The Giver Essay

The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a piece that had no limits when it comes to imagination and creativity. Lowry made sure not to make an boundaries that kept him from doing what he destined. Unlike many of the books, this book’s plot was so original. It makes one build up a burden of thoughts that may possibly be never answered. The theme itself aligns itself far away from cliche and one has to admire Lowry’s triumph as it is quite difficult to catch a theme that is so original. It also tells people that perfection is not the answer, it is the problem. The Giver also was capable of explaining the importance of these memories that we hold and our job to preserve them. The reality is very well placed although this is a science fictional story.…

What would you do if you were put in Jonas’s situation? This one of the many questions we find ourselves asking in the book the Giver, a dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. Not all books have to be non-fiction, and just because a book is realistic-fiction or a dystopian novel, does not mean it doesn’t have a point. There are so many instances in the Giver that we ask ourselves questions we might not think about while reading non-fiction. Who said that only non-fiction books can have a point?…

Dystopian novels and series is the type of fiction that interests many readers today, such as The Giver, by Lois Lowry. In this story, Jonas, the protagonist and narrator, is living in an orderly community in the future that runs on a strict set of rules. The book was published in 1993, and like any great book a film adaptation was filmed, and released about a year ago. Like any book and its film adaptation, there are some differences. In The Giver, some major differences included the age of…

The Giver was a very compulsive and noteworthy novel written by Lois Lowry, which had won a John Newbery Medal in 1994. It is the first book of a quartet, but each novel isn’t a continuation of the previous stories. The various genres for The Giver include young adult fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction and the infamous, science fiction. It’s setting takes places in an imaginary world in an unspecified year or time where pain, physical and emotional, doesn’t exist. Almost every person has no…

The book, ‘The Giver’ written by Lois Lowry is a futuristic novel about communities trying to achieve utopia. In their desire for this perfect world, a concept called Sameness is introduced which means that every aspect of their communities are uniform and monotonous. They are oblivious to concepts such as colours, true love, war, pain, hunger, freedom of choice and seasons. They live in a society where they are trying to achieve mechanical perfection. It is meticulously ordered, but…

In The Giver, everything and everyone within the community look the same, and everything revolves around sameness. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas receives the assignment as the next Giver, which represents the most honored assignment in the Community. Jonas learns the “rules” of the Receiver, and begins receiving memories of the past, such as weather and feelings. Jonas begins to experience pain and suffering, and learns that the last receiver, Rosemary asked to be released. A new child comes…

the right choice in leaving the community. Did his leaving produce more positive or more negative results? Jonas should not have left the community.The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it. The citizens of the community are now left with the pain and confusion getting all the memories at once. And the book literally says that he made the wrong choice. The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it.“Some afternoons The Giver sent him away…

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia ¨Is it worth giving up the experience of beauty and joy and love in order to end pain and suffering?¨ - The Giver In 1992, Lois Lowry visited her father at a nursing home in Virginia. Her father was losing his memory. When Lowry showed her father a picture of her sister who had died, her father had forgotten her name, and also his daughters death. Lowry's mother on the other had remembered everything about that devastating loss. This situation made Lowry wonder…

For example, Hannah and Jonas both experience pain that they couldn’t ever imagine happening in their everyday lives. Jonas experiences pain from a tragic war in one of the memories given to him by the Giver. In this memory, Jonas sees all the hurt men, using their lasts breaths to beg for their mother’s and families that aren’t around to hear. He realizes what great pain the Chief Elder is hiding from the rest of the community. As Chaya is in the world not familiar to her, there is a great…

an Authoritarian Society is upheld by maintaining control of the hierarchy. This is done in three ways: sorting the citizens, justifying where and why they were put there, and validating the decision. In the 2014 motion picture The Giver, they live in a post-apocalyptic Authoritarian world and follow the three rules. “What is most difficult for the state to control- emotions and desires- are to be brought under control by teaching that they should be sacrificed for a higher ideal (Spring,…