Kyle Lowry

hold on children’s literature for many decades both Louis Lowry and Ayn Rand have not only written works, The Giver and Anthem, that address the dangers of special interest groups encroaching on the education and literacy of children, but also their works address the individualism, collectivism, martyrdom and precision of words. Addressing subjects like collectivism and individualism with children seems like an insurmountable endeavor, but Lowry and Rand show through…

“Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.” In the story, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and the article, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, both main characters are poised as hero’s. In The Giver, Jonas is selected as the receiver of memory. After many months of training, Jonas’s realizes that there is more beyond what he has learned in his community. He learns about family, music, and most of all, love. Jonas…

Point of view is important to a text because it shapes meanings and shows how it develops throughout a story. In John Updike's short story, "A & P," the point of view is written in first person from the perspective of Sammy. This allows the reader a limited amount of knowledge since they do not know the minds of the other characters. In “A&P,” point of view helps shape meaning because Sammy is an unreliable teenage narrator that views adults as “sheep” who conform to the society that surrounds…

By taking the aspects of life that create differences between people, life becomes dull. There is no choice what job you get, what clothes you wear, or the family you have. For example, in the book The Giver by Lowis Lowry, you are assigned a job, family, and an appearance. With this system, you don’t get to pick what you do or whom you live with. You could get stuck with a job you have an interest in or don’t possess the skill set that is required to complete the…

When kids grow up in “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, everyone in the community is the same. Every December, everyone has the same birthday and gets the same gift. Everyone is a year older at the same time. No one singled out; no one left out. It’s all the same. When someone gets an year older it means they are getting to be a part of the community and becoming more mature. Even the land is the same--flat. In the book, Jonas is part of this community where everybody is the same, everything…

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, their community has an unbiased society where everyone must be fair, and differences are not allowed. For example everyone in the community must have a specific purpose in the community even at a young age.If you don't have any purpose in the society there is no need for you.But in reality their “ideal” society turns out to be flawed. And soon enough things start to change, the community turns into more of a dystopia rather than a utopia. Jonas and the Giver two…

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Importance of Memory Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman is a worldwide famous film that makes its audience question the importance of our memories and the identity that these memories create for us. It is a film that toys with the possibility of erasing hurtful and unwanted thoughts from one’s mental record. Memories and experiences are the very things that make us who we are. Without the recollection of our past…

Dystopian novels and series is the type of fiction that interests many readers today, such as The Giver, by Lois Lowry. In this story, Jonas, the protagonist and narrator, is living in an orderly community in the future that runs on a strict set of rules. The book was published in 1993, and like any great book a film adaptation was filmed, and released about a year ago. Like any book and its film adaptation, there are some differences. In The Giver, some major differences included the age of…

Ender and Jonas both come from two different settings, yet they still have similar challenges and take similar paths.In ender’s game written by Orsen Scott Card ,Ender must go through a difficult training at the same age as Jonas- twelve. In Ender’s training he must fight in a three dimensional, zero gravity arena. He gets shot at by special guns, which paralyse his suit and often get’s hurt.Ender is also isolated from the rest of his group and as soon as he starts making friends he is moved…

the receiver of the community's memories, Jonas finds out about the dangerous truths about his community's secret past. Now that he has the knowledge, Jonas realizes that he must escape from their world to protect himself and those he loves. Lois Lowry wrote The Giver because she wanted her audience to think about how much different it would be compared to our world and she wanted us to be drawn to all the emotions that Jonas and The Giver went through knowing everything that they did. In The…