Lois Griffin

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia ¨Is it worth giving up the experience of 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…

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…

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…

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…

The Power of Color In The Giver written during the 1990’s and set in the future, Lois Lowry presents a dystopian novel on a society where everything is the same, but one kid plans to change the whole society. A young man named Jonas that has an ability to see color in a colorless society. After being selected as the new receiver of memories, he realizes how much the society is missing and plans to change it. He plans to leave the society so that everyone can receive the memories he was…

However, no hope lies in a world without freedom. In The Giver and The Truman Show, readers and viewers are introduced with a sharp contradiction, dystopia. The dystopias presented in both the film and the novel evenly picture no freedom whatsoever. Both The Giver and The Truman Show have a controller, an all mighty force who regulates every facet of their dystopia. In the novel, this dystopia is the Giver, the force who does not let his citizens have freedom of thought and alienates them from…

Feed, by M. T. Anderson, is a science fiction novel set in the future, about 100 years ahead of present day. The cast resided in the United States while it was crashing to its demise, unbeknown to the population. In this dystopian country almost all of the citizens have ‘feeds’, an advanced style of the internet, implanted directly into the user’s brain. It has become such a necessity to life that if someone were to live without the feed, they would be seen as an outcast. Feed follows a group of…

Confused World The dystopian society described in the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, makes their world different and unique from others.The similarities in their world does not help them see the difference, and changes in things. The color gray is the only color that the society sees due to color blindness. The people are blinded from many things not only physically, but mentally as well. This characteristic makes the world different from Earth. Jonas is always wondering about what…

In 1993 Louis Lowry writes an apocalyptical novel what is today called The Giver. This novel depicts a clear image on how numb we can be to the world today. The Giver is a novel about a community where everyone is the same; no one or nothing is different. Each member is assigned a certain task to contribute to the wellness of the community at age 12. While every 12 year old gets a normal everyday job, a young boy named Jonas is chosen for an exciting yet painful job. This job provides him with…