Commendation Medal

“We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, beliefs, rituals.” – Randa Abdel-Fattah. We have discovered our past, present, and future in our differences, and without that, we are all the same. The Giver is a science fiction novel by Lois Lowry about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas who believes that he lives in a perfect community. After the important Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas receives a major job with unique…

One of the centralize themes in “The Giver” is obedience. Throughout this novel, Jonas symbolized rebellion in a dystopian society and the author, Lois Lowry, channeled the ugly and realistic truths of the world through Jonas. Lowry exposed her readers to poverty, suicide, euthanasia, violence, and sexually explicit content. She emphasized on the point of the community’s constraints and lack of freedom, the same issues that are faced in today’s society. The members of this dystopian community…

Holes Book report In the book Holes, Stanley, and Zero are the main characters. Stanley went to Camp Green Lake because he stole Priceless’s shoes and it was a punishment. When Stanley got to Camp Green Lake all they did was did holes. And some squid told him that the fifth hole is hard to dig. They fell asleep at nine-o’clock PM and they had to wake up at four-o’clock the next morning to finish their digging their holes. In the beginning of the story Stanley became friends with Zero when he…

Since the beginning of time humans have managed to create natural shelters and settlements to survive. As humankind progressed, society has advanced. The structure of human kind gets more complicated and requires a type of government, law enforcer, and rules. In The Giver by Lois Lowry creates a futuristic society where humans of the community are dehumanized. Dehumanization happens in a dystopia/utopia society. Dehumanization means to take away basic human rights and to not be worthy of…

How many freedoms would you give up for a peaceful society? We cannot give up such rights for a peaceful society. the giver is about all the flaws of what is thought to be a utopia. A young man (Jonas) becomes the receiver of memories and discovers many terrible and wonderful things the old world had, such as animals and color. Jonas decides the community should see these memories he has received from the Giver. Jonas then sets off to escape the society to save a young child that he learns to…

Stanley should no go to Camp Green Lake. I think sending Stanley to Camp Green Lake was a mistake because he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It's like saying he is a thief . Who Just walks with Clyde Livingston's shoes when everyone is panicking about where the shoes are. The first reason is that Camp Green Lake isn’t a Camp, the place is just a cruel punishment.My other reason that Stanley shouldn't go to Camp Green Lake is because most people say it’s a torture Camp.…

Bryan Lee The Giver Final Period: 3 Well-known for its utopian society, The Giver by Lois Lowry is a highly controversial book in primary schools. The Giver is about a “perfect” world where fear, differences, conflict, and pain is eliminated. The simplest way to form this society was to take away the memories that everyone once had. The protagonist, Jonas, is the new Receiver of Memories that has to receive memories of the past from the current Giver. Jonas doesn’t realize that the…

Could you imagine what it would be like if you lived in a world without any color at all? And everything is just the same grey hue? Well, this is the world that Jonas, the main character of The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, lives in. The book, The Giver, is a book where everyone lives in a community, where everything is perfectly controlled. This world is controlled by a group of people called the Elders. In the world that Jonas lives in, it would not fall into the category of utopia. Overall,…

What if everything in life was the same? Well, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, it is. This book is about someone named Jonas who gets his assignment at age 12 as the Receiver of Memories which allows him to see what is outside of the community and realize that not everywhere everything is the same. Jonas sees outside of the community and realizes that the rule of sameness is bad in some spots but also good. There are many advantages and disadvantages. However, sameness is something bad to…

The Orbis Pictus Award is the most prestigious award given to authors that successfully create a nonfiction book for children. The authors are celebrated with this award if their work meets a certain set of criterion – accuracy (of the person/event they focus on), style (interesting and stimulating writing), organization, design (attractive details), and usefulness in the classroom – and only one author is honored with the award each year. The book must be written with the purpose of sharing…