians, for example, Euclid who wrote the first
treatise on geometry, Copernicus who wrote a description of the cosmos that challenged
Aristotle's description, and Newton's treatise on mechanical, or physical mechanics
called the Principia. A knowledge of and an ability with math would
certainly be important to the Giver as he remembers and transmits these and other great
philosophical and mathematical works.

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