Kyle Lowry

go back to the way they were before sameness. First, Jonas was chosen to become the next Receiver of Memory, a job in which his father tells him is the “most important job in the community” (Lowry 67). Throughout his training Jonas was informed that he would be receiving the “memories of the whole world” (Lowry 77). He later learned what The Giver meant when he said those words; Jonas was not only meant to carry the happy memories but also the…

In The Giver, Jonas– a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same– makes very few choices, and because there are no choices, there is no pain, fear, war, or hatred. (cc) People do what they are told to do, so they look like they live in a predictable way doing things without questioning why they should be done. (cp) Their society is so bland, that they cannot even see colors! (cp) Jonas embarks on a journey to leave the community and end this type of “Blandness life”…

The Giver was written by Lois Lowry in the year 1993. The Giver was a huge sensation to young adults. Lois Lowry has received many awards for her book. The greatest achievement for The Giver was The John Newbery Medal in 1994. Other medal awarded to Lois Lowry was the Regina Medal, William Allen White Award, and the American Library Association Award. The Giver has a presumptous plot. The story takes place sometime in the future in an utopian community. In the Utopian community,…

have many differences, along with many similarities, some of which including the location of the towns, and even the main conflict. Both stories have many similarities and differences in characters. In The Giver, Jonas relies on many other people (Lowry 67), yet in The Hunger Games Katniss relies on nobody, in the Games Katniss realizes that Peeta may have left her for the stronger tributes (Collins 165). After realizing this, she hunts and traps on her own. Yet they are similar in that they…

Can you imagine the world without color? The book The Giver is about a world without color, memories, pain, feeling and no weather. The Giver is about a 12-year old named Jonas who becomes the receiver of memories and then he escapes with a baby, Gabriel to go to another community. The line between public safety and personal freedoms should be drawn on the side of personal freedoms. In The Giver’s community, there is no color, babies are assigned to families and there is no love. The community…

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the transfer of memories are significantly diverse to the way we are accustomed to. The process of how memories are transmitted between The Giver and The Receiver of Memory, Jonas, proves this polarity greatly. Some of which is evidently portrayed in the novel through a combination of genetic, spiritual, technological, and magical processes. For example, Jonas’s genetical composition plays a significant role in the transfer of memories since this can be comprehended…

ceremony, the Naming, the Nurturers brought the newchildren to the stage. (Lowry 36) In fact, this quote supports my thesis and my topic sentence by stating that this dystopia does not even let parents choose their own childrens names. 2 “But to be honest, Jonas,” his father said, “for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your ceremony. Because I was already fairly sure of what my Assignment was going to be.”(Lowry 34) Actually, this quote supports my opinion by stating…

At the beginning of the book Jonas was just like any other kid his age. He is completely unaware of the gruesome inhumane things that are happening in his community, “I’m feeling apprehensive,”...”I know there’s really nothing to worry about”(Lowry, 1993, p.12) This shows how Jonas knows that he is a normal person and he should have no reason to think that anything out of the ordinary would happen to him. Also at the exposition, cared about the community and its well being. He loved to be a…

A World Can Never be Perfect Would a society that requires it citizens to be “burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot” (Vonnegut 1) be a Utopian society? The Giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, introduces Jonas, a Twelve, who lives in an idyllic community where everything is planned out. Jonas, as the Receiver of Memory, experiences the memories the Giver transmits to him. He discovers how wrong his community has been. The community failed when Jonas found out what the community had…

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared,” Lois Lowry wrote in the book The Giver (154). The characters in this book live in a futuristic community that has eliminated everything causing pain. For example, there are strict rules governing rudeness, so the community does not allow community members to ask any question that will make anyone feel different. The characters do not feel emotions, or love, so they never feel hurt or…