The Giver Essay

The different types of language that people use in everyday life is related to their culture and even maybe their religion. The language that Lois Lowry used for the book “The Giver” is different. A weird kind of different, but different. The Language of Utopia. The one’s that are probably the most important to the book are “stirrings” because it tells you that, that person is growing up. “Newchild” because every community needs to have new life such as a baby. Last but not least the “Receiver…

I chose this quote because it shows that the government in The Giver works hard to make the community a utopia, but there will always be some person that will do something odd or be different from the rest of the community. The scene connects with my answer because the larger group of puzzle pieces represent the community. This is because the community is very simple and they do not understand what Jonas and the Giver go through and the knowledge they have. For example, when Jonas tried to point…

The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community happily following the rules of the community. Everything changes when Jonas is chosen as Receiver of memory in which he will be experiencing learning things that are kept well away from the citizens of the community. Lowry’s characterization of Jonas reveals the importance of freedom through her development of the rules of the community, Jonas’s time with the Giver, and Jonas’s decision to leave the community.…

The Giver Argument Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, there is a 13 year old boy named Jonas living in a community without love, color, weather, and little change at all. He gets chosen to be the Receiver of Memories and receives many memories, including one of love and warmth at Christmastime. He realizes that his community lacks so much, and runs away, taking with him a baby boy named Gabe who was going to be killed because he wasn’t developing as fast as the other babies. They run away to a…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel published in 1993 that explores the idea that through the attempt to create a utopia, it is the impossibility of this mission that often times leads to a dystopia. The story takes place in a “community”, where emotions are controlled through discipline and drugs, and “sameness” takes the place of individuality. While on the surface this community looks appealing, the reader quickly learns all that has to be sacrificed in order to make this “utopia” a…

is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." In "The Giver" by Lois Lowry she explains and gives many similar and oppisite characteristics about both the utopian and the dystopian society. Even though they have a different approach but still kind of the same approach. They still convey the same message. One example of how they are different is how they get there jobs. In the book "The Giver" people don't get to pick out their job, people above them do. Lois Lowry…

luxury. In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, the creators of the community eliminated diversity and the ability to make choices. In addition to removing the options people have on Earth today, the Elders created a world where their authority could not be questioned and the rules would not be challenged. Jonas and the Giver are the only members of the community that have ever questioned the Elders’ authority and challenged the rules. This is because both Jonas and the Giver received memories of…

look, Jonas look,” Jonas looked in the direction Gabe was pointing 2 men in fur coats riding on a 2 legged creature ran to us the men got off the creature and picked us up. One man pulled out a rectangular black box with a speaker much like one in givers room. Listening to the person on the other side of the speaker Jonas heard “Are they ok,” a muffled voice spoke out of the speaker. The man spoke…

The Giver is about an imaginary perfect society, as the book continues on it seems to be more of a dystopia with a controlling government. For people life is a routine activity that rarely changes, like a story mode in a video game. In the United States you can do almost anything as long as it is not harmful. In some ways The Giver society and different but they also have similarities. We both have rules and leaders, but the United States has fewer and less strict rules. Here are…

something to make a change. When you figure out that the restrictions around you have more behind them then it seems that should be a time to take action and make a difference that could be for the better. In the Newbery Award-winning novel, “The Giver”, by Lois Lowry, the lifestyle of the Community is affected by the restrictions set upon them but more importantly how the effects of using precise language, the various rituals, and the many grips of control on the people of the Community that…