The Giver Essay

A Desirable Place “It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it” (Lowry). In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community is designed to be a utopia, where other people decide fate, and keep the citizens from discovering the truth. In this community, the previous memories are taken away, leaving every citizen the same, no love, color, music, or freedom. The article “Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith, is about a country that lives with endless disaster, sarvation, and it has a weak…

equally as thought provoking manner. It provokes questions about the importance of fitting in (or lack thereof), the ethics involved with murder, and how to prevent ourselves from becoming the emotionless humans in the book. The symbolism in The Giver is also very accessible to younger readers, such as the entire community being described as devoid of color, symbolizing the drabness of a world where everyone is forced to be the same. This in turn intensifies the messages and questions given…

In the book ‘The Giver’ we are first introduced to how life is in their society. They live in a very strict and rule tight society where everyone is the same and are expected to live up to specific standards in their life . They get assigned jobs that are most suited for them . They also have no emotions and live a very colorless and bland life . The main character Jonas is very different and gets chosen for a special assignment that not just any pupil can have he is given the assignment to be…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a science fiction story about a young boy named Jonas who learns about the world that has been hidden from his whole community. He is given an assignment to have the memories of the last world to be transferred to him from an old man called the Giver. When Jonas gets the memories he is horrified by what he sees. But, he more terrified by what he learns about his community. He wants to change the people and show them what they do is wrong. Lowry vividly illustrates…

elements that help build the plot. Two of these works are The Giver by Lois Lowry, a fictional book written about an ideal community; a utopia, and The Village, a movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan, in which presents the idea of having an ideal society kept away from what is known as the “modern world”. The blind following of traditions and the idea of difference or individuality in a character is common in both of these works. In The Giver, the theme of individuality is portrayed in Jonas as…

The Giver by Lois Lowry. The genre of The Giver is a novel. It’s a story about a boy named Jonas in a big community and how the Giver transfers his memories to Jonas, but the people in the community can’t have memories because the society doesn’t want the people to know everything. In the Giver the theme is the importance of memory because memories were given to him by the giver. Lois Lowry revealed the theme of memory by giving Jonas the main character a lot of important memories that Jonas…

has their different views of what a utopia can be but there are always to many challenges people will face trying to create a utopian society. There will never be a utopian society because there will be too much pain and suffering. Families in The Giver are almost fake they have no real connection or love in their families. In reality there is unconditional love no matter how bad the kid messes up. In a telling of feelings conversation one evening, Jonas asks“‘Do you love me?’’ and his parents…

When you read The Giver certain things will make more sense after you read this. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel that is based on a futuristic world with strict rules and beliefs. This being said, it makes this novel a Science Fiction novel. Many people can identify themes of The Giver. Here you will be given 2 examples of themes for the novel, The Giver. One theme of The Giver is living in a perfect world isn’t so perfect. A great piece of evidence can be found on page 122 when Jonas…

How do symbols in The Giver help the reader better understand the meaning of the novel? Provide at least 2 examples of text evidence to support your answer. The symbols in The Giver by author Lois Lowry help us greater comprehend the meanings she portrays in the novel. These symbols help us understand the individual characters and other plot elements in the novel, as well as the setting as well. For example, the symbol that Jonas, a boy in the age group of Twelve years of age, and…

is “the community” in which the story of The Giver written by Lois Lowry takes place. In this novel, lessons and morals concerning the real world are expressed along with the three main themes of the story -- compromise, the power of knowledge, and perspective -- through a story about a boy, in a very unrealistic world. First, one of the major themes in The Giver is compromise, which delivers the message that everything comes with a price. In The Giver, the citizens of the community (the…