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Utopian worlds do not work and will eventually fail. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the Chief Elders build a community to protect people from the real world. Jonas receives the job of becoming the Receiver and works with the Giver who gives him memories. Jonas realizes that feelings and making your own choices are good and people should have the right to do that. Jonas runs away from the community and sets free the memories. Jonas realizes that the life the community is living is not a…

Jonas is a dynamic protagonist in The Giver. Jonas is an average 11 year old boy with dark, short hair, pale eyes, and he is relatively fit. In the novel, Lowry describes Jonas’ physical traits directly. However, she describes his personality indirectly through how other people view him and how he acts. Jonas has two main friends, but there is no true social hierarchy. Compared to the others his age in the story Jonas has stronger, more confusing emotions. Jonas’ purpose in The Giver is to show…

When the elders of the community first set up their rules and regulations and put people into jobs without their consent and took away their rights, they highlighted one of the biggest issues in the community. The council of elders attempted to create a utopian society, but instead, they created a false utopia, so the community was torn apart. Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas believes his community is a false utopia because of their lack of choice, lack of diversity, and their decision to…

In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a world of conformity. When Jonas became the new Receiver, he was presented with memories from years past, pleasant and troubling. Jonas quickly realized that conformity gives you some favorable options such as, security and respect, but, he longs for more, such as love, hope, and, individuality. Jonas travels beyond the community, the only home he has ever known, to Elsewhere, where he can set his burdening memories free and find a better…

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…

What is being an individual about? Lois Lowry knows being an individual is causing you to see differently. The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry tells about a boy who is selected to be the new “Receiver of Memory”. By being selected Jonas must receive the memories from The Giver the previous “Receiver of Memories”, but he soon realizes that his community is not what he thought it was. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that being an individual…

On August 11 the world lost Howard Brody, a physics professor who worked at the University of Pennsylvania. He died at the age of 83 and left behind a series of findings that made him known as “the world’s foremost physicist of tennis,” as said by Margalit Fox in her NY Times article. Howard focused his professional work on particle physics until the size of a tennis racket caused him to investigate the sport even further. He was specifically curious about how the tennis ball would hit the…

In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the point of view is in one of the main protagonist named Jonas. Jonas lives in a “perfect world”. He is soon selected to become one of the most important jobs in the community which is The New Receiver of Memory. He is not to tell anyone about this job and the training that goes apart with it. He soon faces trouble between wanting to share these new things he learns or keeping it a secret like he is suppose to. He also sees all the flaws this “perfect…

The symbols in the giver and in the Truman show has similarities but more differences than they do similarities. In the giver some of the symbols are the apple which means knowledge and they also have the sled which means freedom in the giver. Although some things in the Truman show that are different symbols than in how giver that are the plane or the light that fell meaning where he was was fake. In both the giver and the Truman show red meant love and feeling while water meant death and…

Imagine what it is like to live in a community with no color, no feeling, and no music. Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, shows the life of a boy, Jonas who lives in a place where color, feeling, and music do not exist. In his whole life, Jonas has no idea what it is like to feel something. However, Jonas soon learns about the community’s deep secret as he spends time with the Giver. He has experienced the real world, the one with true color, feeling, and music. This novel reveals that the memory…