Commendation Medal

Imagine a place where no one has blood related family members, everyone is assured a long, safe, and peaceful life, and everyone’s futures were decided by council members. In other words, that 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…

How many freedoms would you give up for a peaceful society? In The Giver, the author fills our imaginations with a community where color, emotions, and choices of your own are nowhere to be found. The Giver is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas, who lives in the emotionless, colorless place called The Community. Twelves are given jobs on their communal birthday, but instead of receiving a job, Jonas starts his training with a man called The Giver, to become the new Receiver of Memory, which…

Rationale My Written Assignment is based on the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, which deals with the main character’s desire and struggle for freedom in his life that he is not able to have in the dystopian society he lives in. Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce new children, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs in which everyone obeys. The community is a preciously choreographed world…

There are many reason it would be a good idea to live in the community, even though not all things are pleasant such as the discipline wand and releasing those who fail, there are still many positive things in the community you can benefit from. I would want to live in the society from The Giver. The main reasons why it would be a good idea to live in the community from The Giver because there would be so many new experiences, multiple surprises, and you can have a perfect happy life. It would…

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.…

That’s where his running career started. Him and his friends, Harambe and Bob, trained to become the first rabbit runners. But only Wiggles made it to the professional level. Wiggles got accepted the World Cup three times in a row but has never won a medal while running. This was the biggest race he’s been too. The race was Africa, the home of the animals. Wiggles saw his shoes were old and he needed new ones. So he went and bought the best Nike shoes there were. Then Wiggles hops on a…

amazing accomplishment secured gold for Team USA. Her coach describes this amazing accomplishment buy saying “ Shrug mustard courage that few have shown in the Olympic history, bolted the US women's gymnastics team and their first ever Olympic gold-medal” (UXL Biographies 1). This amazing success pasted 18 year old Strugs face over pretty much every newspaper in the world.. One of the newspapers shared that Strug throught “ The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to…

Is there ever such a thing as a utopia or perfect world? In The Giver, the Committee of Elders try to create a utopia. Sameness is highly valued. After the Ceremonies, when they get their assignments, ended in December, differences are celebrated in the community. Jonas is a person who got his assignment. However, when Jonas’ training begins, he learns that there is more than what is in the community. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns that without memories, knowledge is useless,…

“You get, you give”(97), from The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli, means that you share your fortune with others to spread hope and kindness, so that allies and friends are made wherever one goes; the main character, Dom Napoli, shares his money and food generously and often, meeting friends at the same time. When Dom first arrives in Manhattan, he meets a “tough guy” in a alleyway that he tries to sleep in, and sees the boy chased away by the police later that evening. The next day,…

The Giver, a story about Jonas, a boy given the the career of Receiver of Memory, but will he want it? In the community he was raised in, there was no freedom, no happiness, and they feel nothing. They live in a life not even knowing what love is, what religion is, what color is. I disagree with the fact they are living without love, religion, and color. They are treated like dolls in a dollhouse, trapped and most never will leave. Love is something everyone has. It might not be forever…