Lois Griffin

Government control is everywhere. Whether it’s taxes that are paid when something is bought from a store, or simply going to the local public school. Or, it could be something bigger, such as joining the army. All of these daily activities have some sort of government involvement. In fact, most of life has some form of government control weaved in that isn’t even noticed. It is the government control in our nation that keeps us healthy and safe. Without some form of authority, the world would…

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…

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 away. The giver written by Lois Lowry.Jonas becomes the receiver which means he must be trained by the giver. During this training he must receive memories. This can cause him pain depending on which memories, he is told he is not allowed to take any pain…

who is 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.…

The Giver was written by Lois Lowry and was originally published in 1993. The book follows the story of a twelve year old boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian world, in a place called ‘The Community’. I enjoyed reading this because there was a strong hidden message that carried on throughout the book. As a whole it was intriguing, but I found it slightly confusing because some details didn’t seem to have much of a connection to the overall story. The story takes place in ‘The Community”,…

The Giver Paragraph The novel, The Giver, shows a community with pros and cons. This essay will explain three pros and three cons. The three pros about the community are there is no war, the temperature is controlled to the perfect climate, and the community leaders give the residents everything essential to living for free. The three cons are there are no feelings, the community is built on lies, and the community makes all of your decisions and you don’t get to choose anything. The first pro…

“There could be love. . .” The Giver by Lois Lowry is great book where it shows what love is. This book is science fiction, which means it takes place in the future that’s fiction. In this book Jonas, the receiver in training, is graduating after his twelves to his future life and job. He is scared to what kind of job he might get, or if he will like it or not. Jonas then gets selected as the receiver in training. In this job Jonas’s will be receiving all the past memories of his community for…