Kyle Lowry

set up in the community. When Jonas broke a rule an announcement was made specifically for him and afterwards, “No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse” (Lowry 23). The Committee sees all and when citizens act up an announcement is made to the community in order to correct the wrongs a person made and inform others what not to do. The surveillance in the community is used to perfect citizen’s actions…

more sinister type of literature, which can appeal to young adults more these days. A type of literature that is sullen, yet enticing, and gives young adults the sense of true equality, and what the lack independence can be like. The Giver (Lois Lowry) and Anthem (Ayn Rand), are both great examples of dystopian literature, and appeal to the minds of young adults through giving a sense of what true equality is like, providing interesting plots and characters, and bringing about unpleasant…

Tentative Thesis for Topic #13: Sameness is a central theme in Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver. In her novel, Lowry warns the reader of the danger of conformity by creating a utopian community that operates based on the idea of sameness. This utopian society manipulated people by getting away their right of choices, their emotions, colours, memories of the past, music, and everything that makes them different from each other and makes them to notices other people’s differences. With all of this…

To realists and Naturalists, the social class in which they resided was as strict as the law. Nobody moved up or down, and they were destined to spend their days living in the social hemispheres chosen for them by destiny at the time of their birth. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, a young man in his early twenties moves to a neighborhood on Long Island New York called West Egg. Once there he soon meets his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom, who live across the bay in East Egg,…

The formation of the group is more in task orientation which all twelve jurors have common goal to be achieved. In the movie, the jurors are choice based on difference background and experience and the reason for the teams form is to fulfil his civic duty and social responsibility. The jurors have no relationships between each and other and they will not retain any relationship after the trial. It clearly show the negotiation process is a one off with served the short term purpose. The…

(AGG) Things have been lost, forgotten, and damaged, yet the people in Fahrenheit 451 have always known where these things are, as it is the only thing they care for. (BS-1) They have a desire for possessions which is shown throughout the novel, mostly using technology. (BS-2) Relationships and happiness have been substituted with these material items. (BS-3) Traits that have been lost have been restored once people have been distant from artificial items. (TS) In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the…

A Desirable Place “It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it” (Lowry). In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community is designed to be a utopia, where other people decide fate, and keep the citizens from discovering the truth. In this community, the previous memories are taken away, leaving every citizen the same, no love, color, music, or freedom. The article “Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith, is about a country that lives with endless disaster, sarvation, and it has a weak…

Animal Farm is the Orwell’s least personal of all of his writings. It is due to the unknown narrator who is notable for being prejudiceless and eccentricity. It is the only Orwell’s work where the author is not a major character or a narrator himself. The story is set in an unspecified time period and without many historical references but it is a short allegorical, satirical fable on the political situation around Russian Revolution which was, assumably, the time setting of the story, and it…

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS Sarikhada Pradip Ph.D. English Scholar Rai University, Ahmedabad :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Shashi Deshpande’s novels are strong voice for the women’s cause. In her novels, Women are seen under the patriarchal clutches but her women try to liberate themselves from that suffocating male-dominated environment. This paper explores the themes of…

author, Lois Lowry. Lois has written many novels including Number The Stars, Gathering Blue, Son, Anastasia Krupnik, and A Summer To Die. This quarter our class read The Giver by Lois Lowry and studied it’s concepts. This essay is analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of living with the law of “sameness”, or having the government control everything and everyone. “...what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and we could choose? Instead of sameness.” (124,Lowry)…