Kyle Lowry

The giver is a book written by Lois Lowry, the giver was first published in the USA in 1993and in 1994 in Great Britain. The giver is a science fiction-type novel about a boy named Jonas who lives a so-called perfect world where everything is controlled by strict rules and everything is the same. This novel questions what is right or wrong for society, and how differences and choices make life good. The title comes from the friend Jonas finds in his instructor (the giver). Jonas is assigned to…

control the community by limiting their ability to live a normal life; The people are not allowed to express their feelings and emotions. This quote shows that perfection is not perfect: “‘If everything's the same, then there aren’t any choices!” (Lowry 97). This quote suggests that there is no such thing as perfection. The council of elders tries to make everything perfect by restricting people's choices. This made Jonas unhappy with his community because he wanted to make decisions on his own.…

The Giver is a dystopian novel written by lois lowry. I also got the chance to see the movie part in school. I think that the movie adaptation was weak . Think that the producers did a great job. Overall i think that the adaptation to The Giver was weak. The producers of the movie added some characters. I think that some of these characters were not needed. Some characters were that fiona was not a nurturer in the book. I think that this was a good change because it made more sense that Jonas…

beauty and joy and love in order to end pain and suffering?¨ - The Giver In 1992, Lois Lowry visited her father at a nursing home in Virginia. Her father was losing his memory. When Lowry showed her father a picture of her sister who had died, her father had forgotten her name, and also his daughters death. Lowry's mother on the other had remembered everything about that devastating loss. This situation made Lowry wonder ¨What would it be like to live in her father's world, where all painful…

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a society free of hatred, memories, or individuality as a person. At age twelve, each child gets assigned roles that they will receive training on to eventually become productive members of society. In the beginning of the book, Jonas has complete trust and respect for his parents until the Giver shows Jonas’ father killing the baby, and disposing of the body through a garbage chute. When Jonas sees this, he can’t but help lose trust in his…

In Lois Lowry’s story The Giver, Jonas becomes the receiver of memory. He is the most important factor of the community. The Receiver gets all of the old memories from the old world. The memories can include pain, suffering, joy, or, happiness. He will soon know what it takes to become the receiver and how it will mature him. In the beginning, Jonas was quite responsible for his age of eleven. He was different than the other community members though. All of his friends knew what they wanted to…

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…

Throughout the book The Giver Jonas was given huge responsibilities being chosen as the Receiver of Memory and having the fate of his community in his hand. Living in a community where you have no say in how you live your life, who you marry, who your kids are, or where you work must be hard and quite honestly it couldn’t be considered living, so discovering who you are in this environment must be impossible. But Jonas discovered and understood why he wasn’t the same as the others in his…

structures, Jonas shows how important his individuality and independence is to him when “… for the first time, [he] did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away” (Lowry 129). In addition, both of Jonas’ parents demonstrate resistance to the patriarchal values that circulate their community. Jonas’ mother, who has the position of judge, expresses her frustration at having to punish a repeat offender. She chafes…

if you lived in a world free of war, fear, or pain? Where everything is perfect and under control? What if you did not have the freedom to make your own choices? What can we learn about the importance of individuality by reading The Giver by Lois Lowry? The dystopian novel follows the life of a young teenage boy, Jonas, and his impact on the area he lives in, called the Community. In the Community, everything is perfect. Jonas’s lives, and all of his community members’, are free of choices. It…